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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.
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Screenshot by Harvard MagazineArtist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
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Screenshot by Harvard MagazineHarvard medical- and dental-school graduates on the front lines of a worldwide crisis
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli and Mezuo O. Nwuneli
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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.
Evelynn Hammonds and Paul Farmer
A conversation on health disparities, with Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds
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A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more
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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
“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) 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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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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Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
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(1 of 3) “God’s Trombones, Harlem,” 2009
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“The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” at Harvard
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(1 of 7) Sheila Jordan performs with the Yoko Miwa Trio at The Mad Monkfish, in Cambridge.Photograph by Janice Tsai
A look at the live-music scene: traditional trios to experimental student performers
Ali Sethi brings the Sanders Theatre crowd to its feet during a concert last spring. His Harvard mentor, Ali Asani (right, in suit and tie), joined him on stage.
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Singer Ali Sethi finds his voice in classical Pakistani music.
Claire Chase (left, on contrabass flute) and students (Jessica Shand, Jennifer Wang, Mai Nguyen, and Taiga Ultan), all on flutes, play a work by Vijay Iyer during the ArtLab's opening celebration.
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The ArtLab debuts.
Alexander Rehding
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The Peabody professor of music, in brief
As a performer, Lauderdale is often the center of attention. With Meow Meow, he embraces a supportive role.
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Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale is at his best bringing people together.
Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
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The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.