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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
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
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 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock PhotoPleasures to explore in and around Worcester
(click on arrow at right to see full image) A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific InstrumentsNew Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
The seventeenth-century Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts
Photograph courtesy of the Fairbanks HouseDedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
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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
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
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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.
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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.
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Turkeys, tourists, traditions, tranquility
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Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe
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The Watchers
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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January-February 2012
Letters
Keynesian economics, solar costs, education excesses, and more
The College Pump
An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House
Treasure
In this Issue
Harvard playwrights, directors, producers, actors, and artistic directors speculate about theatrical prospects for the future.
Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”
Letters
Keynesian economics, solar costs, education excesses, and more
Right Now
Brains scans reveal that In moral decision-making, people rely on emotion to guide choices in some situations and rationality in others.
New England Regional
Organic farming and spiritual retreats in a camp-like atmosphere
John Harvard's Journal
The 375th anniversary celebration was wet and muddy, but full of youthful spirit.
The University, still adjusting to the financial crisis, incurs a $130-million deficit and pursues both savings and new revenues.
Harvard's largest faculty narrows its deficit, but faces continuing financial challenges.
Headlines from Harvard's history
A $40-million gift jump-starts a University initiative to adapt learning and teaching to twenty-first-century opportunities and challenges.
A foreign-policy pundit at Commencement, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, stem-cell center, the Fogg under wraps, and more
The Undergraduate writes about "Reinventing Boston," a course that sends students out to learn about urban progress and problems through immersion in city life.
Women's soccer and men's heavyweight crew have banner seasons.
Details of the ceremony
Montage
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Popular works by evolutionary biologist and baseball fan Stephen Jay Gould back in print
Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.
Sociologist Robert J. Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago.
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The College Pump
An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House