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Institutions and innovation districts in the Boston area
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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.
Adams House, encompassing buildings ranging from Colonial America to Harvard’s Depression-era creation of the House system (and trisected by city streets), poses design and construction challenges.
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The four-year renewal Adams will run far longer than any of the other House projects.
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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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Evelyn Richmond and Arsen Charles
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Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Arsen Charles ’42 led the 2019 alumni parade.
Bridget Terry Long
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New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
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Pink Cactus
Kay Kenny
Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
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The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
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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.
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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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.
As a performer, Lauderdale is often the center of attention. With Meow Meow, he embraces a supportive role.
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Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale is at his best bringing people together.
The master architects: Hall for Worship of the Ancestors, Beijing, early fifteenth century with many later repairs
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Recent books with Harvard connections
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
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On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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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.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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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.
Arts
A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
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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.
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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 Library
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
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Pink Cactus
Kay Kenny
Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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A jar from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo culture, 1898 or earlierObject courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Pliable arts from across the continent
Accidental comics writer Amy Chu
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Graphic novelist Amy Chu
Will this familiar bust return to its familiar place in a Lowell House courtyard?
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A meaningful change in the images on display in the renewed Lowell House
Exterior of the ArtLab
Photograph by Clare O’Keefe
An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection”
