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The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
2.11.19
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“Trading Floor, 1981.” Ready for the New Era in Financial Markets: Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb.
Courtesy of the Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
A Harvard Business School exhibition traces the rise and Great Recession fall of an iconic investment bank.
President Bacow speaking at Peking University on March 20
Photograph by Yi Wang/Harvard Center ShanghaiThe president addresses fraught issues at a delicate time in China.
Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
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Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeExploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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Tommy Amaker identifies Justin Bassey ’20 (shown here against North Carolina) as the team's most valuable player.
Photograph by Tim Cowie/Harvard Athletics CommunicationsJunior guard Justin Bassey
The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
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(1 of 4) 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 as renewal nears.Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle
A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCJennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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(1 of 5) State police gather in front of Widener Library near sunrise on April 10.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives. HUA 969.71 Image 3
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
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Chef Vinh Le in the kitchen
Photograph courtesy of Nem Kitchen
Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine
Pianist Angela Hewitt
Photograph by Richard Termine
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
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Exterior of the ArtLab
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An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection”
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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This year's Ivy League basketball tournaments will be played this weekend at Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater, which seats 2,800 and was the site of a thrilling playoff game between the Harvard and Princeton men in 2011. Photograph by David Silverman/Yale AthleticsInside the debate over where to play the Ivy League basketball tournament
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
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The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
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(1 of 5) State police gather in front of Widener Library near sunrise on April 10.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives. HUA 969.71 Image 3
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
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Harvard’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg
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March-April 2019
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeExploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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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
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The American Repertory Theater will remain at the Loeb Drama Center, on Brattle Street in Cambridge, for several more years, before moving to a new performing-arts center planned in Allston.
Photograph by John Phelan/Wikimedia
A $100-million gift catalyzes a surprising theater relocation.
Exterior of the ArtLab
Photograph by Clare O’Keefe
An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection”
A serene and snowy moment in historic Portland
Photograph courtesy of Corey Templeton Photography
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
Bess Wohl
Photograph by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.
Shaina Taub sings as militant suffragist Alice Paul.
Photograph by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
In the Metropolitan Opera’s scene shop, Sarah Meyers stands calmly next to a monster’s oversized snout.
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, stage center at Sanders Theatre, congratulate, thank, and celebrate the performers at the Thursday evening inaugural concert and performances.
Photograph by JSR/Harvard Magazine
Students, faculty members, and visiting artists perform music, song, drama, and even a work of visual art in real time.
A rehearsal scene from The Squirrel Plays
Courtesy of Olivia Munk
A graduate’s foray into the “real world” of fringe theater