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University News |

The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy

Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

by Jonathan Shaw

Exterior of the Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Montage | May-June 2012

Spaces for Art, People, and Light

GSD's Preston Scott Cohen designed a new wing on the Tel Aviv art museum.

by Craig Lambert

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2011

Commemorating 9/11

The Mahindra Humanities Center erects eight “poetry posts” to prompt reflection about loss and recovery.

The <i>Invention of Book Printing</i> comes from <i>Nova Reperta</i> (New inventions and discoveries of modern times), by Stradanus (Jan van der Straet), the first such illustrated compendium of postclassical innovations (ca. 1599- 1603). The ability to print many copies of such works revolutionized communication of ideas in the sixteenth century.

Features | November-December 2011

Spheres of Knowledge

An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.

by Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw

An a cappella group performs in the rain. Despite monsoon-like weather, dozens of student music and dance groups performed in Harvard Yard as part of the evening's program.

Students |

Singin’ in the Rain

After much waiting and wondering, student music and dance groups perform around the Yard for a wet but appreciative crowd.

To get the evening's dancing started, a "flash mob" of dancers performed a choreographed routine they'd rehearsed throughout the previous week. The dancers were on the steps of Widener Library and at other Yard locations. Colorful LED lighting decorated buildings around the Yard.

University News |

Wet and Wonderful

Harvard's 375th anniversary celebration, in words and photographs

Workers assembled the cake under a tent to protect it from the rainy weather. A Harvard Dining Services truck brought over the individual sheet cakes, which form the 15-by-18-foot H-shaped cake. Sixty individual sheet cakes were baked, two per day, by Flour bakery and deep frozen at Harvard awaiting the day of the celebration.

Multimedia |

The Making of the Cake

A step by step gallery of Joanne Chang ’91 assembling the 15-by-18-foot H-shaped red velvet cake for Harvard's 375th birthday.

Dancers rehearse for performance as part of a "flash mob" in the University's 375th anniversary celebration on October 14.

University News |

Commemorating 375 Years, in a Flash

The Harvard 375th “flash mob” danced to James Brown as they rehearsed for the Friday night gala.

Georg Brentel the Younger, from <i>Pamphlet describing the construction and function of a conical sundial,</i> Lauingen: Jacob Winter, 1615. Pamphlet with engravings and woodcuts.

Faculty & Research |

Sundials in Early Modern Europe

Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials

Jan Sadeler I, after Maarten de Vos,<i> Rhetoric,</i> from the series <i>The Seven Liberal Arts,</i> after 1575. Engraving

Faculty & Research |

The Seven Liberal Arts

Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts

Theodore Galle, after Stradanus (Jan van der Straet), <i>Discovery of America,</i> from <i>Nova reperta</i> (New inventions and discoveries of modern times), c. 1599–1603. Engraving

Faculty & Research |

Inventions in Early Modern Europe

Images from Stradanus’s "Nova reperta," a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist