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Harvard prepares for yet another pandemic-influenced spring term.
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Harvard prepares for a pandemic-influenced spring term.
Srikant M. Datar, HBS’s eleventh dean
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Dean Datar on the future of business and society in a digital era
Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
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Conceptual illustration of neural networks in the human brain.
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Harvard researchers uncover powerful association between EBV and MS, raising hopes for prevention or a cure.
Illustration by Blair Kelly
High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk
Illustration by Eva Vazquez
Inequities threaten the long-term health of cities
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Noah Kirkwood
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In an injury-filled season, Harvard’s best player assumes a new role.
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner
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The parade, roasts, and performances return to Harvard Square.
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Illustration by Angelo Dolojan
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
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Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
A “pause” after winning four seats in recent elections
Drew Faust chaired the committee on principles for de- or renaming.
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Faust-led committee addresses building and professorship naming decisions “profoundly antithetical” to present values.
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Wellness and physical fitness destinations in the Cambridge area and beyond
The impressive two-tiered modern interior of the Armenian Museum of America
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A museum reflects an ancient civilization and the modern global diaspora.
View of the exhibit “Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping”
Photograph by Awa Mally/courtesy of Walker Art Center
Candice Lin’s otherworldly refuge
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Robert E. Lee in repose at Washington & Lee University
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How alumni shaped the General’s post-war reputation.
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Claire Dickson
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Singer-songwriter Claire Dickson '19 releases debut album inspired by the tundra
Rudy Ruiz
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Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
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Cameron Brate ’14
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A trio of Crimson tight ends have a shot to reach the Super Bowl.
Noah Kirkwood
Photograph by Gil Tabot
In an injury-filled season, Harvard’s best player assumes a new role.
Bulldog Backbreaker: Wideout Kym Wimberly hauls in Luke Emge’s third-down, last-seconds, no-timeouts pass to secure Harvard’s thrilling 31-27 victory in The Game.
Photograph by Nathan Klima
The Crimson's final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.
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Robert E. Lee in repose at Washington & Lee University
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How alumni shaped the General’s post-war reputation.
Professors’ humble beginnings, concentration choices, and a mini history of Harvard and Radcliffe presidents
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Charles Duhigg at home.
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Charles Duhigg unpacks how business and finance—and you—really work.
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Hu believes a plant-based diet can help feed a growing population in a healthy, sustainable way.
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Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
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Robert E. Lee in repose at Washington & Lee University
Photograph in the public domain
How alumni shaped the General’s post-war reputation.
Professors’ humble beginnings, concentration choices, and a mini history of Harvard and Radcliffe presidents
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7Artwork by Rosa M. Towne and photograph by Edward Tabor
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
Always a close observer of ant species, E.O. Wilson became a molecular scientist as well in the 1950s.
Photograph by Hugh Patrick Brown/Getty Images
How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson
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Image courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Harvard’s clocks and the standardization of time