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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
From the potentialenergycoalition.org website
A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
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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From the archives
<p class="caption">A serpentine proximal tubule (light pink) snakes through the center of a multi-layer network of blood vessels (hot pink), all created using a 3-D printer.</p>
<p class="credit">Image from Scientific Reports</p>
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
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A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
In Nigeria, Tomato Jos hopes to help improve farmers’ practices and sales, to boost their incomes.
Photograph courtesy of Tomato Jos
Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid through private enterprise
Andrew Bujalski
Photograph by Jay L. Clendenin/Contour by Getty Images
The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
With her 1964 screenprint the juiciest tomato of all, Corita Kent created a word portrait of the Virgin Mary as a tomato. This print seems to establish the artist nun as an apostate: in fact, she was responding both to liberalizing changes taking place within the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council and to Pop art’s appropriation of commercial language, images, and symbols to create fine art.
Collection of Jason Simon, New York, TL41302. © Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John and Kimiko Powers, M15531. © / courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.
A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
Illustration by Mike Lester
Overly aggressive physicians account for significant healthcare cost, according to a recent study.
Fossil river deltas on Mars, such as this one in Eberswalde Crater, bear many similarities to river deltas on Earth. Such features suggest that Mars once had flowing liquid water on the surface, motivating study of the planet’s early climate.
Photograph by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Researchers suspect ancient Martian climate was cold and icy.
The Crane Estate’s palatial abode and hillside Casino Complex
Photograph Courtesy of the Trustees
Restorations revive the grand spirit of a North Shore estate.
Masks, mariachi music, and sugar skulls at Harvard’s Peabody Museum
Roger D. Metcalf/Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology highlights the holiday on November 1.
Animaris Adulari (2012)
Photographs courtesy of Theo Jansen
Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests
Heavy construction under way in the Harvard Kennedy School's (former) courtyard
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Overhauling the Kennedy School campus, the Business School’s new executive-education center, and College House renewal
On the first day of the new curriculum’s launch, Gordon professor of medical education Richard Schwartzstein (at far right, and in subsequent photographs) leads an orientation in a large group classroom equipped with interactive technologies that facilitate case-based collaborative learning.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Harvard Medical School's new curriculum emphasizes the process of learning to learn rather than rote memorization.
Catherine Brekus
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A Harvard Divinity School specialist on women in early America
Robin J. Ely
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The Business School looks at gender effects within organizations—and its own walls.
One of Chiang’s covers for Wonder Woman
Image by Cliff Chiang
A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.
Forrest O’Connor (at left), Kate Lee, and Jim Shirey
Photograph by Wayne Ebinger
A folk trio finds their harmony, on the road.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Olmsted's 1867 plan for “Fort Green or Washington Park, in the city of Brooklyn,” New York Plan from Design for Laying Out Grounds Known as Fort Green or Washington Park, in the City of Brooklyn, 1897
Courtesy of the Prospect Park Alliance
Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more
Record Hospital veteran Peter Menz tests a rock-and-roll 45.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”
An 1840 etching of the alumni procession during Harvard’s bicentennial celebration in 1836
Courtesy of the Harvard Universty Archives
The Harvard Alumni Association celebrates its founding.