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Marty Baron
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During an era of shrinking newspapers and political attacks on journalism, The Washington Post’s editor will be honored.
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(1 of 5) Edwin Olsen and Blake Clark, The Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston, Decorative and Historical, 1926
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An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.
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(1 of 5) Edwin Olsen and Blake Clark, The Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston, Decorative and Historical, 1926
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An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.
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Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.
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The right to rule depends not only on the way power is gained, but how it is wielded.
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Elizabeth Banks smiled and waved to the crowd along the parade route.
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Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt received this year’s honors.
Caroline Tervo ’18 researched North Carolina politics—at the local craft brewery, at Olive Garden, and at IHOP.
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Undergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
A professor arrested, gift-giving guidelines, and an update on the graduate-student union
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Ken Liu
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Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
Loeb House, where the University’s governing boards, the Corporation and Board of Overseers, convene
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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Contra dancing, Balkan music, sea chanteys—and more!
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
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Ken Liu
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Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
Courtesy of the Bruce Museum
Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Matt “Happy” Gilmore smiles behind the wheel. Zamboni-driving takes focus, but Gilmore says that he loves waving to children in the crowd and making their day.
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Harvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice
Mind the net: Sophomore goalie Lindsay Reed, flanked by teammates Ali Peper (13) and Nicki Lutschaunig (12), homes in on a speeding puck during a January win against Union College. Last year, Reed averaged more than 30 saves per game.
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The many saves of a six-foot goalie
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Are you eligible to carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?
Samuel Eliot Morison
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Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
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Pippa Norris puts America’s flagging democracy in global context.
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Elisa New began teaching online humanities courses in 2013.
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Literature professor Elisa New spearheads an online poetry course for talented students in underserved high schools.
Online summer programs get students ready for inclusive M.B.A., J.D., and M.Ed. studies.
In 2017, then-Harvard president Drew Faust and Harvard Law School professor Annette Gordon-Reed unveiled a monument dedicated to people enslaved by law school benefactor Isaac Royall Jr.
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The president announces a $5-million initiative.
Graduate student union protesters, May 2019
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After more than a year negotiating, the union sets a deadline of December 3.
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
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Harvard professional schools help their incoming students thrive.
Are data from massive open online courses a crystal ball into the future of online education?
Data from Science Magazine/Chart by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Stephen M. Kosslyn, of Minerva, has pioneered in applying the science of learning to design a new core curriculum and technologically based pedagogy.
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Lessons old and new at the annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference
