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“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
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Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
Administrators sound cautious note about on-campus learning amid the intensifying pandemic.
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From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
Photograph credits from left: Kent Dayton and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2)
Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
Dendritic cells (like the one shown in yellow, within a pink polymer support structure) can be activated to recognize cancer cells. After migrating to the lymph nodes and spleen, they then train immune-system T cells to attack and destroy tumors.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
An implantable cancer vaccine shows promise in training the immune system to attack tumors.
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“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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(1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65Photograph courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
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Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
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Cassandra Albinson
Photograph by Stu Rosner; Painting: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) by François Boucher/Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
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TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
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An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
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David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
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The Board of Editors for volume 70 of the Harvard Law Review (1956-1957), immortalized on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.
Photograph courtesy of Nancy Boxley Tepper/reproduction by KLK Photography
An alumna looks back.
The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
From the archives
Tom Nichols
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Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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Readers’ views on immigration, the pandemic, the Electoral College, and more
President Bacow on Harvard’s challenge to federal efforts banning international students
Time to rethink the campus-development agenda?
Illustration by Serge Bloch
A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.
Professor Noah Feldman arrives to testify during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, December 4, 2019.
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Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.
Jones at work in the offices of the West Indian Gazette in Brixton, South London, in 1962
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Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
Readers’ views on immigration, the pandemic, the Electoral College, and more
President Bacow on Harvard’s challenge to federal efforts banning international students
Time to rethink the campus-development agenda?
Illustration by Blair Kelly
In his freshman seminar, Cumrun Vafa uses puzzles to help students understand complex physics.
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(1 of 4) Essex Bay reflects New England’s history and reliance on the natural world.Photograph courtesy of Essex River Cruises Inc.
Exploring the coastal wonders of Essex, Massachusetts
Classic Cape Cod sand, water, and sky
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Swim, walk, and picnic along cycling routes
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(1 of 4) The Georgian mansion and adjacent slave quarters were once part of a 500-acre farm just north of Boston.Photograph by Theresa Kelliher/Courtesy of the Royall House and Slave Quarters museum
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
Venkatesh Murthy
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A brief look at what animals’ sense of smell reveals about the brain
Honored professors, new House heads, and more
A gift policy, and peer institutions’ new climate schools
Sherri Ann Charleston
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New diversity and inclusion officer, new University Professor, and more
Photographs courtesy of Che Applewhaite and Meena Venkataramanan
The 2020-2021 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Megha Majumdar
Photograph by Elena Seibert
Megha Majumdar’s novel of India resonates in the United States.