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Hvalsey Church

Hvalsey Church

Photograph in the public domain

Research

Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise

4.17.23

Salata Institute logo over solar panels

The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.

Logo courtesy of Salata Institute; solar panel photograph by Unsplash

Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.

2.13.23

SEAS entrance

SEAS entrance: the new quarters in Allston

Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine

Claudine Gay announces the advisory committee for successor to Frank Doyle.

2.7.23

Photograph of collected hummingbird nests and eggs

Drawer of diminutive hummingbird nests and eggs

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s revealing birds’ egg and nest collection

March-April 2023

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Photograph from the Princeton University Art Museum/In the Public Domain

How humans hybridize their civilizations

March-April 2023

Harvard Business School campus at its unveiling in 1927

Welcoming Harvard Business School’s new campus—with a warning

Photograph courtesy of HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Buildings and Grounds, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises

March-April 2023

Photograph of a California two-spot octopus

A California two-spot octopus. Octopuses taste what they touch using chemoreceptors in their suckers.

Photograph by Anik Grearson/Bellono Laboratory

Nicholas Bellono probes the biological basis of animal adaptations and behaviors.

March-April 2023

Historic portrait of Henry Clarke Warren

Henry Clarke Warren, 1879
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives

Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899

March-April 2023

Louis Deslauriers seated at a table in front of a blackboard

Louis Deslauriers

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Portrait of an expert in science education and "engaged learning"

March-April 2023