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  The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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  A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
  
  HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
  
  4.21.21
  
  Kevin Young
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  Kevin Young to Address Harvard Alumni Association
  
  The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
  
  4.19.21
  
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  (1 of 4) The large-screen HELIX system, here deployed in Henry Leitner's Computer Science 1 class, makes it possible for an instructor to teach students who are physically present and see students attending class online, without being confined to a small computer screen at a fixed lectern location; the camera follows the professor and assures that he can be seen effectively by “roomies” and “Zoomies” in a hybrid course.
  Courtesy Faculty of Arts and Sciences/ Office of Undergraduate Education
  
  Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester
  
  Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
  
  4.16.21
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  Power, Petitions, and the People
  
  Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.
  
  May-June 2021
  
  Illustration by Dan Page
  
  Is There Better Than Better?
  
  Ellen Langer rejects binary thinking, embracing instead a “third way.”
  
  May-June 2021
  
  Vikram Patel, left, speaks with family members of a farmer in Maharashtra, India, who committed suicide.
  Photograph courtesy of Vikram Patel
  
  Linking Mental and Fiscal Health
  
  Around the globe, Vikram Patel finds, improvements in financial or mental health support both.
  
  May-June 2021
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  Between Harvard and St. Louis
  
  The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
  
  May-June 2021
  
  Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
  Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Daderot
  
  Harvard College Announces Class of 2025 Admissions Decisions
  
  Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
  
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  The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
  
  A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
  
  HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
  
  4.21.21
  
  Kevin Young
  Photograph by Leah L. Jones, Photographer, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
  
  Kevin Young to Address Harvard Alumni Association
  
  The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
  
  4.19.21
  
  From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
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  HAA Honors Three Alumni for Service
  
  Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
  
  4.14.21
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  The evocative Love Potion
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  Alexander Gassel’s “Painted Poetry”
  
  A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
  
  May-June 2021
  
  Piattini's sunken patio on Newbury Street, in Boston
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  Al Fresco
  
  Boston's Piattini Wine Café
  
  May-June 2021
  
  A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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  All American
  
  The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
  
  May-June 2021
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  "Shoddy," maskupmanship, American exceptionalism
  
  May-June 2021
  
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  Balancing past obligations, the pandemic, and the future of Harvard’s core mission
  
  May-June 2021
  
  The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
  Photograph courtesy of Che R. Applewhaite
  
  Between Harvard and St. Louis
  
  The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
  
  May-June 2021
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  The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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  HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
  
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  A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
  
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  A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
  
  May-June 2021
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  A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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  The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
  
  May-June 2021
  
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  Wisdom of the Sages
  
  Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
  
  May-June 2021
  
  For the energetic Rueb, raising an athlete’s floor is as important as raising his ceiling.
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  The Bottomless Sport
  
  Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.
  
  May-June 2021
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  A Gate of Whimsy
  
  At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
  
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The Progress of the Disciplines

Leading professors on the future of their fields

September-October 2011

Pamela Silver

Pamela Silver

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

For Harvard’s 375th anniversary, leading professors predict the future of their fields:

Biology in This Century, by Pamela A. Silver

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century, by Nitin Nohria

Reading Is Elemental, by Helen Vendler

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century, by Cherry A. Murray

Sciences Still Young, by Edward L. Glaeser

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

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