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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
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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
Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
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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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Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research
Readers respond to articles on football, sexual assault, the Social Progress Index, divestment, and more.
A letter from President Faust about Harvard Law School
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrive at Lesbos, Greece, from Turkey, on October 15, 2015.
Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Harvard human-rights expert Jacqueline Bhabha critiques the inadequate response to the world’s migration crises.
Cora Du Bois in 1948
Photograph courtesy of the Tozzer Library, Harvard University. Cora Alice Du Bois Papers
Brief life of a formidable anthropologist: 1903-1991
Richard Posner
Photograph by John Gress/Corbis Images
The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer
Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research
Readers respond to articles on football, sexual assault, the Social Progress Index, divestment, and more.
A letter from President Faust about Harvard Law School
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
The lung-on-a-chip mimics the mechanical and biochemical behaviors of the human organ.
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
The Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips could transform drug testing and personalized medicine.
Buds, blossoms, and a hothouse of tropical trees brighten winter days at Tower Hill Botanic Garden.
Photograph Courtesy of Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Tower Hill Botanic Garden’s “Month of Flowers”
<p class="caption">Scenes from Wendy Jehlen’s “Movement Exploration” class</p><p class="credit">Photograph by Bill Parsons/Maximal Image®</p>
A long-time Cambridge arts organization is poised to grow.
Julie Atlas Muz and Tony Torn bare (almost) all in portraying power-hungry aspiring royalty.
Photograph by Max Basch/ART
A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi
The central diorama, a model of New England’s waters
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A lively exhibit debuts at the Museum of Natural History.
Thomas Hollister, vice president for finance, and Paul J. Finnegan, University treasurer Photographs from left: Paige Brown/Courtesy Tufts Medical Center and Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The University's annual financial report
Stephen Blyth
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard Management Company makes extensive changes to enhance investment performance.
Constrained growth in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Alan M. Garber
Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
The provost on the prospects for Harvard’s MOOCs, and other developments in teaching and learning
Francis J. Doyle III
Photograph by Eliza Grinnell/Courtesy of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SEAS dean Frank Doyle shares insights.
College race debates reach Harvard, admissions adjudication, again, the launch of the Harvard Global Institute, and General Education revisited
Illustration by Mark Steele
With fond admiration to Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Jeffrey S. Flier
Photograph by John Soares/Harvard Medical School
Medical dean stepping down, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, more conservative Winthrop House addition, and more
Despite the efforts of Yale linebacker Victor Egu, Crimson quarterback Scott Hosch ’16 managed a flip to freshman receiver Justice Shelton-Mosley, who took the ball the rest of the way. The 35-yard touchdown gave Harvard a 14-7 second-quarter lead in The Game.
Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
A fine finish to a nearly flawless football season
Carlton Cuse with a young Norman Bates (played by Freddie Highmore) on the set of Bates Motel
Photograph courtesy of Carlton Cuse
Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Lei Liang
Photograph by Alex Matthews/Courtesy of Lei Liang
After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.
The mambo, danced professionally in New York City, 1954
Yale Joel/Life Magazine/Getty Images
Recent books cover the origins of mambo, American economic growth, cancer, landscape, and more