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President Bacow speaking at Peking University on March 20
Photograph by Yi Wang/Harvard Center Shanghai
The president addresses fraught issues at a delicate time in China.
Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
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Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“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.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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Tommy Amaker identifies Justin Bassey ’20 (shown here against North Carolina) as the team's most valuable player.
Photograph by Tim Cowie/Harvard Athletics Communications
Junior guard Justin Bassey
The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
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(1 of 4) Adams House, encompassing buildings ranging from Colonial America to Harvard’s Depression-era creation of the House system (and trisected by city streets), poses design and construction challenges as renewal nears.Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle
A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Jennifer 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.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
Illustration by Gaby D’Alessandro
The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
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Pianist Angela Hewitt
Photograph by Richard Termine
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Howardena Pindell’s Untitled #4D
Image courtesy of the artist and the Rose Art Museum
Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
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Exterior of the ArtLab
Photograph by Clare O’Keefe
An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection”
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“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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This year's Ivy League basketball tournaments will be played this weekend at Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater, which seats 2,800 and was the site of a thrilling playoff game between the Harvard and Princeton men in 2011. Photograph by David Silverman/Yale Athletics
Inside the debate over where to play the Ivy League basketball tournament
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
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The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
Photograph by Brian Smith
Harvard’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg
Photograph by Matthew Monteith
A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard
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At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, physician Scott Weiner has worked to improve emergency-room guidelines for issuing opioid prescriptions.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
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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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The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
Harvardiana
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
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Matthew Meselson
Photograph by Constance Brukin
A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
Dr. Abramson, Dr. Hawking, and the wand
Photograph courtesy of David H. Abramson
A close call on Commencement day
Illustration by Michael Witte
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
David Davidson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
The nine-foot-high depiction of Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870, by sculptor Jon Hair, is the first statue of an individual on the University of South Carolina’s central campus. Its unveiling on February 21 coincided with the inauguration of a symposium in Greener’s honor.
Photograph courtesy of the Office of Communications & Public Affairs, University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.
At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.
Photographs by Lydia Carmichael
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
