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Bees Extend Legs for Stability

Video clips reveal the strategy orchid bees use to maintain stability when flying in turbulent conditions.

Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece, reconstructed

Sixty paintings once adorned the altarpiece of a Franciscan church in the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro. View illustrations from the modern-day reconstruction.

Institutional factors have eased the way for Harvard students to go abroad.

Institutional factors have made it easier for Harvard students to go abroad.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The iconic <i>Silence=Death</i> neon sign, 1987, by the Silence=Death Project, appropriated (and inverted) the pink triangle used by Nazis to identify known homosexuals; the message, in poster form, preceded the formation of ACT UP. This is a copy of the original from the collection of the New Museum, New York.

From AIDS Activism to Art

View video from an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museum that explores the visual legacy of ACT UP’s campaign to galvanize action against a new epidemic.

Photograph by Giovanni Trambusti, courtesy of I Tatti

Reconstructed Sassetta altarpiece

Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.

by Christopher Reed

David Wax plays <i>jaranas,</i> Mexican guitars of various sizes

David Wax’s band plays Mexican folk music.

David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.

Professors and students create video and multimedia

Faculty members are adapting the traditional lecture format with visual and multimedia elements--a new form of teaching. View examples of twenty-first-century pedagogy now in use in Harvard classrooms.

October 31, 2009: Harvard 42, Dartmouth 21

Two running backs combine for 239 yards and five touchdowns.

by Bethell, John T

Photograph by Ian MacLellan

Students in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier: read 10 student profiles, view photos, and more.

Junior quarterback Collier Winters, who made his first varsity start in the Holy Cross opener, passed for two touchdowns and ran for a third in a 24-21 victory over Brown. For his play in the Brown game, Winters was named Ivy League offensive player of the week.

Harvard football 2009: Holy Cross, Brown, Lehigh

Football kicks off against Holy Cross, Brown, and Lehigh

by Bethell, John T

1968 Harvard-Yale game documentary on DVD

A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.

Oluwadara Johnson ’10 organized a performing-arts-themed camp for disadvantaged girls last summer in Ibadan, Nigeria. Here, she picks up the girls from a meeting point to bring them to the site of the camp.

Oluwadara Johnson runs a performing-arts-themed camp for girls in Nigeria

In her home city of Ibadan, Nigeria, Oluwadara Johnson ’10 runs a performing-arts-themed camp for disadvantaged girls.

by Elizabeth Gudrais