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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Ladder faculty counts in the the faculty of arts and sciences, 1998 to 2017
Courtesy of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity
Progress and barriers to diversifying Harvard’s faculty
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
From left: Courtesy of Stanley Shaw and Deborah Schrag
Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
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Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
From left: Courtesy of Stanley Shaw and Deborah Schrag
Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, Kumo, has survived 13 years with lung cancer.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
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Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
The son and nephew of MLB players, Quinn Hoffman ’20 has played the game for as long as he can remember.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
For Quinn Hoffman, baseball is the family business.
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Hanna Holborn Gray
Photograph courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
Sellers at the John Brown Fort, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatric
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
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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
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
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The National Black Doll Museum
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Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Sunset in Sampela, a village standing a few hundred yards from land in southwestern Indonesia. The nearest sizable island with an airstrip is a two-hour boat ride away.
Photograph by David HuIn Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
Photograph courtesy of Jack Lueders-Booth/Gallery Kayafas
For seven years, Jack Lueders-Booth (above, left) visited the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham to teach a photography workshop several days each month. Roaming the grounds, he took women prisoners’ portraits with Polaroid, Leica, and medium-format film cameras, documenting scenes from daily life.
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
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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
Seth Towns ’20, the Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a game-high 24 points in the Crimson’s 74-55 victory over Cornell in the Ivy tournament semifinals.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
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David Davidson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
Illustration by Michael Witte
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
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Jim and Deb Fallows in his hometown, Redlands, California
Photograph by Coco McKown
James and Deborah Fallows explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
The Watchers
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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Illustration by Michael Witte
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
David Davidson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
The nine-foot-high depiction of Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870, by sculptor Jon Hair, is the first statue of an individual on the University of South Carolina’s central campus. Its unveiling on February 21 coincided with the inauguration of a symposium in Greener’s honor.
Photograph courtesy of the Office of Communications & Public Affairs, University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.
At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.
Photographs by Lydia Carmichael
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
Alain Locke in an undated photograph
Photograph courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
