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The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
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Recovery coach Raina McMahan (left) talked with addiction-medicine physician Sarah Wakeman about her stigmatizing experiences with health care and drug use.
Photograph courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School
Harvard and the University of Michigan’s second joint summit on opioids addresses stigma, race, and access to care.
William G. Kaelin
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.
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Recovery coach Raina McMahan (left) talked with addiction-medicine physician Sarah Wakeman about her stigmatizing experiences with health care and drug use.
Photograph courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School
Harvard and the University of Michigan’s second joint summit on opioids addresses stigma, race, and access to care.
William G. Kaelin
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.
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(1 of 13) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
The class of 2023 displays its class year banner for the first time.
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First-year Convocation for the class of 2023
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William G. Kaelin
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Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.
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Fewer cold nights could mean muted displays of fall color.
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(click on arrow at right to see full image) A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific InstrumentsNew Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
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Photograph by Melissa DiPalmaBoston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia
The seventeenth-century Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts
Photograph courtesy of the Fairbanks HouseDedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
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President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
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(1 of 5) Harvard Graduate School of Education dean Bridget Terry Long and Sesame Workshop CEO Jeffrey Dunn pose with Ernie, Bert, Grover, Elmo, Count von Count, and Abby Cadabby.Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Sesame Street celebrates a 50-year collaboration with Harvard.
Claire Chase (left, on contrabass flute) and students (Jessica Shand, Jennifer Wang, Mai Nguyen, and Taiga Ultan), all on flutes, play a work by Vijay Iyer during the ArtLab's opening celebration.
Photograph by Karen Philippi/Courtesy of the ArtLabThe ArtLab debuts.
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Potent punters: Sophomore Jon Sot averaged a staggering 56.3 yards on three boots. Meanwhile, a second Crimson punter, junior Sean McKeogh, also had a booming day, averaging 41.2 yards on four kicks.
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Harvard defeats Cornell in its third straight win.
Special teamer: Flying in, Harvard freshman Khalil Dawsey is primed to block the punt of Howard’s Isaiah Moore—one of three Crimson blocked punts that led to 21 points.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonHarvard defeats Howard in another rout.
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
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The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
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College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
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Professor Michael Kremer shares the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences with two scholars from MIT.
Recovery coach Raina McMahan (left) talked with addiction-medicine physician Sarah Wakeman about her stigmatizing experiences with health care and drug use.
Photograph courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School
Harvard and the University of Michigan’s second joint summit on opioids addresses stigma, race, and access to care.
William G. Kaelin
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.
Click on arrow at right to view full image gallery
(1 of 5) Harvard Graduate School of Education dean Bridget Terry Long and Sesame Workshop CEO Jeffrey Dunn pose with Ernie, Bert, Grover, Elmo, Count von Count, and Abby Cadabby.Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Sesame Street celebrates a 50-year collaboration with Harvard.
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
Photograph by Stanley Zimney/iStock
Fewer cold nights could mean muted displays of fall color.
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The geophysicist has pioneered the understanding that sea-level rise around the globe will vary significantly depending on crustal dynamics and gravitational forces.
Yann LeCun
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The physics department confers its Loeb lectureship on an influential non-physicist.