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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the 19th century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Prineha Narang (right), assistant professor of computational materials science, works with a student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Photograph by Eliza Grinnell, SEAS
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 screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the 19th century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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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.
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A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the 19th century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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Evelyn Richmond and Arsen Charles
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Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Arsen Charles ’42 led the 2019 alumni parade.
Bridget Terry Long
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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.
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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
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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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.
The master architects: Hall for Worship of the Ancestors, Beijing, early fifteenth century with many later repairs
Photograph by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chinese refugees stream through the wrecked streets of Chongqing, heavily bombed by the Japanese from 1938 to 1943 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Photograph from Central Press/Getty Images
The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
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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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