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A panoramic shot of the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron EDM, a device in the laboratory of Silsbee professor of physics John Doyle that is designed to make measurements of the quantum physical behavior of electrons so precise that the results could change understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Photograph courtesy of John Doyle/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics
Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
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A panoramic shot of the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron EDM, a device in the laboratory of Silsbee professor of physics John Doyle that is designed to make measurements of the quantum physical behavior of electrons so precise that the results could change understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Photograph courtesy of John Doyle/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics
Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
David Reich
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?
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Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Richard Montañez
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University’s Office of Career Services
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
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Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
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
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The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
B & G Oysters
Courtesy of www.bandgoysters.com
A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
Unite or Perish, Chicago (1968), by John Simmons
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs.2018.119
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
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A quilt from the Shape/View series: 2015–2017, all works hand-stitched cotton View III 43×57 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
Shaina Taub sings as militant suffragist Alice Paul.
Photograph by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) Maurice Lalau image for “The Juggler of Notre Dame,” by Anatole France (1924)
Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
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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
On the fiftieth anniversary of That Game, Harvard really does beat Yale.
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
Last lunge: With senior right guard Larry Allen Jr. (73) keeping Penn defenders at bay, Harvard senior back Charlie Booker nudges the ball over the goal line for the Crimson's first score.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A bludgeoning victory in the season’s final road game
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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
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) President Bacow delivers his inaugural address.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The University’s new leader focuses on challenges to higher education in America.
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Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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A quilt from the Shape/View series: 2015–2017, all works hand-stitched cotton View III 43×57 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Arts
Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
11.8.18
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) Maurice Lalau image for “The Juggler of Notre Dame,” by Anatole France (1924)
Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) The stained-glass image of the juggler, commissioned for the exhibition, from Atelier Miller, at the entry to Dumbarton Oaks
Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
“Juggling” literary history at Dumbarton Oaks
Unite or Perish, Chicago (1968), by John Simmons
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs.2018.119
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
Philip Johnson at his iconic modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949
Photograph by Arnold Newman/Liaison Agency/Getty Images
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
Standing tall: Mikimoto Ginza 2, in Tokyo, Japan: one of the new generation of striking highrises
Photograph by Edmund Sumner/View/Alamy Stock Photo
Recent books with Harvard connections
From the Peabody Museum collections, a reduced-scale macaw-feather fan—a burial offering—and its larger model, a real fan
Illustration by Andrew James Hamilton
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Shane McCrae
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
