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Institutions and innovation districts in the Boston area
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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.
Adams House, encompassing buildings ranging from Colonial America to Harvard’s Depression-era creation of the House system (and trisected by city streets), poses design and construction challenges.
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The four-year renewal Adams will run far longer than any of the other House projects.
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Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.
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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
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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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Your guide to the best summertime activities
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Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
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Kay KennyPhotographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
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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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Letters
Harvard Magazine's new layout explained
A letter from President Faust
Recognizing two outstanding contributors to the magazine's contents during 2013
Letters on patience and learning, Edward Everett, House life
Right Now
Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
From supporting farmers to probing policy, Harvard people help Myanmar remake its future.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, and Radcliffe Institute detail campaign goals
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
A larger deficit and continuing Harvard financial challenges—amid fundraising and rising expenses
The Harvard Corporation changes, Rhodes Scholars, new University Professor, Nobelists, and more
Montage
Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Boston Community Capital's DeWitt Jones promotes affordable housing, energy efficiency, and a mortgage buyback program in low-income communities.
Boston's Dudley Square is a focus of nonprofit community development often led by David Price, executive director of Nuestra Comunidad
Harvard students who help enhance the quality of life in the dorms win Aloian Awards
Claudia Bedrick ’85 of Enchanted Lion Books offers an international array of stories to young children.
The Harvard Architectural and Urban Society_Alumni Shared Interest Group
An ’09 couple, Michael and Allie Schachter, help child victims of human trafficking in India.
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