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K. Michael Hays, Sarah Whiting, and faux fireplace at the GSD fireside chat
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A fireside chat with the architects, landscape architects, and urban planners
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Photograph by Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe physics department confers its Loeb lectureship on an influential non-physicist.
The Lowell House bells, on hiatus during construction, are now open for business.
Photograph by Jim HarrisonHistoric Lowell House’s renovations bring a mixture of old and new, painstakingly refurbished and constructed.
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The question is no longer if, but when and how.
A crow holds a stick tool during its downtime from the experiment.
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Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
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The class of 2023 displays its class year banner for the first time.
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First-year Convocation for the class of 2023
Dwight Miller
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College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
The author and fellow activists at a Divest Harvard rally this past April: (from left) Caleb Schwartz ’20, Flores-Jones, Anand Bradley ’19, Owen Torrey ’21, Eva Rosenfeld ’21, and Sophia Higgins ’21
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An activist on activism, in college and after
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Upsolve co-founder Rohan Pavuluri (right) and summer staffer Nick Brown are Crimson activists helping those in the red.
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Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
Elizabeth Thomas at home with her own small dogs, Chapek and Kafka, and her son’s large dog, Clover, whom she watches when he is away.
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans
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(1 of 8) The “Rocking Horse Graveyard,” in Lincoln, Massachusetts— “It’s a fun, whimsical thing with a flea- market feel,” Ocker says. “But at night it’s one of the creepiest sights on the planet.”
Photograph courtesy of J.W. Ocker/OTISExploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker
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(1 of 6) A child’s horse-drawn carriage dating to1907, from the Wenham Museum’s new exhibit
Photograph courtesy of Peter G. Gwinn/Wenham MuseumEquestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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(1 of 6) The market as a community gathering point
Photograph by Melissa DiPalmaBoston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
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(1 of 4) Mak designed lighting for a 2019 staging of The Bridges of Madison County by the Philadelphia Theater Company.Photograph by Rich Hein
Lighting and set designer Elizabeth Mak communicates stories.
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(1 of 2) In “Reneepoptosis,” by animator Renee Zhan, three versions of the artist go on a quest for God, traversing an unfamiliar terrain that turns out to be her own body.Film still courtesy of Renee Zhan
Animator Renee Zhan finds self-discovery in strange landscapes.
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock PhotoPleasures to explore in and around Worcester
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Just another hurdle: Leaping over guard Eric Wilson (68), Harvard running back Aaron Shampklin sails through a hole last season against Princeton. Shampklin had a breakout season in 2018, leading the Ivy League in rushing with 105.3 yards per game.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic CommunicationsProspects, rules changes, a Rose Bowl centennial, pro players, a return from a shattering injury—and a tragic loss
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(1 of 6) A child’s horse-drawn carriage dating to1907, from the Wenham Museum’s new exhibit
Photograph courtesy of Peter G. Gwinn/Wenham MuseumEquestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock PhotoPleasures to explore in and around Worcester
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Turkeys, tourists, traditions, tranquility
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Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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