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Claire Chase (left, on contrabass flute) and students (Jessica Shand, Jennifer Wang, Mai Nguyen, and Taiga Ultan), all on flutes, play a work by Vijay Iyer during the ArtLab's opening celebration.
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The ArtLab debuts.
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A changed playing field as graduate student union, Harvard negotiate
K. Michael Hays, Sarah Whiting, and faux fireplace at the GSD fireside chat
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A fireside chat with the architects, landscape architects, and urban planners
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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.
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Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
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The class of 2023 displays its class year banner for the first time.
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First-year Convocation for the class of 2023
Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass
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The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Liedel (at left), representing Germany in Spain’s 2019 La Manga Tournament, competes for the ball with a Danish rival.
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Linda Liedel ’21 always knew how good she could be.
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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.
Dwight Miller
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College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
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Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
(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”
The seventeenth-century Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts
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Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
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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
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Claire Chase (left, on contrabass flute) and students (Jessica Shand, Jennifer Wang, Mai Nguyen, and Taiga Ultan), all on flutes, play a work by Vijay Iyer during the ArtLab's opening celebration.
Photograph by Karen Philippi/Courtesy of the ArtLab
The ArtLab debuts.
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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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Just another hurdle: Leaping over guard Eric Wilson (68), Harvard running back Aaron Shampklin sails through a hole last season against Princeton. Shampklin had a breakout season in 2018, leading the Ivy League in rushing with 105.3 yards per game.
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Prospects, rules changes, a Rose Bowl centennial, pro players, a return from a shattering injury—and a tragic loss
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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 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock Photo
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
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The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
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David Damrosch’s literary global reach
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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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Claire Chase (left, on contrabass flute) and students (Jessica Shand, Jennifer Wang, Mai Nguyen, and Taiga Ultan), all on flutes, play a work by Vijay Iyer during the ArtLab's opening celebration.
Photograph by Karen Philippi/Courtesy of the ArtLab
The ArtLab debuts.
(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 Instruments
New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
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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
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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
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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
