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K. Michael Hays, Sarah Whiting, and faux fireplace at the GSD fireside chat
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A fireside chat with the architects, landscape architects, and urban planners
Yann LeCun
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The physics department confers its Loeb lectureship on an influential non-physicist.
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.
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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.
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(1 of 3) Hansjörg Wyss
Photograph courtesy of the Wyss Institute
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering gets another boost.
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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
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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
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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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Dwight Miller
Photograph by Jim Harrison
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
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September-October 2019
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(1 of 4) David Damrosch
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David Damrosch’s literary global reach
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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Enjoy an early spring stroll at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary.
Photograph courtesy of Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary
Exploring nature through Mass Audubon
Chef Vinh Le in the kitchen
Photograph courtesy of Nem Kitchen
Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine
A serene and snowy moment in historic Portland
Photograph courtesy of Corey Templeton Photography
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
After the harvest, Kelby Russell, who makes cold-climate white wines, stands in a vineyard overlooking New York’s Seneca Lake.
Photograph by Robyn Wishna
Why the vineyards of New York called Kelby Russell home
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
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.
Diners, bar-loungers, and chefs share one big room at Comedor.
Photograph courtesy of Comedor
An intimate place for Chilean-American food in Newton
Pammy’s jewel-box interior
Photograph courtesy of Pammy’s
Best new restaurants in and around Cambridge
