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The gutted main floor of the Harvard COOP.
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.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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Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
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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.
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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
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The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
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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
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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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Radhika Jones
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Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
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The era of imaginative mapmaking
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
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January-February 2015
Letters
Ethics education, silhouettes, missing football fans, the Sixties, and more
A letter from President Faust
A letter from the editor: assessing Harvard Management Company
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication
Letters
Ethics education, silhouettes, missing football fans, the Sixties, and more
A letter from President Faust
A letter from the editor: assessing Harvard Management Company
Right Now
Barbers, bartenders, and beauticians are as privy to our secrets as are family and friends.
Small companies innovate better, but in the energy field, large firms may lead.
Harvard Squared
John Harvard's Journal
Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.
A University financial surplus, but tensions over reductions in employee health benefits
The open-access proponent works to increase the flow of scholarly information.
Design becomes a hands-on “study of culture itself” in the undergraduate architecture studies track.
As debates continue over divestment, Harvard events highlight progress on campus sustainability and climate research.
Funding medical research and education, Steve Ballmer boosts computer-science expansion, and arts and teacher-training initiatives
Writers and artists who made special contributions to the magazine in 2014
An experiment in monitoring students’ engagements with lectures runs afoul of faculty concerns about the sanctity of classrooms.
Departing government and engineering deans, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, Crimson-Eli computer-science course, and more
Harvard sports stalwarts from 1963 to 2012 are celebrated in The Third H Book of Harvard Athletics
Montage
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
A researcher hopes to contact volunteer participants in “truth sera” experiments.
Harvard Latin American Alumni and Friends
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