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Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
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From left: Madeleine Albright, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Lizabeth Cohen, and Maura Healey
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo
The 2016 presidential candidate discusses her time at Wellesley, the crisis in American government, and the importance of raising empathetic children.
John Lewis
Photograph by Jim HarrisonCongressman John Lewis spoke at Drew Faust's last afternoon exercises as Harvard president.
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
David Shumway Jones
Photograph by John Soares/Harvard Medical School
Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
From left: Courtesy of Stanley Shaw and Deborah Schrag
Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
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Bill Gates
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The Microsoft co-founder talked about his life as a philanthropist—and answered myriad student questions.
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Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
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The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
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2018 newly elected Harvard Overseers and HAA directors
From left: Penny S. Pritzker and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin
Photograph on right courtesy of Amherst College
New Corporation members and Overseers’ leaders
Janet Pascal ’84 crafts the new final line for “Fair Harvard,” debuting this Commencement.
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
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The National Black Doll Museum
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Commencement Day, 1978
Photograph copyright © 1978 by Christopher S. Johnson
Echoes of a Harvard Commencement speech 40 years on
A fellow Peace Corps volunteer took this snapshot of the author (at left) during a school visit in Africa.
Courtesy of Michael S. Knapp
A century apart, two alumni find each other in the American South.
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Claire Chase
Photograph by Stu Rosner
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Late winter and early spring highlights
Seth Towns ’20, the Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a game-high 24 points in the Crimson’s 74-55 victory over Cornell in the Ivy tournament semifinals.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
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Dr. Abramson, Dr. Hawking, and the wand
Photograph courtesy of David H. Abramson
A close call on Commencement day
David Davidson
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A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
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Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
James M. Thresher/Washington Post/Getty ImagesCapital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
David Shumway Jones
Photograph by John Soares/Harvard Medical School
Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
From left: Courtesy of Stanley Shaw and Deborah Schrag
Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law
Mara Sidmore, artistic director of Applied Theatre Practice at the Bok Center
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
A deputy sheriff confronts civil-rights marchers in front of the county courthouse in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1966. Greenwood, nicknamed “the Cotton Capital of the World,” depended heavily on slave labor in the nineteenth century and became a flashpoint for racial strife throughout the twentieth.
Photograph by Bettmann/Getty Images
A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.
Illustration by Doug Panton
The digital tools advertisers rely on can be easily manipulated to influence public opinion on politics.
Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.