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Prineha Narang (right), assistant professor of computational materials science, works with a student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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The Office of Technology Development hosts a Palo Alto venture-capital night for Harvard startups.
Prominent economist placed on leave for two years, then on probation.
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A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
Bridget Terry Long
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New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
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New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
Dani Rodrik
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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.
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Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
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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
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An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
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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.
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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.
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On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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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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