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Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
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Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
10.7.22
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esperanza spalding performing at a White House event
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Professor of practice cites misalignment with Harvard's priorities
The Center for Disease Control’s robust system for tracking the spread of COVID-19 variants show the rapid spread of BQ.1 and BQ1.1, both of which are resistant to the last remaining monoclonal antibody treatments currently available. This creates a new risk for immunocompromised individuals, including those undergoing certain treatments for cancer.
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Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.
Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Hansjörg Wyss
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The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Melanie Wood, Danna Freedman, and Emily Wang
Photographs courtesy of MacArthur Foundation; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A mathematician, a chemist, and a professor of medicine who studies the health effects of incarceration
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
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Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Hansjörg Wyss
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The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Ben S. Bernanke
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Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
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Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
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Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
Celeste Ng
Photograph by Kieran Kesner
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
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(1/5) DOG DAY AFTERNOON Yale's Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog wondered what the ruckus was all about.
Photographs by Julian Giordano/The Harvard Crimson
A tough finish to a quirky season
SPREADING THE WEALTH Enjoying one of the best days for a quarterback in Harvard annals, Charlie Dean (11) surveys the Penn defense. The Crimson senior signal-caller riddled the Quakers, completing 29 of 38 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns while connecting with nine receivers.
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Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!
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(1/4) CRUNCH TIME Harvard's Joe Young is converged upon by a beehive of Columbia tacklers. The Crimson senior wideout snared three passes, one for 22 yards.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonSloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.
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The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
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Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
George Reisner, 1924
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Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
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Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Judith Seligson’s geometric abstractions
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This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.
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During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily Scherlis
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
“/Gaishay focusing the camera,” a photograph taken during a 1957-58 ethnographic expedition in Namibia.
Photograph is a gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM2001.29.15489
Seeking mentorship as a student of color, and finding a calling in the arts