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Tom Hanks
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The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.
Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.
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New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
Ophelia Dahl
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The human rights advocate co-founded Partners In Health in 1987.
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
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New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
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Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
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As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”
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Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
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Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Henry Clarke Warren, 1879
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
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Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
Alejandro Montagna (center) wearing in his webbed wingsuit, preparing to fly
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Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph
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Caring for your home
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Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property
Digital reconstruction of tiles showing Richard the Lionheart and Saladin
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A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.
A glimpse of the shops and restaurants across from the town green
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Visiting America’s first formal law school
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Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.
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Adrian Piper 2014, National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo.
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.
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An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
Wendell Steavenson
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A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
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Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
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Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
Alejandro Montagna (center) wearing in his webbed wingsuit, preparing to fly
Photograph courtesy of Alejandro Montagna
Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph
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Henry Clarke Warren, 1879
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
Photograph by istock and altered by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
Research
New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
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The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
Logo courtesy of Salata Institute; solar panel photograph by Unsplash
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
Landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom M.L.A. ’06
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Moderator Emily Channell-Justice (left) with retired ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
A former ambassador to Ukraine offers her perspective on the conflict
The rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s
Image courtesy of Felipe Pereda
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
A project to help physicians in Ukraine
ArtLords covered Kabul’s concrete blast walls with brightly colored murals denouncing corruption and promoting peace and human rights. This one depicted the famous handshake that followed the signing of the United States-Taliban agreement in February 2020 to end the war in Afghanistan and withdraw American troops.
Photograph courtesy of ArtLords
Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars
Illustration by Nathan Daniels
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
Romanian children in a Bucharest orphanage, circa 1995
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Neglected children’s neurodevelopmental impairments persist into young adulthood.
