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(1 of 4) The large-screen HELIX system, here deployed in Henry Leitner's Computer Science 1 class, makes it possible for an instructor to teach students who are physically present and see students attending class online, without being confined to a small computer screen at a fixed lectern location; the camera follows the professor and assures that he can be seen effectively by “roomies” and “Zoomies” in a hybrid course.
Courtesy Faculty of Arts and Sciences/ Office of Undergraduate Education
Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists.
Harvard Magazine/JSS
Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Daderot
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
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(1 of 4) The large-screen HELIX system, here deployed in Henry Leitner's Computer Science 1 class, makes it possible for an instructor to teach students who are physically present and see students attending class online, without being confined to a small computer screen at a fixed lectern location; the camera follows the professor and assures that he can be seen effectively by “roomies” and “Zoomies” in a hybrid course.
Courtesy Faculty of Arts and Sciences/ Office of Undergraduate Education
Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists.
Harvard Magazine/JSS
Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Daderot
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School.
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/ Caroline Culler
The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
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