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Stephanie Paulsell, interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church
Photograph by Jeffrey Blackwell
Stephanie Paulsell is the successor, for now, to Jonathan Walton.
A crow holds a stick tool during its downtime from the experiment.
Photograph by Dakota McCoy
Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
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A crow holds a stick tool during its downtime from the experiment.
Photograph by Dakota McCoy
Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
Upsolve co-founder Rohan Pavuluri (right) and summer staffer Nick Brown are Crimson activists helping those in the red.
Courtesy of Upsolve
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
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Dwight Miller
Photograph by Jim Harrison
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
The author and fellow activists at a Divest Harvard rally this past April: (from left) Caleb Schwartz ’20, Flores-Jones, Anand Bradley ’19, Owen Torrey ’21, Eva Rosenfeld ’21, and Sophia Higgins ’21
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
An activist on activism, in college and after
Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
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Upsolve co-founder Rohan Pavuluri (right) and summer staffer Nick Brown are Crimson activists helping those in the red.
Courtesy of Upsolve
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
Alice Hill
Photograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard Alumni Association president Alice Hill ’81, Ph.D. ’91
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(click on arrow at right to see full image) A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific InstrumentsNew Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
The seventeenth-century Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts
Photograph courtesy of the Fairbanks HouseDedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
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(1 of 4) Mak designed lighting for a 2019 staging of The Bridges of Madison County by the Philadelphia Theater Company.Photograph by Rich Hein
Lighting and set designer Elizabeth Mak communicates stories.
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(1 of 2) In “Reneepoptosis,” by animator Renee Zhan, three versions of the artist go on a quest for God, traversing an unfamiliar terrain that turns out to be her own body.Film still courtesy of Renee Zhan
Animator Renee Zhan finds self-discovery in strange landscapes.
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock PhotoPleasures to explore in and around Worcester
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(1 of 6) A child’s horse-drawn carriage dating to1907, from the Wenham Museum’s new exhibit
Photograph courtesy of Peter G. Gwinn/Wenham MuseumEquestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock PhotoPleasures to explore in and around Worcester
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Turkeys, tourists, traditions, tranquility
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Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe
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Photograph by Stu RosnerDavid Damrosch’s literary global reach
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
James M. Thresher/Washington Post/Getty ImagesCapital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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