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Bryant at work, captured in an undated photograph.
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Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
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Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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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's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School.
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.
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A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolA Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
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Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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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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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
Photograph by Jeffrey Sturges
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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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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Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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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
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
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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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Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
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Roxanne Guenette
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Seeking answers to science’s biggest questions
Photograph by Aaron Conway/aaconn studio
Back in his hometown: Stephen Gray in downtown Cincinnati
Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
Bryant at work, captured in an undated photograph.
Image courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology/Harvard University
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
Radhika Jones
Photograph by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/Contour RA/Getty Images
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
The border wall, looking eastward from the Mexican side, toward El Monte Cristo Rey, a mountain where there is no wall, but the rugged terrain deters crossings. The Mexican soldiers who guard the border there, Smith says, sometimes have to rescue stranded or injured migrants. The painted signs attached to the wall read, in part, “Ni delincuentes ni ilegales”: "Neither criminals nor illegals.”
Photograph courtesy of Morgan Smith.
Photographer Morgan Smith ’60 documents life on the precarious precipice between Mexico and the United States.
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(1 of 4) Edwin Binney with Helen Willard, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, at the exhibition opening for “The Romantic Ballet” in 1966.Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection
Brief life of a philanthropic art collector: 1925-1986
Shelby Meyerhoff uses body paint and photography to transform herself into creatures and scenes from the natural world. Photograph: a blue-ringed octopus
Photograph courtesy of Shelby Meyerhoff
Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting