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Portraits top to bottom: Robert P. Young Jr and Edward Manfield
Clockwise from left: Photograph by Gary Blakeley/123RF Stock Images; courtesy of the Michigan Supreme Court, courtesy of the Iowa Supreme Court
Edward Mansfield, Robert Young are up for consideration.
Lawrence S. Bacow
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A community letter as the new administration begins
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Illustration by James Yamasaki
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
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.
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FYRE’s student steering committee
Photograph courtesy of FYRE
Harvard begins a program to acclimate freshmen from “historically marginalized communities.”
A FOP group looks out over a lake in New Hampshire, August 2015.
Photograph courtesy of FOP
Kenton Shimozaki ’19 reflects on lessons learned at Harvard’s First-Year Outdoor Program.
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
Photograph courtesy of SPiNE
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Amory, Francis, Sandi, and Alex Blake pause briefly for a family portrait…
Photograph by Lynn Donaldson
Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
Portrait of Moorfield Storey by John Singer Sargent, 1917. Charcoal on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of James Moorfield Storey
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
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The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
Photograph by Len Levasseur
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
If I was standing alone I wouldn’t stand it at all (2017)
Photograph by Jason Wyche; © Kevin Beasley
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
MAA MoCA is housed in a repurposed industrial mill conplex in North Adams, Masachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
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Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
Photograph courtesy of SPiNE
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Soyoung Lee
Photograph by Audrey Kotkin
Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
Robert Humphreville, a frequent Harvard Film Archive accompanist, says he’s mostly asked to play comedies, especially from “the big three”: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. (A scene from Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. appears over his shoulder.)
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Three pianists making silent film sing
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Harvard Athletics overhauls coaches’ compensation.
Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Late winter and early spring highlights
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Courtesy of Penelope Laurans
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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July-August 2018
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Photograph by Stu Rosner
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.
James M. Thresher/Washington Post/Getty ImagesCapital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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Harvard2
A guide to the arts and culture, history, cuisine, and natural beauty of Cambridge, Boston, and beyond.
The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
Photograph by Len Levasseur
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
MAA MoCA is housed in a repurposed industrial mill conplex in North Adams, Masachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
If I was standing alone I wouldn’t stand it at all (2017)
Photograph by Jason Wyche; © Kevin Beasley
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
The daylily garden
Photograph courtesy of the Heritage Museums and Gardens
Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
Pammy’s jewel-box interior
Photograph courtesy of Pammy’s
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