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“Trading Floor, 1981.” Ready for the New Era in Financial Markets: Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb.
Courtesy of the Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
A Harvard Business School exhibition traces the rise and Great Recession fall of an iconic investment bank.
President Bacow speaking at Peking University on March 20
Photograph by Yi Wang/Harvard Center ShanghaiThe president addresses fraught issues at a delicate time in China.
Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
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Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeExploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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Tommy Amaker identifies Justin Bassey ’20 (shown here against North Carolina) as the team's most valuable player.
Photograph by Tim Cowie/Harvard Athletics CommunicationsJunior guard Justin Bassey
The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
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(1 of 4) 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 as renewal nears.Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle
A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCJennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
A.J. Mleczko interviews Buffalo Sabre Jason Pominville before a November game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Her broadcasting career began in 2005 with a cold call from NBC.
Photograph by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images
Hockey champion A.J. Mleczko in the broadcast booth
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Pianist Angela Hewitt
Photograph by Richard Termine
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Howardena Pindell’s Untitled #4D
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Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
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Exterior of the ArtLab
Photograph by Clare O’Keefe
An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection”
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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This year's Ivy League basketball tournaments will be played this weekend at Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater, which seats 2,800 and was the site of a thrilling playoff game between the Harvard and Princeton men in 2011. Photograph by David Silverman/Yale AthleticsInside the debate over where to play the Ivy League basketball tournament
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
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The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
Illustration by Mark Steele
Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
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(1 of 5) State police gather in front of Widener Library near sunrise on April 10.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives. HUA 969.71 Image 3
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
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At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, physician Scott Weiner has worked to improve emergency-room guidelines for issuing opioid prescriptions.
Photograph by Jim HarrisonMedicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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