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Sweeping renovations and consolidation are under way.
Among the findings of a new survey on civic knowledge is that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government.
Montage by Niko Yaitanes/ Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash.
A U.S. Department of Education-funded study, coauthored by Danielle Allen, calls for urgent reinvestment in civic education.
A screen shot from the closing moments of the 2020 virtual degree-granting ceremony (a technologically enabled singing of “Fair Harvard”)—an exercise now being replicated in some form for a second consecutive pandemic spring
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The 370th degree-conferral will be online for the second consecutive year—with Ruth Simmons as guest speaker.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer’s proposed massing and configuration of buildings for the first phase of construction on the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
From Tishman Speyer's Project Notification Form filing.
Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Prospective candidates and their diverse views of Harvard’s future and the Board’s role
The Xfund helps young entrepreneurs launch companies and careers.
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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A short list of fine
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The era of imaginative mapmaking
Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.
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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
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From the archives
<p class="caption">A serpentine proximal tubule (light pink) snakes through the center of a multi-layer network of blood vessels (hot pink), all created using a 3-D printer.</p>
<p class="credit">Image from Scientific Reports</p>
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
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Stimulus funds, meritocracy, enlarging history, and more
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Ross Douthat sees American society stagnating amid tired culture wars and a gridlocked political system.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval
Lorenzo Tañada as a senator (in an undated portrait)
Portrait courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines /Wikipedia/Public Domain
Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992
Stimulus funds, meritocracy, enlarging history, and more
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Illustration by Mike Austin
Economic analysis of U.S. government spending shows that some social programs more than pay for themselves.
Illustration by Barbara Dekeyser
Dementia is decreasing in Europe and North America. Why not the rest of the world?
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Meadow with Poplars (circa 1875)
Claude Monet/Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts
Winter exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts
Groovy clocks from The Glass House
Photograph courtesy of The Glass House
Holiday gifts that support the arts
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
Photograph by Rachel Manzier/Metter Media/Courtesy of Craigie on Main
Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
This fall’s welcome to Harvard Yard began with PPE-equipped greeters, virus testing, and pre-isolation meal kits.
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine
A semester conducted in the shadow of the coronavirus
Mayra Rivera
Photograph by Steph Stevens
How apocalyptic narratives help make sense of the modern world
The First Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on a much-watched lawsuit that could determine the future of affirmative action.
Sheree Ohen, associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Photograph by Kayana Szymczak
Racial justice efforts, “Lowell?” House, and more
A consequential change in the composition of and elections for the Board of Overseers
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s journal displays handwriting much finer than that in many manuscripts. Who did the underlining is unknown.
Detail from: A-143, folder 8, p. 2. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
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Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
In college, Mark Erickson returned to his birthplace, capturing his experience in photographs such as those shown here, all taken in Hanoi. This is “Schoolchildren Playing Cards.”
Photograph by and courtesy of Mark Erickson
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
Yitzchak Lichtenstein/From the book
Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Applied science in the kitchen: a cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookie, from Science and Cooking
Courtesy of W.W. Norton and Company
Recent books with Harvard connections