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Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.
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The 2018 participants in the Global Health Delivery Intensive summer session
Photograph by Nilagia McCoy
A Harvard summer program provides a “lexicon” for healthcare professionals.
An art installation designed by local architect Haydee Casellas sits in the center of “Passports: Lives in Transit,” created with glass plates and dozens of passports purchased by the curators on eBay.
Photograph by Brandon J. Dixon/Harvard Magazine
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Harvard recently acquired one of Nam June Paik's most famous works, TV Buddha (Bronze Seated Buddha). “I think he is interested in the confrontation between this ancient figure and modern technology, or religion and the secular," says Marina Isgro, who helped curate the exhibit. "But I think he's also really interested in the idea of time and the infinite, or an eternal loop.”
Courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Hakuta Family
Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.
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Illustration by James Yamasaki
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Elsie Sunderland
Photograph by Stu RosnerElsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
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FYRE’s student steering committee
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Harvard begins a program to acclimate freshmen from “historically marginalized communities.”
A FOP group looks out over a lake in New Hampshire, August 2015.
Photograph courtesy of FOP
Kenton Shimozaki ’19 reflects on lessons learned at Harvard’s First-Year Outdoor Program.
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A rehearsal scene from The Squirrel Plays
Courtesy of Olivia Munk
A graduate’s foray into the “real world” of fringe theater
Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
Photograph courtesy of SPiNE
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Amory, Francis, Sandi, and Alex Blake pause briefly for a family portrait…
Photograph by Lynn Donaldson
Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
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MAA MoCA is housed in a repurposed industrial mill conplex in North Adams, Masachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
The daylily garden
Photograph courtesy of the Heritage Museums and Gardens
Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
Photograph by Len Levasseur
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
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Laura van den Berg
Photograph by Paul Yoon
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
An art installation designed by local architect Haydee Casellas sits in the center of “Passports: Lives in Transit,” created with glass plates and dozens of passports purchased by the curators on eBay.
Photograph by Brandon J. Dixon/Harvard Magazine
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Harvard recently acquired one of Nam June Paik's most famous works, TV Buddha (Bronze Seated Buddha). “I think he is interested in the confrontation between this ancient figure and modern technology, or religion and the secular," says Marina Isgro, who helped curate the exhibit. "But I think he's also really interested in the idea of time and the infinite, or an eternal loop.”
Courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Hakuta Family
Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.
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Harvard Athletics overhauls coaches’ compensation.
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
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Courtesy of Penelope Laurans
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged
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Elsie Sunderland
Photograph by Stu RosnerHarvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants.
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.
The 2018 participants in the Global Health Delivery Intensive summer session
Photograph by Nilagia McCoy
A Harvard summer program provides a “lexicon” for healthcare professionals.
Photograph by SARINYAPINNGAM/iStockPhoto
The “glass ceiling” in the operating room
An art installation designed by local architect Haydee Casellas sits in the center of “Passports: Lives in Transit,” created with glass plates and dozens of passports purchased by the curators on eBay.
Photograph by Brandon J. Dixon/Harvard Magazine
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Robert Reid-Pharr
Courtesy of Robert Reid-Pharr
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
Raj Chetty
Photograph courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Chetty is a global leader in research on inequality and social mobility.
Illustration by James Yamasaki
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.