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Sweeping renovations and consolidation are under way.
Among the findings of a new survey on civic knowledge is that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government.
Montage by Niko Yaitanes/ Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash.
A U.S. Department of Education-funded study, coauthored by Danielle Allen, calls for urgent reinvestment in civic education.
A screen shot from the closing moments of the 2020 virtual degree-granting ceremony (a technologically enabled singing of “Fair Harvard”)—an exercise now being replicated in some form for a second consecutive pandemic spring
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The 370th degree-conferral will be online for the second consecutive year—with Ruth Simmons as guest speaker.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer’s proposed massing and configuration of buildings for the first phase of construction on the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
From Tishman Speyer's Project Notification Form filing.
Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Prospective candidates and their diverse views of Harvard’s future and the Board’s role
The Xfund helps young entrepreneurs launch companies and careers.
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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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A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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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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From the archives
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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Communications from our readers
Comments about swinging doors and energy conservation, David Roy Shackleton Bailey, brain aging and a defunct drinking fountain, and the love of learning and of one’s colleagues
Kit Reed introduces an exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History that reveals the different roles color plays in the animal and plant kingdoms.
William P. MacKinnon profiles the early war correspondent who covered the Utah War against the Mormon government of Brigham Young.
Communications from our readers
Interdisciplinary economist Nathan Nunn explores the problem of African underdevelopment by drawing on—and unearthing—historical data about slavery.
Biological anthropologist Marc Hauser seeks to isolate the aspects of human thought that account for what he terms "humaniqueness," the difference between animal and human thought.
James Hanken of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and other scientists launch an ambitious project to chronicle all life on earth.
Psychologist and public-policy scholar Jennifer Lerner explores how emotions influence behavior and judgment.
Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna seeks to integrate Western business models into emerging markets.
Recent complaints about the Harvard University Police Department have prompted a special presidential review committee charged with improving the department’s relationship with the community.
Headlines from Harvard history
President Drew Faust delivers a homily at Morning Prayers on the importance of environmental stewardship.
Harvard pushes undergraduates to ponder life’s big questions.
Ariel Phillips and Abigail Lipson head the Success-Failure Project at the Harvard Bureau of Study Counsel.
Harvard faculty members gather to discuss economic problems on Wall Street and beyond.
Short takes on recent news at Harvard
The Undergraduate reflects on how good and bad dreams shape the way we grow up.
How Harvard athletes fared at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games
Fall semester soccer results to date
A report on the first half of the Harvard football season. And: The Harvard football team has a fancy new locker room.
Kevin Rafferty has made a documentary film, <em>Harvard Beats Yale 29-29,</em> about the 1968 football game.
The Ivy League exonerated men’s basketball head coach Tommy Amaker and an assistant coach following allegations of improper recruiting and lowered admissions standards for the men’s team.
After a childhood spent playing the classics, cellist Matt Haimovitz has devoted himself to new music.
An excerpt from <em>The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies,</em> by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel <em>Blindspot,</em> set in colonial Boston.
Recent books with Harvard connections
William Thomas, founder of the Eden Alternative and the Green House Project, reimagines nursing homes and residential living for the elderly.
Events at Harvard Clubs
A Harvard Alumni Association global conference in South Africa
Programs that match Harvard College students with jobs and internships
Recipients of the 2008 Harvard Alumni Association Awards
Comments about swinging doors and energy conservation, David Roy Shackleton Bailey, brain aging and a defunct drinking fountain, and the love of learning and of one’s colleagues