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In admissions lawsuit, a test for affirmative action at Harvard and in higher education
Raj Chetty
Photograph courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Chetty is a global leader in research on inequality and social mobility.
Martha Minow
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Former Law School dean receives Harvard’s highest academic appointment.
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Illustration by James Yamasaki
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Elsie Sunderland
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
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A FOP group looks out over a lake in New Hampshire, August 2015.
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Kenton Shimozaki ’19 reflects on lessons learned at Harvard’s First-Year Outdoor Program.
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
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Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Amory, Francis, Sandi, and Alex Blake pause briefly for a family portrait…
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Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
Portrait of Moorfield Storey by John Singer Sargent, 1917. Charcoal on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of James Moorfield Storey
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
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The daylily garden
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Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
Photograph by Len Levasseur
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
If I was standing alone I wouldn’t stand it at all (2017)
Photograph by Jason Wyche; © Kevin Beasley
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
Photograph courtesy of SPiNE
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Soyoung Lee
Photograph by Audrey Kotkin
Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
Tom Morello at a 2016 show in Inglewood, California
Photograph by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.
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Harvard Athletics overhauls coaches’ compensation.
Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Late winter and early spring highlights
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Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged
Courtesy of Penelope Laurans
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Research
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
6.11.18
Raj Chetty
Photograph courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Chetty is a global leader in research on inequality and social mobility.
Illustration by James Yamasaki
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
Overharvesting threatens global fisheries with collapse.
Photograph by Getty Images
A worldwide decline in wild saltwater-fish populations threatens subsistence fishermen and the communities they feed.
Elsie Sunderland
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Phil Torrey
Photograph courtesy of Phil Torrey
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
A student protest during the 1968 Commencement
Courtesy of The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
