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“We cannot proceed as if nothing has changed,” FAS dean Claudine Gay wrote. “Everything has changed."
3.27.20
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University Hall
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC“We cannot proceed as if nothing has changed,” FAS dean Claudine Gay wrote. “Everything has changed."
The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard MagazineAnd the term bill exceeds $70,000 for the first time.
Massachusetts Hall
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCHarvard is expected to announce a decision by the end of this week about whether and how it can help subcontracted workers.
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Karen Dynan
Photograph courtesy of Karen DynanThe severe economic fallout, in context
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As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
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Professor and platform: William C. Kirby logs on to Zoom from home for his first remote teaching session.
On taking a Harvard Gen Ed class remotely with William C. Kirby
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
In a paper aimed at fellow educators, David Malan reports on interventions designed to teach academic honesty in the wildly popular introductory computer science course he teaches at Harvard.
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As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, chair of the Harvard Alumni Association Committee to Nominate Overseers and Elected Directors, and Philip Lovejoy, HAA executive director
Photographs: Courtesy of Tracy P. Palandjian and Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni AssociationOn the eve of a contested election for the governing board, looking under the hood of the nominating process
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
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“What will it mean to end our time on this campus with no closure, no time to reflect on what it all meant?”
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At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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2020 Ivy foil champion Geoffrey Tourette '21 celebrates a point.
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A focus on process leads Harvard fencers to an Ivy championship.
At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Photograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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University Hall
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
“We cannot proceed as if nothing has changed,” FAS dean Claudine Gay wrote. “Everything has changed."
The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard Magazine
And the term bill exceeds $70,000 for the first time.
Massachusetts Hall
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Harvard is expected to announce a decision by the end of this week about whether and how it can help subcontracted workers.
Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s chief financial officer
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Barely a decade after the 2008 crisis and Great Recession, new challenges loom. An early assessment of the University’s strengths this time
Lawrence S. Bacow
The president and his wife are in isolation.
Professor and platform: William C. Kirby logs on to Zoom from home for his first remote teaching session.
On taking a Harvard Gen Ed class remotely with William C. Kirby
In a paper aimed at fellow educators, David Malan reports on interventions designed to teach academic honesty in the wildly popular introductory computer science course he teaches at Harvard.
Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Photograph by Kent Dayton
Epidemiologist Marc Lipstich outlines what the country must do swiftly, and what strategically.