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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
Photographs courtesy of Hasty Pudding Theatricals
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
Portrait by Lærke Rose
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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(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
At last, an opportunity for the coronavirus-affected classes to proceed into Tercentenary Theatre and partake of the festival rites
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The coronavirus short-circuited their Commencement. Harvard plans a do-over.
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.
