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A worker in Brazil sprays insecticides into a house to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which carry the Zika virus.
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Harvard researchers race to stem the disease’s deadly spread.
5.8.17
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Mark Zuckerberg
Photograph by Jim HarrisonMark Zuckerberg and Drew Faust, on freedom of speech and creating “a sense of purpose for everyone”
Gina McCarthy
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Former EPA head Gina McCarthy addresses graduates at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
Namit Choksi and his M.P.H. classmates (from left) Ashley Cheng, Trusha Patel, and Anu Ghuman celebrate the day. Some School of Public Health degree recipients carried rubber light bulbs bearing the message “Bright ideas for a healthy world.”
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard's 366th Commencement Morning Exercises
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A worker in Brazil sprays insecticides into a house to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which carry the Zika virus.
Photograph courtesy of Marcia Castro
Harvard researchers race to stem the disease’s deadly spread.
Illustration by Whooli Chen
Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.
Illustration by Jude Buffum
Patterns of gene expression that appear to be inherited from one generation to the next are instead explained by in-utero exposures.
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Latin Salutatorian Jessica Glueck at rehearsal, Monday, May 22, being advised by Professor R. J. Tarrant, with whom she has studied. University Marshal Jackie O'Neill stands to the rear, as Erika Bailey, head of voice and speech, gestures.
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard Magazine
The student speakers at Harvard’s 366th Commencement
Drew Faust poses with 2017 class marshals
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The 2017 Baccalaureate address
Senior captain Josh Ellis '17 started playing catcher as a 10-year-old Little Leaguer, he says, and "never looked back."
Photograph by Elan Kawesch
On the eve of his graduation, the baseball team’s Josh Ellis looks forward—and back.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Photograph by Jim HarrisonMark Zuckerberg and Drew Faust, on freedom of speech and creating “a sense of purpose for everyone”
From left: Russell A. Mittermeier, Sarah P. Morris, Richard Sennett, and Thomas F. Pettigrew
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo/ Courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four alumni whose contributions to society emerged from their study at Harvard.
Former students, friends, family, and colleagues gather to celebrate Harry Lewis on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
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Barry Van Dusen’s barn swallow (nesting at Stone Barn Farm)
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A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Steampunk style merges “neo-Victorian fashion with retro-futuristic technology.”
Photograph by Bobbi Lane
Steampunk Festival celebrates art and history in Waltham, Massachusetts
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A state’s pension-plan problems highlight the endowment challenge to realizing Harvard’s goals.
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Barack Obama listening to his advisors, in the Oval Office, April 2010.
Official White House photograph by Pete Souza
Harvard Review editor Major Jackson, RI ’07, linked 200 poets in this verse tribute to the president.
Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in A Quiet Passion
© A Quiet Passion/Hurricane Films/Courtesy of Music Box Films.
In his film A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies illuminates Emily Dickinson’s daily life and eternal poetry.
Steampunk style merges “neo-Victorian fashion with retro-futuristic technology.”
Photograph by Bobbi Lane
Steampunk Festival celebrates art and history in Waltham, Massachusetts
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Senior captain Josh Ellis '17 started playing catcher as a 10-year-old Little Leaguer, he says, and "never looked back."
Photograph by Elan Kawesch
On the eve of his graduation, the baseball team’s Josh Ellis looks forward—and back.
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Illustration by Michael Witte
Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more
In the momentum-building Beanpot victory: Crimson forward Alexander Kerfoot skates against Boston University.
Photograph by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Strong seasons in hockey, fencing, and swimming
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The honorands’ doctoral robes, with the crow’s feet restored
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Updates for the engineers and the honorands: Harvard regalia sightings, for connoisseurs
Challenges and response (clockwise from upper left): Prague residents watch a Communist May Day parade in 1948; the Secretary of State; physical destruction in Münster, Germany in 1945; Marshall in the Commencement procession.
Clockwise from upper left: © Archive Photos; George C. Marshall Research Library (Montage by Jim Gipe); © Archive Photos; Harvard University News Office
When Secretary of State George C. Marshall received a degree—and established the standard for U.S. engagement with the world
Marshall with President Conant and fellow honorands (from his left) Bradley, Wadsworth, Oppenheimer, Richards, and Eliot, before his speech.
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When the Marshall Plan was announced at Harvard
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A worker in Brazil sprays insecticides into a house to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which carry the Zika virus.
Photograph courtesy of Marcia Castro
Harvard researchers race to stem the disease’s deadly spread.
From left: Martha Minow, Robert Darnton, and Samantha Powers
From left: photograph by Ken Richardson, photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications, Photograph by Eric Bridiers
Eleven of this year’s 52 fellows come from within the University.
Image courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.
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Illustration by Michael Witte
Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more
A Conservative Party poster, circa 1900, the year the precursor of the Labour Party first participated in a general election
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Scholarly lessons from Europe prove pertinent today.
Willa Cather, finance expert
Photograph courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society
A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.
Photograph by Anne Cusack /los angeles Times/Getty images
Linguists have documented the ability of sign languages to do all the things spoken languages can do, using three-dimensional space instead of sound.
Kathryn Davidson discusses her research
Photograph by Jim Harrison
How linguists use sign languages to understand universal grammar