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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Photograph by Keith Tolman
A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Jorge Dominguez
Photograph by Paul Marotta/Getty Images
The former government professor was found to have engaged in sexual harassment for nearly 40 years.
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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Photograph by Keith Tolman
A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Byerly Hall
Photograph by Kevin Grady
Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsHarvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
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A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
Photograph by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Sarah Lewis
Photograph by Melissa BlackallAt a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Accidental comics writer Amy Chu
Image courtesy of Amy ChuGraphic novelist Amy Chu
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Poster courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Ephemera Collection (AR.EP.PS.0669)Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
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Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
Photograph courtesy of the Hill School Archives
Brief life of a theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
The Watchers
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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A guide to the arts and culture, history, cuisine, and natural beauty of Cambridge, Boston, and beyond.
Log-based cavities host nesting bees at the Arnold Arboretum.
Photograph by Jessica Lau
Greater Boston’s bee cultures
Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
Last year, ArtWeek featured “art in the dark” projections on Boston Common.
Photographs courtesy of ArtWeek
ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.
A serene and snowy moment in historic Portland
Photograph courtesy of Corey Templeton Photography
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
A miniature version of a New England high-post bed (ca. 1750-1765), with historically accurate bed furnishings by Natalie Larson
Object on loan courtesy of Natalie and Bruce Larson
Photograph courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
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