Green buildings improve workplace performance

National study shows that certified buildings improve decision-making

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Not your average paper airplane

Designer outlines for students his principles of world-record flight

All hail partisan politics

Harvard historian looks to the past, using case study method to suggest that dogged disputes can strengthen democracy

Drawing wisdom from drawings

Harvard seminars lead to evocative gallery show at the Harvard Art Museums

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On Not Being at Home, Part 2: The Echo of Songs

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Polynesian Voyaging Society

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Potters give anthropology students hands-on lessons

Native American potters Wilma and Aaron Tosa bring their hand-coiled pottery to anthropology students at the Ceramics Studio.

Harvard Art Museums’ blackest pigment

British biotech company Surrey NanoSystems has developed a material known as Vantablack, a sample of which is now part of the collections at the Harvard Art Museums. The color is located in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies’ Forbes Pigments Collection, an assortment of about 2,500 synthetic and organic pigments that helps conservators, curators, and students study and safeguard artworks.

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Student from Aleppo fears shift of fate

Karen Mardini ’18, who grew up in Aleppo, Syria, says that the Trump immigration order has made her feel uncertain about her future in the U.S.

Jeff Koons: High king of middlebrow

Though he may be the favorite artist of oligarchs, Jeff Koons sees his art as democratic experience for viewers and a vehicle for his own transcendence and self-actualization.

All hail partisan politics

Using the case-study method, Harvard Business School historian David Moss examines pivotal moments in American history where disagreement and conflict reshaped our democracy for the better.

No cookie-cutter fixes on air pollution

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not …

News from Around Harvard

No. 1 Women’s Squash Earns Share of Ivy Championship with Victory at No. 9 Brown, 9-0

The No. 1 Harvard women’s squash team earned its 10th-straight win of the season with a 9-0 thrashing of No. 9 Brown on Friday. …

No. 1 Men’s Squash Clinches Share of Ivy Title with Defeat of No. 20 Brown, 8-1

The No. 1 Harvard men’s squash team took down No. 20 Brown, 8-1, to clinch at least a share of the Ivy League title Friday evening. …

Wheeler-Omiunu Signs with Atlanta United FC

A third round Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft selection in January, Harvard men’s soccer’s Andrew Wheeler-Omiunu has earned a contract with Atlanta United FC, as announced by the …

No. 1 Women’s Squash Remains Perfect with Win Over No. 6 Stanford, 9-0

The No. 1 Harvard women’s squash team collected its 11th-straight win, defeating No. 6 Stanford, 9-0, at the Murr Center Squash Courts on Saturday afternoon. …

Women’s Hockey Tripped Up By Rensselaer, 4-1

In its final regular season contest on the road, Harvard women’s hockey was tripped up by Rensselaer, 4-1, on Saturday afternoon at Houston Field House.

Nunley's Double-Double Pushes Women's Basketball Past Brown, 69-59

Senior forward Destiny Nunley notched 17 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks to lead four players in double-figures, as the Harvard women’s basketball team (17-3, 5-2 Ivy League) earned a 69-59 win …

Harvard Law School hosts regional mock trial competition

In early February, Harvard Law School hosted the New England Regional of the National Trial Competition, the largest law school trial advocacy competition in the country.

Radcliffe Magazine Winter 2017

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