Live, from Harvard Square, it’s spring semester

Students return for second in-person term in two years

Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite

Harvard Staff Writer

February 2, 2022 3 min read

A window display in Canaday Hall celebrates the return of Harvard students on campus.

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Toting laptops, notebooks, and masks, students returned to classrooms and labs for spring semester last week — only their second fully in-person semester in almost two years. From Northwest Labs to the Carpenter Center for the Arts, campus again felt the energy and excitement of students and faculty exploring their interests and connecting with classmates and peers — just ahead of a bomb blizzard, because Harvard likes diversity even in its weather.

Beneath the Science Center gate, first-years Cara Salsberry (from left), Christian Um, and Ejike Ike chat.

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Ignacio Azcueta (from left) is the teaching fellow for “Remapping Latin American Cinema: Chilean Film/Video 1968-2022,” a class co-taught by film scholar Haden Guest and Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor.

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Camila Sanmiguel ’23 (center) joins the discussion at the seminar, which examines the political engagement of documentary and narrative filmmakers while exploring the rich dialogue between film and the other arts that animates cinema in the Southern Cone nation.

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The class, including Alejandro Eduarte ’23 (left), Kathryn Gagnon ’25, and Alex Ankai ’23, meets in the Carpenter Center.

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Kathryn Gagnon (from left), Ollie Marinaccio ’25, and Proof Schubert Reed ’25, participate in the conversation.

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Christie Hung ’23 and GSAS student Brandon Campbell practice distilling in the Northwest Building. Dilek Dogutan-Kiper, principal research scientist, and Stephon Fagan-Avery ’23 do the same during a lab course called “Experimental Inorganic Chemistry,” CHEM 145.

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Students walk into Wasserstein Hall. “Keep Harvard Healthy” banners greet students inside Sanders Theatre as light shines through a stained-glass window inside Memorial Hall.

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Inside Holden Chapel, Emmett Price teaches “The Sacred Sounds of Black Folk: The Black Choral Tradition,” MUSIC190R, which explores resilience and demonstrative hope.

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Chiaki Yoshida (left), who is auditing the course, and Stephanie Hollenberg and Chantal Sanchez of Harvard Divinity School listen to Emmett Price teach.

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Students file into Sanders Theatre.

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Dicle Ezgi Ekinci ’25 (right) and Dorcas Gadri ’25 (left) listen to Andrew Berry teach “Life Sciences 1a,” which integrates chemical and biological concepts and applies them to issues of broad interest such as HIV and cancer.

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Inside Sanders Theatre, Andrew Berry teaches “Life Sciences.” Students in the class propose novel experimental directions for a scientific question of their choice, and spend the semester answer them. Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Pardis Sabeti and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology Hopi Hoekstra (not pictured) co-teach the class.

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