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DACA recipient Daishi Miguel Tanaka '19 graduated last month without his parents in attendance.
6.20.19
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Daishi Miguel Tanaka ’19
Photography by Ela Chavez ’21DACA recipient Daishi Miguel Tanaka '19 graduated last month without his parents in attendance.
Institutions and innovation districts in the Boston area
From the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus Framkework Plan
Developers receive request for proposals
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A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
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Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth
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Bridget Terry Long
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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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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
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Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
Courtesy of Rebecca Tolkoff, @BeccasFitnessMind
Your guide to the best summertime activities
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An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
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Click on arrow at right to see full statue and additional images
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.
Alexander Rehding
Photograph by Stu RosnerThe Peabody professor of music, in brief
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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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
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Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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Ellen N. La Motte as a young woman
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Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
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Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman, now analyzing interviews from 10 campuses
Photograph courtesy of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
“Trading Floor, 1981.” Ready for the New Era in Financial Markets: Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb.
Courtesy of the Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
A Harvard Business School exhibition traces the rise and Great Recession fall of an iconic investment bank.
Carpenter Center: home to Visual and Environmental Studies, soon to be Art, Film, and Visual Studies—a better name for the work done there
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs & Communications
Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
Are data from massive open online courses a crystal ball into the future of online education?
Data from Science Magazine/Chart by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Ruth Okediji
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A Nigerian-born professor who brings unusual perspective to intellectual-property law
Coming together: Greater Boston biomedical and life-sciences panelists (from left) Eric Lander (Broad Institute), Vasant Narasimhan (Novartis), and Laurie Glimcher (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), with moderator Susan Hockfield (MIT)
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A $200-million gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation paves the way.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines
Land company CEO Thomas P. Glynn and chairman Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New organization, management focus efforts for “enterprise research campus.”