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At Home with Harvard
Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
12.16.20
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Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and Sarah Siegel Muncey
Photographs courtesy of Neighborhood Villages; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Neighborhood Villages in action, pre- and post-pandemic
Rohingya students arriving at the AUW campus entrance
Photograph courtesy of Kamal Ahmad
Alumni friends collaborate to help students at the Asian University for Women.
Mary Summers
Photograph courtesy of the Corcoran Collective
A documentary from 1970 is re-released and newly relevant.
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Stephanie Gil
Photograph courtesy of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Crafting algorithms to optimize search and rescue operations, delivery drones, and more
Kareem El-Badry at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii
Photograph courtesy of Kareem El-Badry
Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
Jean Eric Salata, Melanie Salata, Adele Fleet Bacow, Lawrence S. Bacow
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University
Vice provost James Stock to direct Harvard’s new Salata Institute
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Supreme Court
Photograph by Unsplash
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
Illustration by Barbara Dekesyer
Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
Illustration by Gwen Keraval
Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
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Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and Sarah Siegel Muncey
Photographs courtesy of Neighborhood Villages; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Neighborhood Villages in action, pre- and post-pandemic
Rohingya students arriving at the AUW campus entrance
Photograph courtesy of Kamal Ahmad
Alumni friends collaborate to help students at the Asian University for Women.
Mary Summers
Photograph courtesy of the Corcoran Collective
A documentary from 1970 is re-released and newly relevant.
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Gazing across symmetrical reflecting pools of the restored Blue Garden
Photograph ©Millicent Harvery/Courtesy of the Blue Garden
Newport's restored landscape
Cruising on the schooner Argia
Photograph courtesy of Argia Mystic Cruises
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Crow’s Nest (1984), by Lanford Monroe
Images courtesy of the Museum of American Bird Art/Mass Audubon
A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary
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Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
Illustration by Barbara Dekesyer
Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, at Field of Wheat, a Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C., in September 2021.
Photograph courtesy of Larysa Kurylas
A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Emily Carmichael
Photograph by Art Streiber for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
Wendy Lesser
Photograph by Glenn Matsumura
The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
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Charles Altchek
Photograph courtesy of MLS Next Pro
Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
Photograph by Michigan Athletics/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
Weld Boat House
Photograph in the public domain
Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
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The Pit
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Reconstruction of a local landmark begins soon.
Schultes at Chiribiquete
Photograph courtesy of the Schultes Family and the Amazon Conservation team
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
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George Bucknam Dorr on the Beachcroft Path on Huguenot Head
Photograph courtesy of Friends of Acadia and the National Park Service and NPS/Archive
George Bucknam Dorr
Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944
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