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  Adams House Advances
  
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  Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
  
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  2.13.19
  
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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.
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  March-April 2019
  
  The Persistence of Pain
  
  A former pain patient warns against overcorrection in the rush to reduce opioid prescriptions.
  
  March-April 2019
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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.
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  Adams House Advances
  
  A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
  
  2.21.19
  
  Undergraduate Education Agendas
  
  Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
  
  March-April 2019
  
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  Adjacent but Unequal
  
  Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
  
  March-April 2019
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  Of Dumplings, Bok Choy, and the Politics of Emoji
  
  Jennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
  
  2.14.19
  
  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.
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  March-April 2019
  
  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
  
  March-April 2019
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  Home Sweet Home: Transform Your Space for Spring
  
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  March-April 2019
  
  Enjoy an early spring stroll at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary.
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  Mass Audubon Ushers in the Spring
  
  Exploring nature through Mass Audubon
  
  March-April 2019
  
  Last year, ArtWeek featured “art in the dark” projections on Boston Common.
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  ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts
  
  March-April 2019
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  Echoes of 1969
  
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  March-April 2019
  
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  Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
  
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  2.13.19
  
  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.
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  What a Human Should Be
  
  Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
  
  March-April 2019
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  Hockey champion A.J. Mleczko in the broadcast booth
  
  March-April 2019
  
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  Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith navigates players’ gender and sexual identity, mental health, and other challenging social issues.
  
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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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