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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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The author and fellow activists at a Divest Harvard rally this past April: (from left) Caleb Schwartz ’20, Flores-Jones, Anand Bradley ’19, Owen Torrey ’21, Eva Rosenfeld ’21, and Sophia Higgins ’21
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An activist on activism, in college and after
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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.
Dwight Miller
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College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
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Letters
Letters on E.O. Wilson, Senator Franken, dating data, Overseers, lecture lessons, softball, basketball, taxes, lilacs, and primate research
The College Pump
Treasure
Mollusks of amazing diversity—some deadly—are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
In this Issue
Lawrence Lessig thinks American democracy requires a constitutional overhaul to counter the “economy of influence.”
A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.
Letters
Letters on E.O. Wilson, Senator Franken, dating data, Overseers, lecture lessons, softball, basketball, taxes, lilacs, and primate research
Right Now
James Robinson says that in the modern period, greedy leaders and institutional corruption, rather than geography, explain why some nations fail.
An innovative course yields new products, services, and experiences that model the possible future of libraries.
Kathryn Edin of Harvard Kennedy School explains why more and more American children are born out of wedlock.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
Moments for reflection and projection during the 361st Commencement, in Harvard's 375th anniversary year
An oratorical omnium gatherum, from Donald Berwick and Derek Bok to Margaret Marshall and Fareed Zakaria
Meet the director of Harvard Medical School's new Center for Primary Care.
In a fiscally constrained era, faculty-administration tensions arise.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences deploys new rules and procedures surrounding financial conflicts of interest.
Memorial Church's new minister, Pulitzer Prize winners, and other Harvardians in the news
Headlines from Harvard history
Spring sports wrap-up
Montage
<i>Rocksteady</i>, a film directed by Mustapha Khan '84, explores the culture of stock car races.
Robert Proctor’s <i>Golden Holocaust</i> urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Four women and eight men were chosen.
Four seniors are bound for Britain.
New records are announced on Commencement afternoon.
A literary scholar, an East Asia expert, a trailblazing biologist, and a specialist on international relations are honored.
Shared Interest Group happenings in July and August
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The College Pump
Treasure
Mollusks of amazing diversity—some deadly—are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.