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4 Harvard seniors awarded U.S. Rhodes Scholarships
Students will pursue degrees in physics, linguistics, social science, public policy at University of Oxford.
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Ideas captured in chalk on slate
They offer windows into the problems, questions, theories, arguments on students’ minds this semester.
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Genuine heroines
Answering Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces,’ Maria Tatar reveals multitudes in her new book.
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Becoming founders of a future FAS
Three-year process to open door to greater flexibility, innovation in teaching, research.
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Checking in with the local ghosts
Folklore & Mythology course examines how tales of spirits and ghosts from the past affect the present and the future.
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Why being a working mom is still so tough
In a new book, “Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity,” Professor Claudia Goldin traces five generational groups of college-educated women across 120 years.
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Naming the things you feel
Celebrated poet and new faculty member Tracy K. Smith aims to create life-changing space for students.
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Earth’s most excellent mixtape
Harvard music professor Alex Reading’s book turns up volume on Golden Record of sounds of our civilization sent into space.
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Giving Carrie Mae Weems her due
New volume fills gap in scholarship on work of celebrated Black photographer Carrie Mae Weems.
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Far from the madding crowd
Students, faculty, staff, and affiliates share their favorite places to write — courtyards, hallway alcoves, cafes, and library stacks — around Cambridge and Boston.
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3 ways to strengthen a child’s mental resilience
New study suggests practical strategies to help children through a pandemic.
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Remembrance of cicada seasons past
Cicadas emerging after 17 years of dormancy ignited a childhood memory in Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture .
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Who wants ice cream? At this point, pretty much everyone
Despite downpour, the Department of Astronomy ice cream social event draws a crowd.
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Tuning up for a return to performing in person
After 15 months of virtual performance and teaching, Vijay Iyer is returning to the physical stage.
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Take a bow
Since Theater, Dance & Media launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration, almost 40 College students have graduated with a concentration in TDM and more than 90 have pursued secondary concentrations in the field.
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The evolution of bigotry
James H. Sidanius devoted much of his career to social justice and racial equality.
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Looking to ignite questions rather than supply answers
Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.
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A way in
Three students worked in collaboration with their instructors to develop an interactive theater experience focused on loss and sorrow.
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An instrumental scientist
Jerome Kagan taught at Harvard for 36 years. He died May 10.
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A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid
Muhua Yang ’21 — living in Cambridge and separated from friends and family by the pandemic — chose the elegies of the five volumes of “Tristia” as the subject of their senior thesis in literary translation.
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All roads lead to Samyra
More than 5,300 people (and counting) follow Samyra Miller ’21 on Instagram, where she dispenses information and opinions on everything from how to choose a good Gen Ed course and strategies for navigating campus social scenes to where to get good coffee and her shopping hauls.
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5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members join the ranks of Harvard College Professors.
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Study aims to quell fears over falling human sperm count
Rising fears over declining human sperm count among men in Western countries may be overblown, according to researchers at Harvard’s GenderSci Lab.
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Come fall, a new humanities program
Starting in fall, Harvard sophomores can join I-HUM and USI for intense focus on humanities.
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Let there be light
The art installation “Lucidity” was an immersive light and video display in Harvard Yard.
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Stantcheva honored by Carnegie Corporation
Stefanie Stantcheva was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, along with 25 others