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Motions for summary judgment outline plaintiff’s allegation of discrimination, and Harvard’s defense of its admissions program.
Harvard Athletics acknowledges an inequitable disparity between salaries for men and women.
Soyoung Lee
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Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
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A student protest during the 1968 Commencement
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A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
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Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
Matthew Meselson
Photograph by Constance BrukinA symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
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Bill Gates
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The Microsoft co-founder talked about his life as a philanthropist—and answered myriad student questions.
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Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
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A student protest during the 1968 Commencement
Courtesy of The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
2018 newly elected Harvard Overseers and HAA directors
From left: Penny S. Pritzker and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin
Photograph on left © Moshe Zusman Photography Studio. Photograph on right courtesy of Amherst College
New Corporation members and Overseers’ leaders
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Abbi of Bacabi (1978), among Cannon’s last and unfinished works
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Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
Pammy’s jewel-box interior
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Best new restaurants in and around Cambridge
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Commencement Day, 1978
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Echoes of a Harvard Commencement speech 40 years on
A fellow Peace Corps volunteer took this snapshot of the author (at left) during a school visit in Africa.
Courtesy of Michael S. Knapp
A century apart, two alumni find each other in the American South.
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Soyoung Lee
Photograph by Audrey Kotkin
Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
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Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Mara Sidmore, artistic director of Applied Theatre Practice at the Bok Center
Photograph by Jim HarrisonA theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
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Harvard Athletics acknowledges an inequitable disparity between salaries for men and women.
Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
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Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
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Late winter and early spring highlights
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Matthew Meselson
Photograph by Constance BrukinA symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
Dr. Abramson, Dr. Hawking, and the wand
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A close call on Commencement day
David Davidson
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A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
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James and Deborah Fallows explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
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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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