Photography
Harvard’s campus and community through the lens of our photographers.
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Campus & Community
Updating their 3-word bios
Juniors who talked to us when they first arrived here — and again as sophomores — reflect on how they’ve changed
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Arts & Culture
Art in motion
Stroboscopic technique uses darkness to shine light on the science of movement
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Campus & Community
Diving into the myths and legends behind sea monsters
New exhibit lets visitors discover sea creatures often more astonishing than the fantastical beings we may have imagined
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Campus & Community
Unfolding the academic year
Students sample classes across campus, offering them a taste of what lies ahead
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Campus & Community
Dusting off a microscopic portion of Harvard’s Glass Flowers collection
New release shows minute details of lives of spore-forming plants and fungi
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Arts & Culture
Walking children through a garden of good and evil
Jamaica Kincaid’s new book presents history of colonialism, identity through plants that helped shape it
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A case study in portraiture
For 15 years, painter Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, has been quietly changing the walls of campus by adding dozens of portraits that better reflect Harvard’s diversity.
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In defense of winter
Harvard photographer Rose Lincoln shows winter’s critics why they should embrace the season.
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A guide to Harvard’s toasty fireplaces
As the weather outside gets frightful, the Harvard community might find these fires delightful.
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A collection of knowledge
Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has grown to 20,000 objects, making it one of the three largest university collections of its kind.
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Come to the cabaret
“Truth Hurts: A Transformational Cabaret,” designed and performed by Harvard students in Theater, Dance & Media, embraces the anything-goes form in a dramatic satire of campus life.
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Hip-hop steps up
In Aysha Upchurch’s new course, “Hip Hop Dance: Exploring the Groove and the Movement Beneath and Beyond the Beat,” students learn the histories behind some of their favorite moves.
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The season of the soul
Gone are the warm, carefree days of summer; the cool, crisp air of a new season brings with it winds of change, and fall has arrived.
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The path to sustainable commuting
Photographers capture the Harvard community taking steps toward a more sustainable commute.
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Frames of mind: A window onto Harvard’s campus
A window Into Harvard’s campus through the lens of a camera.
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Blades of glory
Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.
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Gen Ed shopping spree
Students popped in and out of classrooms, labs, and lecture halls in the first days of the semester, hunting for just the right Gen Ed class — the one that…
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‘The first superhero that I ever came to know’
Incoming Harvard medical and dental students talk about the people who helped them most.
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How I wrote my Harvard essay
Late nights. Discarded drafts. That one great idea. Harvard first-years reflect on the agony and the ecstasy of writing their admissions essay.
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Big statue on campus
Whether you’re standing at the Harvard Statue in the morning, noon, or evening, the scene is almost always the same: Crowds of five, 10, or 50 converge to take a photo with the statue. For some, the statue is the embodiment of the University. For others a photo with it is just a box to check.
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At your service
More than 1,500 first-year students rolled up their sleeves and went to work across Greater Boston on Thursday for the Class of 2023 Day of Service.
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Their favorite things
The Gazette asks first-year students to name the most cherished thing in their suitcases.
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Making themselves at home in Harvard Yard
No blood, but some sweat and a few tears were on display as first-years moved into their Harvard Yard dorms Tuesday.
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A summer of helping
Harvard College first-year Ezra Feder spends his summer doing public service through Artists For Humanity, a nonprofit that provides employment in art and design to lower-income teens in the city.
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Summer explorers
For the fourth year, Harvard’s Summer Explorations helped local students stay sharp over the school break while learning in free weeklong workshops at the Ed Portal in Allston.
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Passing the barre
A photo gallery captures the hard work leading up to Harvard Ballet Company’s recent performance.
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The simple joy of pets
Phillips Brooks House program brings dogs to a local rehab center to interact with residents.
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Chicken soup for the soul
Harvard Divinity School graduate Israel Buffardi experienced an unconventional journey to his Unitarian Universalist ministry.
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Shining Commencement moments, captured
Not lost amid Harvard’s definitive ritual of revelry and accomplishment were the 6,665 graduates and their families, whose years of labor and sacrifice led them to the day.
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Crimson EMS in action
A student-run emergency medical services organization at Harvard, Crimson CMS facilitates the training, certification, and volunteer service of EMTs.
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Step, sing, and dance in time
The Harvard community came out to join in the 2019 Arts Festival with live music and dance performances, arts and crafts, theater, and more.
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Rocking the House(s)
Harvard Housing Day, when first-year students learn what House they’ll be living in beginning sophomore year, is a big celebration
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The beauty of the book in all its forms
For last semester’s seminar “Harvard’s Greatest Hits,” David Stern got about a dozen first-year students in a room and had them examine some of the rarest and oldest volumes at Houghton Library, Harvard’s rich and vast repository of art, culture, history and much, much more.
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Science fare
To highlight the range of research being done in Harvard’s science labs, we recently visited students doing hands-on work in fields from quantum science to biology to chemical engineering.
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Embracing motion and stillness
Harvard staff photographer Rose Lincoln finds moments of motion and stillness, giving you a reason to pause.
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Winter warm-up
Harvard Wintersession students picked up new skills during the break with classes that ranged from joke-writing to synthetic biology.