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Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
12.7.21
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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
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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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Rudy Ruiz
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Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
Graphic illustrations helped sensationalize the case.
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Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media
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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.
The Conquering Hero: Harvard quarterback Luke Emge was only 14-for-32 passing but was at his best at crunch time, leading the Crimson to their last-minute, go-ahead score.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonHarvard wins The Game in emphatic fashion.
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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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Provincetown’s winter harbor
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During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily Scherlis
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
“/Gaishay focusing the camera,” a photograph taken during a 1957-58 ethnographic expedition in Namibia.
Photograph is a gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM2001.29.15489
Seeking mentorship as a student of color, and finding a calling in the arts
Artificial-intelligence researcher Joy Buolamwini dons a white mask in the film Coded Bias to make herself visible to facial recognition software.
Film still by 7th Empire Media
Data journalist Meredith Broussard on “the civil-rights issue of our time”
The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
Photograph courtesy of Che R. Applewhaite
The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library Archives
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A still from The Painter and the Thief
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Coolidge Corner Theater offers small-group rentals.
Photograph courtesy of Coolidge Corner Theater
Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.
Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
Photograph by Jeffrey Sturges
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum