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The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
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Motions for summary judgment outline plaintiff’s allegation of discrimination, and Harvard’s defense of its admissions program.
Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
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Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Harvard Athletics acknowledges an inequitable disparity between salaries for men and women.
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Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Elsie Sunderland
Photograph by Stu RosnerElsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Overharvesting threatens global fisheries with collapse.
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A worldwide decline in wild saltwater-fish populations threatens subsistence fishermen and the communities they feed.
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Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
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Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Amory, Francis, Sandi, and Alex Blake pause briefly for a family portrait…
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Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Theodore R. Barnett ’41
Photographs by Jim HarrisonSeventy-seventh reunioners Evelyn Richmond and Theodore R. Barnett led the 2018 alumni parade.
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If I was standing alone I wouldn’t stand it at all (2017)
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Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
MAA MoCA is housed in a repurposed industrial mill conplex in North Adams, Masachusetts.
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MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
The daylily garden
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Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
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Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Soyoung Lee
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Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
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Harvard Athletics acknowledges an inequitable disparity between salaries for men and women.
Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
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Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
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Late winter and early spring highlights
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Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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A Broadcast Cornucopia
For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”
A Feel for the Water
Charley Butt succeeds the legendary Harry Parker as Harvard's heavyweight men's crew coach.
Tim Mayotte Joins Harvard Tennis
The former Wimbledon semifinalist aims to improve the Crimson squad’s level of play.
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication
Choosing Confidants
Barbers, bartenders, and beauticians are as privy to our secrets as are family and friends.
Rooks and Reverse Layups
Wesley Saunders of basketball excels at anticipation, just as he did in chess.
Iconoclastic Music Educator
Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.
Bears, Oars, Metaphors
Novelist and outdoorsman John Casey’s two new books look at teaching writing and his athletic exploits.
Disruptive Genius
Innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car
