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A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Curtis McMullen's prints hang in the Science Center lobby.
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A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize. The image may be the only contemporaneous visual depiction by Europeans showing the importance of agriculture to Native Americans in the New World.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
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A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize. The image may be the only contemporaneous visual depiction by Europeans showing the importance of agriculture to Native Americans in the New World.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
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“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
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The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Annette Samuels, caught between classes
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Annette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
Photograph by David Leonard
The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
Photograph by David Leonard
The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
Provincetown’s winter harbor
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Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....
Opportunities for self-improvement, and fun, at and around Harvard
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
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The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
Illustration by Gary Neill
David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.
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Curtis McMullen's prints hang in the Science Center lobby.
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A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
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Memorial Church
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What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
From the New York City production
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“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
Robert L. Scalise
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Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
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This year's Campus Services holiday breakfast featured a "plant-forward" station.
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End-of-semester news and fun from around campus
At left: The field team included (from left) Asah, Naban, Ashton (note his indispensable leech socks), and Ladi.
Photograph by Timothy Whitmore/Courtesy of Peter Ashton and Arnoldia.
Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending
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A network of curli fibers (produced by genetically altered E. coli bacteria) can bind to intestinal surfaces, where it acts like a Band-Aid, and can even deliver probiotic therapies.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
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Neel Joshi harnesses bacteria to build products sustainably.
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A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz
David Deming says existing federal higher-education subsidies, if redeployed, could make public colleges free.
Illustration by Jungyeon Roh
Can technology coupled with cultural understanding improve the health and wellness of the elderly?
Illustration by Gary Neill
David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.
The exhibit's centerpiece re-creates the table setting of a formal dinner held for freshmen of the Harvard Class of 1913.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.© President and Fellows of Harvard College.
“Resetting the Table,” a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum, examines American food traditions.
A social-science analysis of how Catholicism transformed Western culture
How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy
Legal scholars convened at Harvard Law School on Saturday, October 19 to discuss reform of the Electoral College.
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A conference at Harvard Law School focused on reform of the Electoral College
