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Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, and the opinion in the SFFA case
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The anti-affirmative action group continues to seek Supreme Court review of Harvard policies.
Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
The University’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate takes effect December 8.
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Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
A sample of Physarum polycephalum sends out slimy, finger-like tendrils to sense information about its petri dish environment.
Image courtesy of Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University, and Wyss Institute at Harvard University
A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.
Illustration by John Tomac
Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
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Illustration by Angelo Dolojan
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
Photographs courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Enriching life at the Houses
Harvard Yard
Photograph by Meena Venkataramanan
A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Gold; photo collage by Niko Yaitanes
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in Bismya; or The Lost City of Adab
University of Chicago Library’s Electronic Open
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945
Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield Museums
Art, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in central Massachusetts
From left: V (formerly Eve Ensler), Idina Menzel, and Diane Paulus
courtesy of the A.R.T.
Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage
The 1850 former arsenal that now houses the armory museum
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
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Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
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Reginald Dwayne Betts performs Felon: A play; A discourse during a virtual lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment
Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
Jason Bouldin in his studio
Photograph by Thad Lee
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
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First aid: Helped by the block of wideout Kym Wimberly (1) on Lafayette defensive back Shaikyi Hannah, Harvard running back Aidan Borguet churns goalward. Borguet piled up 169 yards and scored twice.
Photograph by Mairead B. Baker/The Harvard Crimson
The Crimson men overpower Lafayette.
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Over the goal: Harvard junior running back Aaron Shampklin eludes the desperate lunge of Cornell's Kenan Clarke to score the clinching touchdown. It was Shampklin's second score of the day and sixth of the season.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz
Harvard remains undefeated with a win over Cornell.
Big leg: A master of placement as well as power, Sot led the Ivies in punting in 2019 with a 42.3-yard average, highlighted by an almost surreal 76-yard boot against Holy Cross.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics Communications
Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.
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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
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Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
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(1 of 3) President and deans applaud the graduates.
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Commencement
Harvard’s second, more expansive online graduation, with honorands and more
6.9.21
Opportunities in admissions, online degrees, research, and more
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands, clockwise from top left: Lotte Bailyn, John Hutchinson, Marvin Kalb, and Margaret McIntosh
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For graduate studies that contributed to society
A freshman year unlike any other, memorialized in the Class of 2024 tee.
Couresy of Tyler Nilson
Class spirit (the shirt), recyclable regalia, Zoom primal scream
An honorable tradition resumes, virtually.
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(1 of 3) President and deans applaud the graduates.
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Harvard’s second, more expansive online graduation, with honorands and more
Pictured (from left): Lawrence S. Bacow and Kevin Young
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Harvard holds its first virtual alumni association annual meeting—with a powerful guest speaker.
Melinda French Gates
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A panel on achieving gender equity, and a conversation with Radcliffe Medalist Melinda French Gates
The directors of Harvard Medical School's master's programs congratulate the graduates at the conclusion of the degree ceremony.
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A sampler of wisdom shared at Harvard’s graduate and professional school Commencement ceremonies
Ruth J. Simmons, the guest speaker
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The Morning Exercises—further adapted for the era of COVID and streaming—come with strong messages about racial justice.
Clockwise from top left: Frances H. Arnold, Salman Khan, Margaret H. Marshall, Martin Baron, Anna Deavere Smith, Sebastião Salgado, and Arlie R. Hochschild
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A Nobel-winning chemist, a documentary dramatist and a photojournalist, a preeminent news editor, and more
Jeremy Lin
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A former NBA star and a U.S. Senator speak to new graduates.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (clockwise from top left: Lotte Bailyn, John Hutchinson, Marvin Kalb, and Margaret McIntosh
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Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
