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Institutions and innovation districts in the Boston area
From the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus Framkework Plan
Developers receive request for proposals
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A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
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.
Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle
The four-year renewal of Adams will run far longer than any of the other House projects.
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Long-term investors fall to short-term thinking.
Illustration by Dan Page
The largest-ever study of twins quantifies the respective influence of genes and environment on specific diseases.
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For extraordinary service to the University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Lael Brainard, Joseph Nye, Jane Lubchenco, Carroll Bogert, and Roger Ferguson
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Contributions to society from graduate research
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Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
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The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Sashimi carpaccio
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Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
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Your guide to the best summertime activities
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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.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
Stephen Jay Gould
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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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.
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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Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
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A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
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
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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July-August 2019
Ellen N. La Motte as a young woman
Courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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As a performer, Lauderdale is often the center of attention. With Meow Meow, he embraces a supportive role.
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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 brings people together
Truman French and Tucker Pforzheimer amid stacks of prime shiitake-growing oak logs at their Martha’s Vineyard farm
Photograph by Randi Baird Photography
