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An acute casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic
5.26.20
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Photograph courtesy of Ceridwen DoveyHow Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
Clockwise from top left: Stephen Cook, Albert Fishlow, Helen Vendler, and Margaret Kivelson.
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and SciencesThe Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four alumni whose contributions to society emerged from their study at Harvard.
An acute casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Tests in macaques show robust protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus induced by either vaccines or natural infection.
Essential workers at highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection include cab drivers and police officers.
Photograpy by iStockNearly half of early COVID-19 transmission was work-related—a cautionary note as the economy reopens.
Evelynn Hammonds and Paul Farmer
A conversation on health disparities, with Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds
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A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more
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Ceridwen Dovey
Photograph courtesy of Ceridwen DoveyHow Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Our favorite stories on the legal minds reshaping American law
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(1 of 3) Exhibits, like this replica of a textile-mill floor, reveal long days of grueling work on dangerous mill machinery.Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Work & Culture
Woonsocket’s historic French-Canadian community
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
Bright-red clackers helped public-health degree candidates promote hand-washing on Commencement morning in 2019.
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Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.
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The author is first row, second from left; Professor Mel Chen is second row, second from right.
Screenshot courtesy of Julie Chung“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
A YouTube screenshot from the author’s virtual lab course
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2021 U.S. budget, pre-COVID-19: add a few trillion dollars of debt
Photograph by Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesThe politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories
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Erin McDermott
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard Public Affairs and Communications, Harvard UniversityMcDermott will join Harvard from the University of Chicago July 1.
With 2020 winter sports ending early and the spring collegiate season wiped out almost entirely, we look back at some Crimson highlights from past years.
Senior forward Chris Lewis led the Crimson in rebounding, en route to an All-Ivy League Second Team selection.
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Injuries—and the coronavirus—lead to disappointing basketball seasons.
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Ceridwen Dovey
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACWidener Library’s overlooked designer
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(1 of 7) The St. Louis, Missouri, skyline on the Mississippi River, as seen from East St. Louis, IllinoisPhotograph by Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
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Deans articulate their diverse faculties’ divergent priorities (and problems)—plus an MIT perspective
So close: the Allston science and engineering complex, shown on April 9, where the final stages of construction have been halted during the coronavirus pandemic
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As the pandemic halts construction, the move-in schedule for the fall semester has slipped.
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The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2021 U.S. budget, pre-COVID-19: add a few trillion dollars of debt
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The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it
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The new dean has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Nitin Nohria
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Nitin Nohria, scheduled to step down June 30, will remain dean through 2020.
Students transition to online learning—perhaps for the rest of the semester—and are asked not to return after spring break.
Choi and supporters gathered at the New York state capitol last year to urge passage of new driver’s license legislation.
Photograph courtesy of the New York Immigration Coalition
Steven Choi, J.D. ’04, works—and fights—at the vitriolic epicenter of immigration politics.