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Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
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The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
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The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
A network of curli fibers (produced by genetically altered E. coli bacteria) can bind to intestinal surfaces, where it acts like a Band-Aid, and can even deliver probiotic therapies.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard UniversityNeel Joshi harnesses bacteria to build products sustainably.
Super-resolution microscopy developed in the lab of Peng Yin allows researchers using conventional microscopes to see the inner workings of cells at the single molecule level. Above, microtubules (green) and mitochondria (purple) dominate the intracellular landscape.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard UniversityPeng Yin uses the physical properties of DNA to illuminate life’s smallest parts.
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The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
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Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
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Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard MagazineAnnette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
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New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era
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Opportunities for self-improvement, and fun, at and around Harvard
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Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton
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What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
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Photograph by Stu RosnerConnecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
Bearden’s stance in this ca. 1940 photograph prefigures his self-portrait in his collage Artist With Model in Studio (shown below), painted three decades later.
Photograph by Sam Shaw, ca. 1940s / Courtesy of the Romare Bearden FoundationBrief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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Land-use restrictions lead to growing income disparities between states, Kennedy School researchers find.
The breeding behavior of tropical cuckoos, in which unrelated adults share a communal nest, proves an exception to the theory of kin selection.
Harvard scientists have developed a tiny, lightweight, distortion-free lens that focuses light without glass.
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The institutional master plan notification form Harvard filed in October 2012 no longer relies on debt-financing or unrealistic endowment payouts.
A blunt picture of universities' altered circumstances—and a forecast of changed operations to come
A reporting change reflects the upheaval in Harvard's finances.
From the pages of the <i>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</i> and <i>Harvard Magazine</i>
The first University-wide Sustainability Impact Report reveals challenging goals.
I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.
The Undergraduate discovers that doubt is the place from which to start.
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In <i>Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History,</i> George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
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The dazzling beauty and strangely human behavior of one of the world’s most diverse bird families.
Alumni, an alumna, and a former Law School professor will join the 113th Congress.
Rachel Cox ’74 pays written tribute to an uncle and his friends with <i>Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army.</i>
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