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Emma Dench, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Photograph coutresy of Harvard University
Harvard continues to change with the coronavirus.
Indoor gatherings increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Art by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; images by iStock.
Seasonality and SARS-CoV-2
The Engine’s logo
Courtesy MIT
Neighboring institutions collaborate in a venture-capital firm seeing to tackle tough technological challenges.
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In a year like no other, read a selection of Harvard Magazine stories on the forces that will shape the presidential election outcome.
Indoor gatherings increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Art by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; images by iStock.
Seasonality and SARS-CoV-2
Caroline Buckee
Anonymized location data can help guide strategies for protecting public health in a pandemic.
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Professor of government Dustin Tingley (bottom right), faculty director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduces HILT conference panelists (clockwise from top left): Sherri Ann Charleston, Anthony Jack, María Luisa Parra, and Clint Smith.
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The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference considers classroom inclusion and equity.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Harvard professional schools continue (mostly) online learning during the next semester—and other indicators for 2021.
Michael Fabiano, A.L.M. ’16, in the AP newsroom.
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The AP’s Michael Fabiano on the 2020 election
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Colorful bow ties from The Andover Shop
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Harvard Square venues offer warmth, cheer, and appetizing fare.
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Armenian Heritage Park
Photograph by Yerevanci/Wikipedia/Creative Commons
Scavenger-hunting in historic Boston
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Photograph by Fabrizio Amoroso/Aperture
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.
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In 2012, Colton Chapple ’13 threw five touchdowns in Harvard's 39-34 loss to Princeton. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
An all-time performance in an all-time loss
Charles Brickley
Photo collage by Harvard Magazine/JC. Photograph in the public domain.
A Harvard great with an all-time boot
Eighteen seasons after his final reception for the Crimson, Morris still has a firm hold on almost every significant Harvard pass-catching record. Photograph by Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images
2000-02: a Crimson Wide Receiver's Fab Four
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Master Yon Lee leads a beginner tai chi course on the MAC Quad.
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC
The healing of Master Yon Lee
Photograph courtesy of W. Todd Groce
A Civil War image and an Empire State Building homage
From the archives
Photograph by Amélie Benoist/Science Source
Daniela Lamas and the practice of post-ICU care
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Fine particle pollution, like that generated by coal-burning power plants, has been linked to increases in neurological disease.
Photograph by Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution.
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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
Roosevelt Class No. 560.3, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
Harvard Magazine’s coverage of the University’s expanding global reach
Protestors demonstrate against president-elect Donald Trump on November 13, 2016, in Philadelphia.
Photograph by Mark Makela/Getty Images
Historian Alexander Keyssar on why the unpopular institution has prevailed
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Archives
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
