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The question is no longer if, but when and how.
Stephanie Paulsell, interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church
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Stephanie Paulsell is the successor, for now, to Jonathan Walton.
A crow holds a stick tool during its downtime from the experiment.
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Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
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The question is no longer if, but when and how.
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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Dwight Miller
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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
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An activist on activism, in college and after
Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass
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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.
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Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
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(1 of 3) Hansjörg Wyss
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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering gets another boost.
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(1 of 8) The “Rocking Horse Graveyard,” in Lincoln, Massachusetts— “It’s a fun, whimsical thing with a flea- market feel,” Ocker says. “But at night it’s one of the creepiest sights on the planet.”
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Exploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker
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(1 of 6) A child’s horse-drawn carriage dating to1907, from the Wenham Museum’s new exhibit
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Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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(1 of 6) The market as a community gathering point
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Boston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia
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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
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Pleasures 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 Museum
Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
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Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
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Dwight Miller
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College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
From the archives
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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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.
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A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
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The Institute for World Literature expands global scholarship.
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(1 of 6) The market as a community gathering point
Photograph by Melissa DiPalma
Boston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia
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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 Museum
Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore
The seventeenth-century Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts
Photograph courtesy of the Fairbanks House
Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
(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
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New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
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Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
Hinton arranges materials for the Angela Davis exhibit with (from left) Radcliffe arts program manager Meg Rotzel, gallery coordinator Joe Zane, and Pforzheimer fellow Jackie Wang.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Elizabeth Hinton curates an exhibit and conference at the Radcliffe Institute, exploring the life and legacy of a global icon.
