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InThis is Love,filmmakers John Alexander and JC Guest document Rudy Love’s scattered, euphoric, tumultuous life.
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John Alexander follows the ups and downs of funk musician Rudy Love.
4.10.20
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Elijah DeVaughn ’21 marched in Los Angeles last weekend.
Photograph courtesy of Elijah DeVaughnAs demonstrations grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death, students mobilize against racism and police brutality
and the endowment distribution is decreased, as the College completes its plans.
The author (right) sitting with blockmates Mike Shirek (left) and Ernie Omondi (center) as they watched virtual Commencement
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A return to campus, to take in virtual graduation with friends
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Tests in macaques show robust protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus induced by either vaccines or natural infection.
Essential workers at highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection include cab drivers and police officers.
Photograpy by iStockNearly half of early COVID-19 transmission was work-related—a cautionary note as the economy reopens.
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Elijah DeVaughn ’21 marched in Los Angeles last weekend.
Photograph courtesy of Elijah DeVaughnAs demonstrations grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death, students mobilize against racism and police brutality
The author (right) sitting with blockmates Mike Shirek (left) and Ernie Omondi (center) as they watched virtual Commencement
Photograph courtesy of Caroline Englemayer
A return to campus, to take in virtual graduation with friends
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Ceridwen Dovey
Photograph courtesy of Ceridwen DoveyHow Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
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Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
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(1of 7) Old Slater Mill sitePhotograph courtesy of Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Tracing America’s industrial roots in the Blackstone River Valley
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(1 of 3) Exhibits, like this replica of a textile-mill floor, reveal long days of grueling work on dangerous mill machinery.Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Work & Culture
Woonsocket’s historic French-Canadian community
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
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The author is first row, second from left; Professor Mel Chen is second row, second from right.
Screenshot courtesy of Julie Chung“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
A YouTube screenshot from the author’s virtual lab course
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
A plot of Lorenz’s “butterfly effect” model: “curves wrapping themselves wildly around the x and y axes ”
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A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
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Jenny Odell
Screenshot by Harvard MagazineArtist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
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Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
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Erin McDermott
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard Public Affairs and Communications, Harvard UniversityMcDermott will join Harvard from the University of Chicago July 1.
With 2020 winter sports ending early and the spring collegiate season wiped out almost entirely, we look back at some Crimson highlights from past years.
Senior forward Chris Lewis led the Crimson in rebounding, en route to an All-Ivy League Second Team selection.
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Injuries—and the coronavirus—lead to disappointing basketball seasons.
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Ceridwen Dovey
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACWidener Library’s overlooked designer
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Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.
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Jenny Odell
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Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
Ceridwen Dovey
Photograph courtesy of Ceridwen Dovey
How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
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The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.
“Rohan Duck” at Talulla
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Where to (eventually, again) feast with friends and family in Greater Boston
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum