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The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
2.11.19
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCJennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
Min Jin Lee
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“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
Martha Whitehead
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A new leader for the library system
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Min Jin Lee
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“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
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Semma Therapeutics CEO Bastiano Sanna with Xander University Professor Douglas Melton, scientific founder of the startup. The company is working to commercialize a diabetes therapy.
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Robust licensing revenue and corporate alliances boost translational research.
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Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
Anthony Abraham Jack
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Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCJennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
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Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
The multitalented Edward Gorey in September 1977, on the distinctive set he designed for the Broadway production of Dracula—for which he won a Tony Award for best costume design
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An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
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Chef Vinh Le in the kitchen
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Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine
Pianist Angela Hewitt
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Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
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Min Jin Lee
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“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeExploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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A.J. Mleczko interviews Buffalo Sabre Jason Pominville before a November game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Her broadcasting career began in 2005 with a cold call from NBC.
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Hockey champion A.J. Mleczko in the broadcast booth
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Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith and basketball alumnae on gender, leadership, and sports: a Harvard Magazine panel
Kathy Delaney-Smith (shown here during the January 19 win over Dartmouth) has helped her players navigate many off-court challenges.
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Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith navigates players’ gender and sexual identity, mental health, and other challenging social issues.
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A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard
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Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
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(1 of 5) State police gather in front of Widener Library near sunrise on April 10.
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Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
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Since 2016, says showrunner David Mandel, shown here with Veep stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale (below), it has become increasingly difficult for the show to outrun reality.
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Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.
Nell Scovell
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TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
Colin Jost (left) with his co-host, Michael Che, at the Weekend Update desk for Saturday Night Live
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Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
From left: Sam (Annie Parisse), Nick (Nat Faxon), Ethan (Keegan-Michael Key), Lisa (Cobie Smulders), Marianne (Jae Suh Park), Max (Fred Savage), and Felix (Billy Eichner)
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The real tragedy underlying Friends from College stems from the indignities of the post-recession economy.
Jaunts to Nashville and Italy aside, Master of None stays, and is filmed, in New York City. On set in the subway, castmates Lena Waithe (left) and James Ciccone confer with co-creators Aziz Ansari and Yang.
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Alan Yang serves up warm, epicurean comedy.
Documentarian Kent Garrett ’63 returned to Harvard last fall for a screening of his work.
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How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential
Octavia Spencer at a screening of Hidden Figures at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
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The actress will attend the Hasty Pudding's festivities on January 26.
Lee leaps down the stage with co-star Kelli O’Hara in The King and I’s iconic polka, “Shall We Dance?”
Photograph by Paul Kolnik
An actor’s rule on stage and screen