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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.
Screen capture by Harvard Magazine/LGThe Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference considers classroom inclusion and equity.
Harvard professional schools continue (mostly) online learning during the next semester—and other indicators for 2021.
Fine particle pollution, like that generated by coal-burning power plants, has been linked to increases in neurological disease.
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Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution.
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Fine particle pollution, like that generated by coal-burning power plants, has been linked to increases in neurological disease.
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Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution.
Professors David Keith and Daniel Schrag
Some changes cannot be stopped, but reflecting sunlight back into space could slow their pace
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Economic damage makes a compelling argument for robust federal policies to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
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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.
Screen capture by Harvard Magazine/LGThe Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference considers classroom inclusion and equity.
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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
In college, Mark Erickson returned to his birthplace, capturing his experience in photographs such as those shown here, all taken in Hanoi. This is “Schoolchildren Playing Cards.”
Photograph by and courtesy of Mark Erickson
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
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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.
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Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
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Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
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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.
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The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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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.
Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.
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Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
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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
Armenian Heritage Park
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Scavenger-hunting in historic Boston
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Master Yon Lee leads a beginner tai chi course on the MAC Quad.
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The healing of Master Yon Lee
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July-August 2003
Letters
SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
Treasure
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...
In this Issue
A vibrant democracy depends upon important foundations: adequate socioeconomic conditions, elite commitment, some consensus within the society...
Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraq amassed about $100 billion in debt. This estimate is rough, and it will be months before the details about...
Science is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often...
"I have not wandered very far afield," wrote Henry Francis du Pont, A.B. 1903, in his fiftieth reunion report. With characteristic...
Lehner’s front photogrammetric elevation of the Great Sphinx. Below: As seen in a north elevation, weathered limestone and bedrock form the Sphinx’s head and upper body. Photogrammetric elevations by Mark Lehner
Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.
Humberto started to pace back and forth across the floor of the cinder-block home, cradling his son in his arms. There had to be a story. In...
Letters
SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...
Right Now
Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. Ironically...
Imagine: A complete stranger promises a brand-new digital camera if you'll send $100. Once the check clears, you're told, the camera will be in...
A century ago, psychoanalysts declared that the human personality was largely fixed by age five. More recently, biologically oriented...
The 1995 truck bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City hastened a revolution in urban design and planning. Architectural terms...
When Monet's Impression Sunrise, a sensuous if sleepy painting of Le Havre's harbor, debuted in 1874, it enraged critics. They abhorred the...
New England Regional
Last fall, World War II veteran Lawrence Lader '41 and several octogenarian Harvard classmates marched in uniform in front of the White House to...
Long before it became a fraternity of the atrociously behaved and was taken out behind the barn and shot, the Pi Eta Speakers Club occupied a...
John Harvard's Journal
One might have anticipated that the volumes of talk from Harvard podiums during Commencement week, so soon after the smoke cleared in Baghdad...
Two women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 352nd Commencement. In the absence of a University marshal, Provost Steven Hyman...
Mather House seniors, from left, Samantha Goodwin, of Freeburg, Illinois; Jordan Goss, of Arlington, Texas; Paul Kwak, of Beavercreek...
VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary degrees, and 290 certificates at its 352nd Commencement. Diplomas went...
I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when I arrived in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh...
We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939." Perhaps you've heard it...
(as prepared for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty appointments...
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, A.M. '62, was the recipient of the 2003 Radcliffe Medal and gave an address at the Radcliffe Association annual...
Elena Kagan, J.D. '86, once a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and later an adviser on domestic policy issues to President...
When Harvard purchased land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) in 2000, it was an historic moment: for the first time, the...
Much more aggressive education, a new office to provide "the first line of support" to students with concerns about sexual violence...
Robert M Gogan, Jr. Photograph by Stu Rosner Rob Gogan is Harvard's recycling and waste-management impresario. "It's a dream job,"...
Masters in the House(s) Jay and Cheryl Harris Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Service Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis announced on...
The newly merged offices of dean of Harvard College and dean of undergraduate education have been entrusted to Benedict H. Gross '71, Ph.D. '78...
The data—or at least some data—are now in on the effects of Harvard's new Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) for custodial...
Baker Library is empty of its books, staff, and readers. It is doing business elsewhere, at several locations both on and off the Business...
Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers delivered this year's Edwin...
In creating a diverse portfolio for Harvard's $17.5-billion endowment, the University's investment arm, Harvard Management Company (HMC)...
Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. One way to trace emerging fields is...
Dental Doings Dave Destroche Three decades and more after its 11,000-square-foot “interim” building was created, the Harvard...
Alumni
She made a high-energy but graceful entrance, nothing too theatrical, sat in a director's chair at a butcherblock coffee table in this...
Harvard Medalists Three alumni received the Harvard Medal and were publicly honored for their extraordinary service by President Lawrence H...
June 4 marked what its president, Raine Figueroa '84, M.B.A. '91, said was the last formal annual meeting of the Radcliffe Association (RA)...
Harvardians journeying to the north side of San Antonio—the "Texas Hill Country"—may need only look skyward for a familiar...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
Treasure
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...