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(1 of 4) Adams House, encompassing buildings ranging from Colonial America to Harvard’s Depression-era creation of the House system (and trisected by city streets), poses design and construction challenges as renewal nears.Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle
A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
Jennifer 8. Lee
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Jennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
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Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
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(1 of 4) Adams House, encompassing buildings ranging from Colonial America to Harvard’s Depression-era creation of the House system (and trisected by city streets), poses design and construction challenges as renewal nears.Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle
A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
Anthony Abraham Jack
Photograph by Jill Anderson
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
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Jennifer 8. Lee
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Jennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
The multitalented Edward Gorey in September 1977, on the distinctive set he designed for the Broadway production of Dracula—for which he won a Tony Award for best costume design
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An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
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Pianist Angela Hewitt
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Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Howardena Pindell’s Untitled #4D
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Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
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Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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A.J. Mleczko interviews Buffalo Sabre Jason Pominville before a November game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Her broadcasting career began in 2005 with a cold call from NBC.
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Hockey champion A.J. Mleczko in the broadcast booth
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Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith and basketball alumnae on gender, leadership, and sports: a Harvard Magazine panel
Kathy Delaney-Smith (shown here during the January 19 win over Dartmouth) has helped her players navigate many off-court challenges.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith navigates players’ gender and sexual identity, mental health, and other challenging social issues.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
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(1 of 5) State police gather in front of Widener Library near sunrise on April 10.
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Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
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Harvard’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg
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At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, physician Scott Weiner has worked to improve emergency-room guidelines for issuing opioid prescriptions.
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Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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To accommodate Harvard Law School’s large new building, an existing garage and dormitory had to be razed. But three historic wooden buildings were saved, making a gingerly trip up the closed Massachusetts Avenue on the weekend of June 23-25—their weight carefully distributed to avoid collapsing the Red Line subway tunnel underneath. For more on summer campus construction, see "Scaffolding and Science."
