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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the 19th century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Prineha Narang (right), assistant professor of computational materials science, works with a student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Photograph by Eliza Grinnell, SEAS
The Office of Technology Development hosts a Palo Alto venture-capital night for Harvard startups.
Prominent economist placed on leave for two years, then on probation.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the 19th century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Photograph by Barcin/iStock
A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the 19th century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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Dani Rodrik
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Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
As a performer, Lauderdale is often the center of attention. With Meow Meow, he embraces a supportive role.
Photograph by Autumn de Wilde
Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale is at his best bringing people together.
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Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Sashimi carpaccio
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Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
Courtesy of Rebecca Tolkoff, @BeccasFitnessMind
Your guide to the best summertime activities
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An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
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A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
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Prince Shōtoku at Age Two, a thirteenth-century Japanese icon made of wood with inlaid quartz eyesImage courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr., 2019.122.
A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
Alexander Rehding
Photograph by Stu RosnerThe Peabody professor of music, in brief
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
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On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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The Farlow Library's new online exhibits highlight the death cap mushroom and mycological illustration.
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Harvard professors and students take aim at the social and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV.
Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.
Father and son, lawyer and philosopher debate torture, surveillance, and presidential power
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Neurobiologist Michael Greenberg investigates how memories form at a molecular level, and discovers a new class of RNA.
Robert Pringle says the grid-like distribution of Kenyan termite mounds helps answer an old question about ecosystems.
David Scadden studies the environmental cues that can cause normal cells to become diseased.
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As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.
Revised promotion policies transform younger faculty members' lives—and promise sweeping changes in the professoriate as a whole.
Executive vice president Katie Lapp is swiftly altering the ways Harvard budgets, builds, computes, and more.
Headlines from Harvard history
Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals
The Undergraduate, halfway through the College, finds time speeding up, in academics and in life.
Two sterling student writers join the magazine as Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.
Montage
Painter George Oommen creates distinctive images of Kerala, India—his homeland. With video of the artist at work.
Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's breakthrough in understanding newborns as complex, capable beings
Francine Prose writes fiction and nonfiction in many forms. With an audio clip of the author discussing her writing process.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Alumni
Harvard Alumni Association president Robert R. Bowie Jr. is passionate about the “Harvard network.”
President Drew Faust will welcome attendees as the Shared Interest Group hosts its inaugural conference (October 15-17).
Nine alumni will be recognized by the College admissions office for their long and loyal service in recruiting and interviewing prospective students.
Early fall Shared Interest Group events
Entrepreneur and author Michael Fertik aims to help folks keep their reputations safe online.
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The Farlow Library's new online exhibits highlight the death cap mushroom and mycological illustration.