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The Lowell House bells, on hiatus during construction, are now open for business.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Historic Lowell House’s renovations bring a mixture of old and new, painstakingly refurbished and constructed.
President Bacow commissions an external review in the wake of the Jorge Domínguez case.
A spirited moment for the women's lacrosse players. Harvard athletics plays an important role in the lives of the nearly one-fifth of undergraduates who participate in intercollegiate sports.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Dean Claudine Gay focuses on student experience, sports culture, and strategic planning.
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The question is no longer if, but when and how.
A crow holds a stick tool during its downtime from the experiment.
Photograph by Dakota McCoy
Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
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The class of 2023 displays its class year banner for the first time.
Photograph by Nina Pasquini
First-year Convocation for the class of 2023
Dwight Miller
Photograph by Jim Harrison
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
The author and fellow activists at a Divest Harvard rally this past April: (from left) Caleb Schwartz ’20, Flores-Jones, Anand Bradley ’19, Owen Torrey ’21, Eva Rosenfeld ’21, and Sophia Higgins ’21
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
An activist on activism, in college and after
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Upsolve co-founder Rohan Pavuluri (right) and summer staffer Nick Brown are Crimson activists helping those in the red.
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Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
Elizabeth Thomas at home with her own small dogs, Chapek and Kafka, and her son’s large dog, Clover, whom she watches when he is away.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock Photo
Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
(click on arrow at right to see full image) A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
The seventeenth-century Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts
Photograph courtesy of the Fairbanks House
Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
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(1 of 4) Mak designed lighting for a 2019 staging of The Bridges of Madison County by the Philadelphia Theater Company.Photograph by Rich Hein
Lighting and set designer Elizabeth Mak communicates stories.
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(1 of 2) In “Reneepoptosis,” by animator Renee Zhan, three versions of the artist go on a quest for God, traversing an unfamiliar terrain that turns out to be her own body.Film still courtesy of Renee Zhan
Animator Renee Zhan finds self-discovery in strange landscapes.
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
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Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
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Just another hurdle: Leaping over guard Eric Wilson (68), Harvard running back Aaron Shampklin sails through a hole last season against Princeton. Shampklin had a breakout season in 2018, leading the Ivy League in rushing with 105.3 yards per game.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Prospects, rules changes, a Rose Bowl centennial, pro players, a return from a shattering injury—and a tragic loss
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(1 of 6) A child’s horse-drawn carriage dating to1907, from the Wenham Museum’s new exhibit
Photograph courtesy of Peter G. Gwinn/Wenham Museum
Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
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Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
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Turkeys, tourists, traditions, tranquility
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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Prince Shōtoku at Age Two, a thirteenth-century Japanese icon made of wood with inlaid quartz eyesImage courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr., 2019.122.
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A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
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Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
Last year, ArtWeek featured “art in the dark” projections on Boston Common.
Photographs courtesy of ArtWeek
ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.
Dancers Twyla Tharp and Graciela Figueroa in After ‘Suite’ (1969)
Photograph by Jack Mitchell
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, stage center at Sanders Theatre, congratulate, thank, and celebrate the performers at the Thursday evening inaugural concert and performances.
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Students, faculty members, and visiting artists perform music, song, drama, and even a work of visual art in real time.
Madelyn Ho during a playful moment in Esplanade, one of choreographer Paul Taylor’s most famous works
Photograph by Paul B. Goode
Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.
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HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
Choreographer Claudia Schreier, in rehearsal
Photograph by Rosalie O’Connor
A choreographer's career, taking shape
Elizabeth Claire Walker in “Arabian Dance” from The Nutcracker
Photograph by Reed Hutchinson/Los Angeles Ballet
A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls
