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Winthrop House interim faculty deans Mary Herlihy-Gearan and Mark Gearan
Photograph by Kevin Colton
After a tumultuous semester, Mark and Mary Herlihy-Gearan take up the reins.
A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Prineha Narang (right), assistant professor of computational materials science, works with a student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Photograph by Eliza Grinnell, SEAS
The Office of Technology Development hosts a Palo Alto venture-capital night for Harvard startups.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Photograph by Barcin/iStock
A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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Dani Rodrik
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
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”
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 is at his best bringing people together.
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
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Kay KennyPhotographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
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The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
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An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
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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.
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
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Pink Cactus
Kay KennyPhotographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
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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
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Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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Ellen N. La Motte as a young woman
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During a quarter-century of engagement in Vietnam's economic development, Harvard scholars create a unique educational institution.
Letters
Attentive Schlesinger, “Bellboys,” bigger data
A letter from the editor
A letter from President Faust
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Under pressure, getting excited yields better results than remaining calm.
Historian Maya Jasanoff says fiction can capture the subjective experience of the past.
John Harvard's Journal
After a multiyear renovation, Harvard Art Museums make ready for a November reopening.
The first analyses of online-course registrants—and "dropouts"—and other MOOC news
Two new Corporation members, College tuition and admissions, Allston teaching spaces, and more
A landmark gift for financial aid, and other campaign gains
Distance runner Maksim Korolev has set Harvard and Ivy League records in cross-country and track.
Harvard’s men’s basketball team lost, 80-73, to Michigan State in the NCAA tournament, giving them a scare.
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