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Matthew Potts, Memorial Church’s new leader
Photograph of Michael Potts by Evgenia Eliseeva; Photograph of Memorial Church courtesy of Wikimedia/Crimson400.
A successor leader of the Memorial Church
Byerly Hall, where the Radcliffe Institute fellows will be able to convene again once fall semester arrives
Photograph courtesy of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Dean Brown-Nagin emphasizes fellows who will “reckon with this moment and its meaning.”
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After renovation, 60 Oxford Street will become the hub for quantum science and engineering at Harvard.
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Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.
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President Bacow releases directive to the community.
Jeremy Lin
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The former NBA star headlines the undergraduates’ virtual celebration May 26.
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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.
Kevin Young
Photograph by Leah L. Jones, Photographer, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
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.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
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The evocative Love Potion
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A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Piattini's sunken patio on Newbury Street, in Boston
Photograph courtesy of Piattini
Boston's Piattini Wine Café
A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
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Juneteenth pride: commemorating June 19 in 2020, in Greenwood, the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of 1921
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Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth
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The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Click on arrow at right to view full image
The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Braxton Shelley
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A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
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A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
Courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum/Milo Stewart Jr. B-50-83
The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
Martin S. Feldstein
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
For the energetic Rueb, raising an athlete’s floor is as important as raising his ceiling.
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Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.
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University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offices, where faculty meetings are held
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Honors teaching excellence, and the memory of Nathan Glazer, in last regular meeting of the academic year
Martin S. Feldstein
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
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Eileen Costello says working at a hospital like BMC “is the reason I went to medical school.”
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The moderator in the middle, as Donald Trump defines “debate” to mean “brawl” in his first face-off with Joe Biden, Cleveland, last September 29.
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Eileen Costello says working at a hospital like BMC “is the reason I went to medical school.”
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The moderator in the middle, as Donald Trump defines “debate” to mean “brawl” in his first face-off with Joe Biden, Cleveland, last September 29.
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