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A tampon casts a dollar-sign-shaped shadow.

Striving for a Full Stop to Period Poverty

Hong Yang looking upward, standing in front of a tree.

Looking to the Past to Understand the Future of Climate Change

An unfinished, dirt-floored basement with cardboard boxes and several ladders scattered about. At the center, a curved brick structure that contains a tomb.

Here Lies Darby Vassall

To the Rescue Homeira Qaderi Ri '22, RI '23, Robert G. James Scholar Fellow / Harvard Magazine
The FT’s 25 Most Influential Women of 2022 Tsitsi Dangarembga RI '23, Joy Foundation Fellow / Financial Times
Why 2 Is the Best Number and Other Secrets from a MacArthur-Winning Mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood RI ’23, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute / Scientific American

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Radcliffe Magazine | Fall 2022

Radcliffe Magazine | Spring/Summer 2022

A pile of colorful buttons advertising pro-life slogans

News from the Schlesinger Library | Winter 2022

Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of bacteria cultured from a human vagina.

Radcliffe Magazine | Fall 2021

James Bladwin looks at the cxamera as he half-hangs off a bed, writing on the floor.

Radcliffe Magazine | Spring 2021

News from the Schlesinger Library | Winter 2021

An illustration of the year 2020 in which each number includes scenes of working from home, a family around a table, a public protest, and a VOTE sign. These are surrounded by car parts, a headstone, a cat, a vigil, food items, stars and planets hnaging from above, and a raging fire.

Radcliffe Magazine | Fall 2020

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Harvard Names Claudine Gay 30th President

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Saying Their Names

Portrait of Sarah Bleich

Sara Bleich Named Vice Provost for Special Projects

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The Myth of the Math Person

History Professor Awarded Humboldt Prize

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Enshrine an Affirmative Right to Vote

Schlesinger Adjusts Plans for Roe v. Wade Commemoration to New Reality

Portrait of Anand Giridharadas

How to Protect Democracy? Don’t Give Up on Your Neighbor.

A crowd of women, with a few holding placards bearing messages about abortion rights; mostly wire hangers with bars avross them, but also one reading "ERA—Equal Rights for the Unborn."

How Roe Got to Be Roe

A woman in a kitchen holds a sword in her right hand and a whole chicken in her left.

Becoming Julia Child

Laughter Graphic Radcliffe

A Funny Thing Happened in Comedy

A smiling woman holds up a badge-covered sash from a Girl Scout uniform.

A Vision of Universal, though Not Integrated, Sisterhood

A Russian McDonald's, its golden arches followed by the name in Cyrillic script

Surprised by Corporate Reaction against Russia?

Mira Nair, wearing a hat and sunglasses, looks through a lens on set.

Mira Nair Comes Full Circle with Donation of Archive

A drone photo of an archaeological site between a large boulder and tree line.

Was Facebook the Original Social Network? Not by a Long Shot

Dean Brown-Nagin outdoors in Radcliffe Yard

Charting the Path of a “Civil Rights Queen”

Peirano Garrison on campus

Finding Modern Issues in Study of Ancient World

Omar Aziz Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Omer Aziz

Alexandra Bell Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Alexandra Bell

Olatunde Dahunsi Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Olatunde Samuel Dahunsi

Omar Dewachi Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Omar Dewachi

Portrait of Tawanna Dillahunt

Tawanna Dillahunt

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant Photo by Lou Jones

Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant

Eun-Ah Kim Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Eun-Ah Kim

Tomoko Shiroyama Photo by Lou Jones

Tomoko Shiroyama

Portrait of Laura Weinrib

Laura Weinrib

08 Feb
2023

Portrait of Karen Bakker

Fellows' Presentation

Wiring Gaia in the Anthropocene: “Smart Earth” Digital Technologies and Environmental Futures

16 Feb
2023

Jennifer Boylan Photo by Lou Jones

The Heisenberg Variations: Imagination, Invention, and Uncertainty

22 Feb
2023

Hong Yang Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Fellows' Presentation

Analyzing Earth’s “Fine Prints”: High-Resolution Geological Records Inform Near Future Climate Change

01 Mar
2023

Omar Dewachi Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Fellows' Presentation

When Wounds Travel: Ecologies of War and Healthcare East of the Mediterranean

08 Mar
2023

Jingyi Jessica Li Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Fellows' Presentation

Clarifying the Mysteries of Choosing Statistical and Machine-Learning Methods in Genomics Research

22 Mar
2023

Portrait of Brodwyn Fischer

Fellows' Presentation

Intimate Inequalities: Informality and the Afterlives of Slavery in Recife, Brazil

27 Mar
2023 16 Oct
2023

2023 Solidarity Exhibit Graphic by Mel Rico

Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now

29 Mar
2023

Jamie Baron Photo by Lou Jones

Fellows' Presentation

Wandering Eye: Shirley Clarke and the Edges of Cinema

05 Apr
2023

Portrait of Asifa Majid

Fellows' Presentation

Language and Thought

12 Apr
2023

Ndubueze Mbah Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Fellows' Presentation

Rebellious Migrants: Forging Abolition, Cosmopolitan Identities, and Postcolonial Spaces in West Africa, 1840–1960

An unfinished, dirt-floored basement with cardboard boxes and several ladders scattered about. At the center, a curved brick structure that contains a tomb.

Here Lies Darby Vassall

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Harvard Appoints Richard Cellini to Lead Legacy of Slavery Remembrance Program

Tracy K. Smith sits smiling atop a conference table, legs crossed.

Giving Voice to Slavery’s Voiceless

Ageism’s Toll in the Age of COVID

Committing to Good, for Good

Portrait of Miguel Syjuco

Salacious Celebrity Tell-All as a Vehicle of Truth

In the foreground, a rough square slab resembling stone. It's slick with water, which pools in its nooks and crannies.

The Sacred, Out of Context

The Ache Beneath

Dsc3158 Medalist Conversation Minow Ifill Tony Rinaldo

Radcliffe Day 2022 in Photos

A geometric painting by Judith Seligson

Newsmakers | Spring/Summer 2022

Uri McMillan stands smiling behind a magenta screen on a construction site.

Friendship-Fueled Art

Allison Daminger outdoors

The Unseen Inequity of Cognitive Labor

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