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“It’s kind of like when you go to the library to check out one book, but it’s actually the book next to the book you were looking for that was the important one. A syllabus sets up that opportunity.”
Winthrop House interim faculty deans Mary Herlihy-Gearan and Mark Gearan
Photograph by Kevin Colton
After a tumultuous semester, Mark and Mary Herlihy-Gearan take up the reins.
A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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“It’s kind of like when you go to the library to check out one book, but it’s actually the book next to the book you were looking for that was the important one. A syllabus sets up that opportunity.”
A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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Bridget Terry Long
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
Dani Rodrik
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
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”
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Kay Kenny
Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Sashimi carpaccio
Photograph courtesy of Kamakura
Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
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An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
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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.
A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
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Kay Kenny
Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
Alexander Rehding
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Peabody professor of music, in brief
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
Stephen Jay Gould
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
From the archives
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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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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Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop,©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
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Pink Cactus
Kay Kenny
Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
In De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, published in 1543, Copernicus revealed a mathematical explanation of the heliocentric model—a major shift in scientific understanding.
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University
An exhibition in Houghton Library shows Apollo 11 in context, and at its most intimate.
Log-based cavities host nesting bees at the Arnold Arboretum.
Photograph by Jessica Lau
Greater Boston’s bee cultures
Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
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Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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A jar from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo culture, 1898 or earlierObject courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Pliable arts from across the continent
