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Cellist and teacher Laurence Lesser is celebrating his forty-fifth year at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Photograph by Andrew Hurlbut
Alumni
A cellist and conservatory teacher who has never stopped learning
12.6.18
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Massachusetts transportation officials plan to rebuild Turnpike at grade—opening Harvard parcels.
Are data from massive open online courses a crystal ball into the future of online education?
Data from Science Magazine/Chart by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Statue of John Harvard
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More women in science, and a steady increase in Asian-American admits
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Are data from massive open online courses a crystal ball into the future of online education?
Data from Science Magazine/Chart by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Lapis lazuli pigment entrapped within the dental calculus on the lower jaw of a medieval woman.
Photograph by Christina Warinner
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Illustration by Matt Kenyon
Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.
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Are data from massive open online courses a crystal ball into the future of online education?
Data from Science Magazine/Chart by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Illustration by Michael Parkin/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers the composition of Harvard College.
Photograph by River North Photography/iStock
“None of my friends are going to The Game, which is evidenced by the fact that we’re at IHOP deliberating whether our crêpes should come with lingonberry, and not on a shuttle into Boston.”
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After the harvest, Kelby Russell, who makes cold-climate white wines, stands in a vineyard overlooking New York’s Seneca Lake.
Photograph by Robyn Wishna
Why the vineyards of New York called Kelby Russell home
Liz Glynn
Photograph by Evelena Ruether/Liz Glynn Studio
In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value
Bess Wohl
Photograph by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.
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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
A miniature version of a New England high-post bed (ca. 1750-1765), with historically accurate bed furnishings by Natalie Larson
Object on loan courtesy of Natalie and Bruce Larson
Photograph courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
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A formal wartime portrait
Photograph from the Mathew Brady Collection/Library of Congres
Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885
Affirmative action, donor and staff preferences, and other Harvard College admissions challenges
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Lapis lazuli pigment entrapped within the dental calculus on the lower jaw of a medieval woman.
Photograph by Christina Warinner
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Bess Wohl
Photograph by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.
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Tubing at Nashoba Valley Ski Area
Photograph courtesy of Nashoba Valley Ski Area
Best snow-tubing spots around Greater Boston
Cook’s tour: Harvard wideout Jack Cook leaves Yale’s Deonte Henson in the dust on a third-quarter, 15-yard touchdown. The score gave the Crimson a 28-24 lead, which it would not surrender.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A resilient, crowd-pleasing football season, with talented sophomores surfacing
Cook’s tour: Harvard wideout Jack Cook leaves Yale’s Deonte Henson in the dust on a third-quarter, 15-yard touchdown. The score gave the Crimson a 28-24 lead, which it would not surrender.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonOn the fiftieth anniversary of That Game, Harvard really does beat Yale.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
When the Law School made thin ice…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Re-landscaping Massachusetts Hall, making the entrance to Harvard Yard more welcoming
Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
Photograph by Gary Mottola
The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline
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A formal wartime portrait
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After the harvest, Kelby Russell, who makes cold-climate white wines, stands in a vineyard overlooking New York’s Seneca Lake.
Photograph by Robyn Wishna
Why the vineyards of New York called Kelby Russell home
Liz Glynn
Photograph by Evelena Ruether/Liz Glynn Studio
In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value
Cellist and teacher Laurence Lesser is celebrating his forty-fifth year at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Photograph by Andrew Hurlbut
A cellist and conservatory teacher who has never stopped learning
Merriner with members of the high-school cross-country team from Galena’s Sidney C. Huntington School, named for a legendary Alaska Native outdoorsman and education advocate.
Photograph courtesy of Paul Apfelbeck
In rural Alaska, Jim Merriner runs a school district with a major educational footprint across the state.
For Jill Vialet, photographed at Oakland’s Laurel Elementary School, play and work are nearly synonymous.
Photograph by Eric Kayne
Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess
In the Metropolitan Opera’s scene shop, Sarah Meyers stands calmly next to a monster’s oversized snout.
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
Millicent Todd Bingham looks over her mother’s shoulder in this double portrait from 1931.
Photograph courtesy of the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection (MS 496E). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA