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“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
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Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
Photograph credits from left: Kent Dayton and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2)
Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
Dendritic cells (like the one shown in yellow, within a pink polymer support structure) can be activated to recognize cancer cells. After migrating to the lymph nodes and spleen, they then train immune-system T cells to attack and destroy tumors.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
An implantable cancer vaccine shows promise in training the immune system to attack tumors.
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Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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(1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65Photograph courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art
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An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
Photograph by Martha Stewart
David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
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The Board of Editors for volume 70 of the Harvard Law Review (1956-1957), immortalized on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.
Photograph courtesy of Nancy Boxley Tepper/reproduction by KLK Photography
An alumna looks back.
The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
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A collection of stunning Jun ceramics displayed—and analyzed
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Readers comment further on “Fair Harvard,” teaching the liberal arts, celebrity and politics, the middle class, and more.
President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search
Carl Thorne-Thomsen in high school (with fellow student-council member Linda Jones Docherty)
Photograph from Lake Forest High School 1964 Yearbook/Courtesy of Linda Docherty
Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967
To simply say that the White Cliffs of Dover are made of chalk would miss the point of Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World. The chalk giving the famous cliffs their white appearance was formed from the exoskeletons of plated marine microbes called coccolithophores.
All images from Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World, by Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter. Copyright ©2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
On Earth, microbes run the show.
Readers comment further on “Fair Harvard,” teaching the liberal arts, celebrity and politics, the middle class, and more.
President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search
A surgical technique designed to preserve proprioceptive signals after amputation should allow patients to sense the location of their prostheses, feedback that is often compromised by convential surgery.
Image courtesy of Shriya Srinivasan
Improved surgical techniques enhance prosthetic function.
The village grew up around the Meeting House, built in 1792.
Photograph by Alamy Stock Images
The Canterbury Shakers’ enduring appeal
World’s End offers stunning views of Hingham Harbor…
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A day trip to Hingham
Assembling the science and engineering complex in Allston (with work on the district energy plant distantly visible to the rear of the site)
Image from the SEAS Construction Cam
A campus construction program of unprecedented proportions
President Drew Faust
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
President Faust’s exit timetable, and the search for her successor
HarvardX project leader April Opoliner with Kolokotrones professor of biostatistics and epidemiology Miguel Hernán and teaching assistant Barbra Dickerman
Photograph by Stu Rosner
HarvardX transforms a popular course in epidemiology to serve a global audience.
Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.
Illustration by Mark Steele
A Channel first, a voluntary U.S. history exam, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Harvard’s business and engineering faculties join forces on a new technology-design degree—before they co-locate in Allston.
George Andreou
Photograph by Michael Lionstar
New University Press director, new University Professor, changing Harvard Square, and more
Natasha Lasky and Tawanda Mulalu
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Though songwriter Dan Wilson mostly stays out of the spotlight these days…
Photograph by Devin Pedde
The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.
The young Rachel Carson (1940); Abraham Lincoln, wearied by the Civil War (1864); and the Endurance in the crushing grip of polar ice
From Left: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Library of Congress (2)
The Business School’s Nancy Koehn analyzes the personal stakes that propel leaders.
The artist as master colorist: Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat (Femme au Chapeau), 1905
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John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more
The world’s most famous fruit-plucking: detail from Hugo van der Goes, The Fall (after 1479)
Painting detail from Bridgeman Images
Stephen Greenblatt explores the myths and meanings of Adam and Eve.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words