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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.
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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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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.
Compact and persistent, DNA could one day compress all human knowledge into a 15-gallon drum.
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The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
The Xfund helps young entrepreneurs launch companies and careers.
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
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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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Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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Illustration by Dan Page
Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
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Harvard @375, Mary Berenson, energy options, colleges in crisis, and more
Harvard @375, Mary Berenson, energy options, colleges in crisis, and more
Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.
Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.
George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.
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The Mahindra Humanities Center erects eight “poetry posts” to prompt reflection about loss and recovery.
The Allston Work Team's development recommendations have been endorsed by the Harvard Corporation.
The College redistributes aid among lower- and higher-income undergraduates, and introduces a new family financial-planning tool.
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Dean Michael D. Smith presents his draft annual report: budget, faculty growth, and more
The documentary film "Foreign Parts" explores Willets Point, a vanishing junkyard neighborhood in Queens.
Anne Douglas ’12, of Adams House, and Marcel Moran ’11, of Eliot House, are the 2011 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize outstanding service to the University through alumni activities.
Alumni join in to help British filmmaker Elizabeth McKay with her forthcoming documentary, ”Harvard at Chanzeaux: A Tribute to Laurence Wylie.”
"No Look Pass," a documentary film about Harvard basketball player Emily Tay ’08, was written, produced, and directed by Melissa Johnson ’00.
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The Boxing Club aims to build an alumni network.
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