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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.
Prominent economist placed on leave for two years, then on probation.
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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.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Long-term investors fall to short-term thinking.
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From left: Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland, Dan H. Fenn Jr., Tamara Elliott Rogers
Photographs from left by: Jim Harrison; Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jim HarrsionFor extraordinary service to the University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Lael Brainard, Joseph Nye, Jane Lubchenco, Carroll Bogert, and Roger Ferguson
Photograph courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Contributions to society from graduate research
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Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Sashimi carpaccio
Photograph courtesy of Kamakura
Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
Courtesy of Rebecca Tolkoff, @BeccasFitnessMind
Your guide to the best summertime activities
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Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
Stephen Jay Gould
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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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.
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”
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Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
©2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image from the Bridgeman Art LibraryA Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
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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Photograph by Allison Kern/Harvard Magazine
A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
Stephen Jay Gould
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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A guide to the arts and culture, history, cuisine, and natural beauty of Cambridge, Boston, and beyond.
Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
Pianist Angela Hewitt
Photograph by Richard Termine
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Howardena Pindell’s Untitled #4D
Image courtesy of the artist and the Rose Art Museum
Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
An example of a quipu from Peru's Nazca Province
Gift of Robert Woods Bliss, 1942 © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM# 42-28-30/4532
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
Dancers Twyla Tharp and Graciela Figueroa in After ‘Suite’ (1969)
Photograph by Jack Mitchell
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
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