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Results from the second campus survey of sexual misconduct show that sexual assault and harassment remain serious problems at institutions of higher education nationwide.
Recovery coach Raina McMahan (left) talked with addiction-medicine physician Sarah Wakeman about her stigmatizing experiences with health care and drug use.
Photograph courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School
Harvard and the University of Michigan’s second joint summit on opioids addresses stigma, race, and access to care.
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Recovery coach Raina McMahan (left) talked with addiction-medicine physician Sarah Wakeman about her stigmatizing experiences with health care and drug use.
Photograph courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School
Harvard and the University of Michigan’s second joint summit on opioids addresses stigma, race, and access to care.
William G. Kaelin
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Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.
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Results from the second campus survey of sexual misconduct show that sexual assault and harassment remain serious problems at institutions of higher education nationwide.
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(1 of 13) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
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William G. Kaelin
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Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.
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Fewer cold nights could mean muted displays of fall color.
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(1 of 6) The market as a community gathering point
Photograph by Melissa DiPalmaBoston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia
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(1 of 8) The “Rocking Horse Graveyard,” in Lincoln, Massachusetts— “It’s a fun, whimsical thing with a flea- market feel,” Ocker says. “But at night it’s one of the creepiest sights on the planet.”
Photograph courtesy of J.W. Ocker/OTISExploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker
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(1 of 6) A child’s horse-drawn carriage dating to1907, from the Wenham Museum’s new exhibit
Photograph courtesy of Peter G. Gwinn/Wenham MuseumEquestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
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(1 of 13) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
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(1 of 5) Harvard Graduate School of Education dean Bridget Terry Long and Sesame Workshop CEO Jeffrey Dunn pose with Ernie, Bert, Grover, Elmo, Count von Count, and Abby Cadabby.Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Sesame Street celebrates a 50-year collaboration with Harvard.
Claire Chase (left, on contrabass flute) and students (Jessica Shand, Jennifer Wang, Mai Nguyen, and Taiga Ultan), all on flutes, play a work by Vijay Iyer during the ArtLab's opening celebration.
Photograph by Karen Philippi/Courtesy of the ArtLabThe ArtLab debuts.
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Potent punters: Sophomore Jon Sot averaged a staggering 56.3 yards on three boots. Meanwhile, a second Crimson punter, junior Sean McKeogh, also had a booming day, averaging 41.2 yards on four kicks.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
Harvard defeats Cornell in its third straight win.
Special teamer: Flying in, Harvard freshman Khalil Dawsey is primed to block the punt of Howard’s Isaiah Moore—one of three Crimson blocked punts that led to 21 points.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonHarvard defeats Howard in another rout.
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
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(1 of 13) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
Dwight Miller
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College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
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The College Pump
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Treasure
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John Harvard's Journal
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Alvin Roth loves how open economics is to people and ideas from different fields...
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Edward C. Forst ’82 has been named Harvard’s first executive vice president, effective September 1.
Football and soccer previews...
Harvard is already trying many green initiatives; it will need to do much more to meet its new greenhouse-gas emissions goal...
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Montage
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