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Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
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.
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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Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
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.
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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.
Annette Samuels, caught between classes
Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard MagazineAnnette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
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Photograph by Joan Marcus“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater
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The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
Photograph by Binita PatelThe Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
Provincetown’s winter harbor
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President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
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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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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsSexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
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This year's Campus Services holiday breakfast featured a "plant-forward" station.
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Photograph by Timothy Whitmore/Courtesy of Peter Ashton and Arnoldia.Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending
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