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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.
Courtesy Faculty of Arts and Sciences/ Office of Undergraduate Education
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.
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
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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Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.
Ellen Langer rejects binary thinking, embracing instead a “third way.”
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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.
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The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Boston's Piattini Wine Café
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The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
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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.
Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house
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