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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
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Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
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Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, Kumo, has survived 13 years with lung cancer.
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Mara Sidmore, artistic director of Applied Theatre Practice at the Bok Center
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A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
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Readers comment on training teachers, global health, climate change, and more
President Faust on Harvard athletes’ international outreach
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Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
<p class="caption"> A poster invites citizens to protect protesters from attacks at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, in Kiev during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests.</p>
<p class="credit">Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library</p>
One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard
<p class="caption">A serpentine proximal tubule (light pink) snakes through the center of a multi-layer network of blood vessels (hot pink), all created using a 3-D printer.</p>
<p class="credit">Image from Scientific Reports</p>
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
SKALA SIKAMINEAS, LESBOS, GREECE
Refugees from Syria rest on the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos. Thousands of refugees cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey in rubber boats every day, fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
A Syrian refugee who came to Lesbos that week by one of many boats told me his new life had just started. “New life as a human being,” he added.
I hope he will not question this emotional sentence on the long way to a new home even though there are signs from the first seconds of their arrival that the refugees didn’t land in a paradise.
Every boat that comes to the island is greeted by two groups. There are dedicated volunteers who work in shifts during day and night to help refugees in their first hours in Europe—and then there are also groups of “engine hunters,” as they are called here. Very often they come first. They only care for the boat. The engines are removed before the last person is taken care of. Business is business.
It was a long week full of almost surreal scenes…
Photograph by Maciek Nabrdalik
A Nieman Fellow documents the perilous passage of refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe.
Williamina Fleming
Portrait courtesy of Special Collections, Fine Arts Library/Harvard University
Brief life of a spectrographic pioneer: 1857-1911
<p class="caption">Deidre Lynch in her book-lined Barker Center office</p>
<p class="credit">Photograph by Stu Rosner</p>
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature
Readers comment on training teachers, global health, climate change, and more
President Faust on Harvard athletes’ international outreach
Tuition income—and what the College can and ought to charge
Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
<p class="credit">Illustration by Ken Orvidas</p>
Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.
Asim Khwaja’s experiments in taxation aim to buttress the legitimacy of government in developing nations.
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Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue
The screening of Kent Garrett’s Black GI
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Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive
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Night Song soothes the soul at First Church in Cambridge.
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<p class="caption">Picketing and strike signs appeared on campus for the first time this millennium as dining-hall workers sought a new contract.</p>
<p class="credit">Courtesy of UNITE HERE Local 26</p>
A strike, negotiations, and a vote on wages, benefits, and union recognition
A 30 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions is achieved; a 2050 goal appears more challenging.
<p class="credit">Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications</p>
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<p class="caption">From left: Michael Balboni, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Tracy A. Balboni</p>
<p class="credit">Photograph by Stu Rosner</p>
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Harvard’s congressional contingent gains five new members.
<p class="caption">Frustrated in regulation by Princeton defenders such as Luke Catarius, Harvard’s quarterback Joe Viviano prevailed in overtime, diving for a one-yard touchdown that gave the Crimson a 23-20 victory.</p>
<p class="credit">Matthew Deshaw/The Harvard Crimson</p>
After living on the edge, the football team confronts a shocking season-ending upset.
<p class="caption">The title character of <i>Madame White Snake</i> and her companion, in the opera's prologue</p>
<p class="credit">Photograph by James Daniel/Courtesy of Beth Morrison Projects</p>
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
Clint Smith
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“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
<p class="caption">The Classical Theatre of Harlem premiered <i>Fit for a Queen,</i> Shamieh's most recent play, in October.
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<p class="credit">Photograph by Leland Durond Thompson</p>
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
<p class="caption">A contemporary rendering of the Springfield arsenal attack during Shays’s Rebellion—a shaping event for the Founders</p>
<p class="credit">Image from Bridgeman Images</p>
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
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<p class="caption"> A poster invites citizens to protect protesters from attacks at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, in Kiev during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests.</p>
<p class="credit">Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library</p>
One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard