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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Photograph by Keith Tolman
A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Jorge Dominguez
Photograph by Paul Marotta/Getty Images
The former government professor was found to have engaged in sexual harassment for nearly 40 years.
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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Photograph by Keith Tolman
A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Byerly Hall
Photograph by Kevin Grady
Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman, now analyzing interviews from 10 campuses
Photograph courtesy of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
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A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
Photograph by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Sarah Lewis
Photograph by Melissa Blackall
At a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
Photograph courtesy of Shore Fire Media
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Poster courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Ephemera Collection (AR.EP.PS.0669)
Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
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May-June 2019
Illustration by Kasia Bogdanska
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
From the archives
American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
Photograph courtesy of Shore Fire Media
Arts
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
4.5.19
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Sarah Lewis
Photograph by Melissa Blackall
At a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
In De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, published in 1543, Copernicus revealed a mathematical explanation of the heliocentric model—a major shift in scientific understanding.
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University
An exhibition in Houghton Library shows Apollo 11 in context, and at its most intimate.
Photograph by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University
Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Seafood ceviche at Celeste, in Somerville
Photograph courtesy of the restaurant
An eclectic array of favored restaurants in Greater Boston
Log-based cavities host nesting bees at the Arnold Arboretum.
Photograph by Jessica Lau
Greater Boston’s bee cultures
Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
