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Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
4.5.19
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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
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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.
Modern psychiatrists revived the effort to link mental illness to biology, begun in the 1840s by scientists like Emil Kraepelin.
Photograph Wikipedia/Public Domain
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
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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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Seafood ceviche at Celeste, in Somerville
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An eclectic array of favored restaurants in Greater Boston
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
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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.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
Photograph courtesy of Shore Fire Media
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
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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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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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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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David Davidson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
The nine-foot-high depiction of Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870, by sculptor Jon Hair, is the first statue of an individual on the University of South Carolina’s central campus. Its unveiling on February 21 coincided with the inauguration of a symposium in Greener’s honor.
Photograph courtesy of the Office of Communications & Public Affairs, University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.
At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.
Photographs by Lydia Carmichael
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
Alain Locke in an undated photograph
Photograph courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more
