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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
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A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
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“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A short list of fine
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In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
From the archives
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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Courtesy of Olmsted © Corbis; T. Johnson, engraver; from a photograph by James Notman
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Illustration by Elwood Smith
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Photograph by Jodi Hilton
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Phtograph by Fred Field
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Photograph by Stu Rosner
Few who stood at a Harvard podium during Commencement week mentioned the war in Iraq. Joshua Patashnik '07, of Adams House and San Diego, did do...
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 356th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the...
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Excerpts from the Class Day address, on June 6, by Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States. Clinton discussed the comedians...
Let me introduce you to a couple of my ghosts. As I stand here, I think of my two grandfathers—Lawrence Crowder and Robert Styles...
President Derek Bok used his “last occasion to report to the alumni” to “share some parting reflections on the challenges for...
Excerpts from the Commencement address by William H. Gates III, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation and co-founder and co-chair of...
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Annette Lemieux
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Illustration by Mark Steele
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Stefan Jackiw performing a Saint-Sans violin concerto with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders Theatre
Photograph by Julie Y. Zhou / Harvard Crimson
Musical debuts rarely create front-page news anymore. But when violinist Stefan Jackiw ’07 made his first appearance in London...
Steve Plank hopes to learn who said (as he puts it), “We should each conduct our lives in such a way that if everyone were to do the same...
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Thomas McCraw, Straus professor of business history emeritus at Harvard Business School, has written a large book about a Harvard professor of...
Scott Miller ’86, the founder and artistic director of New Line Theatre in St. Louis, celebrates the innovation and adventurousness of...
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Lora Fleming
Photograph by Christian Howard / Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami
Epidemiologist Lora Fleming ’78, M.D.-M.P.H. ’84, tackles breathing, cancer, and unexpected days at the beach. At the office, she...
Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences confers the Centennial Medals.
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The University had received 91,000 gifts through May 31 of the fiscal year, according to University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68...
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." In her new book, The Window Shop: Safe Harbor for...
One could call these ceremonial spoons the “family silver of Northwest Coast nobility,” says Bill Holm, curator emeritus at the...