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(1 of 4) The large-screen HELIX system, here deployed in Henry Leitner's Computer Science 1 class, makes it possible for an instructor to teach students who are physically present and see students attending class online, without being confined to a small computer screen at a fixed lectern location; the camera follows the professor and assures that he can be seen effectively by “roomies” and “Zoomies” in a hybrid course.
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
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Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists.
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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
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Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.
Illustration by Dan Page
Ellen Langer rejects binary thinking, embracing instead a “third way.”
Vikram Patel, left, speaks with family members of a farmer in Maharashtra, India, who committed suicide.
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Around the globe, Vikram Patel finds, improvements in financial or mental health support both.
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The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
Photograph courtesy of Che R. Applewhaite
The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
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From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
For the energetic Rueb, raising an athlete’s floor is as important as raising his ceiling.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.
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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Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”
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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
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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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Illustration by Robert Neubecker
Active citizens are humanists.
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 evocative Love Potion
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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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An illuminated page showing Abu Zayd and his friend al-Harith, narrator of the Impostures, arriving in a village, from a copy of the Maqamat (“Impostures”) created in Baghdad in 1237 by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti. No portrait of al-Hariri is known to exist.
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Brief life of a master storyteller
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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
Photograph by Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
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.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.
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Martin S. Feldstein
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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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.
Photograph by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images
Eileen Costello says working at a hospital like BMC “is the reason I went to medical school.”
Photograph by Stu Rosner
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.
Photograph by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images
Eileen Costello says working at a hospital like BMC “is the reason I went to medical school.”
Photograph by Stu Rosner
