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Daishi Miguel Tanaka ’19
Photography by Ela Chavez ’21DACA recipient Daishi Miguel Tanaka '19 graduated last month without his parents in attendance.
Institutions and innovation districts in the Boston area
From the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus Framkework Plan
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.
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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Long-term investors fall to short-term thinking.
Illustration by Dan Page
The largest-ever study of twins quantifies the respective influence of genes and environment on specific diseases.
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From left: Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland, Dan H. Fenn Jr., Tamara Elliott Rogers
Photographs from left by: Jim Harrison; Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jim HarrsionFor extraordinary service to the University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Lael Brainard, Joseph Nye, Jane Lubchenco, Carroll Bogert, and Roger Ferguson
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Contributions to society from graduate research
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Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
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The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Sashimi carpaccio
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Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
Courtesy of Rebecca Tolkoff, @BeccasFitnessMind
Your guide to the best summertime activities
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Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
Stephen Jay Gould
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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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.
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
©2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image from the Bridgeman Art LibraryA Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
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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Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
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A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
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Zara Zhang ’17, the Steiner Undergraduate Editorial Fellow for the summer of 2015, is a Currier House resident and psychology concentrator from Changchun, China.
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What Makes Teams Tick
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
How Harvard Has Changed How I Eat
Harvard students’ unparalleled passion for free food is something that I found unbelievable at first.
A Houghton Library postcard designed to attract undergraduates in computer science to its resources
Courtesy of Emilie Hardman.
Internet-era Students, Meet Rare Books
The Houghton Library undergraduate fellowship supports a summer immersion in its collections.
Cynthia Cheung, You-Myeong Kim '17, Kunho Kim '17, and Brad Riew '17 in San Francisco in July 2014, at the beginning of their cross-country road trip.Photography courtesy of Kunho Kim
An Adventure On Wheels
In 20 States On Wheels, Harvard students celebrate wheelchair travel.
Disturbed, Not Surprised: Students Respond to Sexual-Conduct Survey
Findings suggest a lack of faith in Harvard’s administration
The use of mobile phone data (left) proved more accurate for estimating the spatial spread of dengue fever than a traditional diffusion model (right).
Graphic from Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan, published by PNAS
Big Data Takes on Dengue Fever
A School of Public Health study uses cell-phone records to predict the spread of dengue fever.
Among the contributors (clockwise from top left): Ellen Chubin Epstein, Adam Fratto, Renee Covi, Steven Erlanger, Lina S. Scroggins, Lynda Cohen Loigman, Viet D. Dinh, and Susan D. Wojcicki
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How To Harvard—Advice From 14 College Alumni
Harvard Magazine asked recent reunioners to reflect on their undergraduate experience.
Erin Moore and her bicultural guide (below)
Photograph by Fiona Saunders
A Lover of All Things English
Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.
Illustration by Mike Lester
“Cowboy Doctors” and Health Costs
Overly aggressive physicians account for significant healthcare cost, according to a recent study.
Fossil river deltas on Mars, such as this one in Eberswalde Crater, bear many similarities to river deltas on Earth. Such features suggest that Mars once had flowing liquid water on the surface, motivating study of the planet’s early climate.
Photograph by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
New Light on Ancient Mars Climate
Researchers suspect ancient Martian climate was cold and icy.
The iconic John Harvard statue
Photograph by Jorge Salcedo/iStock
How Clean Is John Harvard?
To touch or not to touch—that is the question.
A pop-up version of Alice by artist Robert Sabuda that contains two complete, accurate decks of play cards
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library/Harvard College Library
New York, NY: Little Simon, c2003. Typ 2070.03.7636. Gift, William H. Bond, 2004.
Celebrating Alice
Houghton Library exhibition chronicles 150 years of Alice in Wonderland.
In the film, David Thorpe does voice exercises designed to make him sound "less gay."
Photograph courtesy of IFC Films
A Gay Man Asks A Tough Question
David Thorpe’s new film Do I Sound Gay? de-stigmatizes the “gay voice.”
Chinese high-school students taking pictures of the John Harvard statue
Photograph by Zara Zhang/Harvard Magazine
When Harvard Becomes “Ha Fu”
How Harvard is regarded in China, America’s largest source of international students