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With greetings to the community, and a major faculty appointment, new Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow sets to work.
New filings in a lawsuit against Harvard over admissions allege discrimination against Asian-Americans.
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Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
Davis relaxing in 1910 at Devil’s Thumb, on the Continental Divide near Corona, Colorado
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Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
Gerald López on a pedestrian bridge two blocks from his childhood home in East Los Angeles. For him, rebellious lawyering is not just a legal theory, but a way of being.
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Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
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“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
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Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine Zhang
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The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
Davis relaxing in 1910 at Devil’s Thumb, on the Continental Divide near Corona, Colorado
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
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Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
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Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
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“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
Every human-powered vehicle must stand the test of traveling on asphalt, through mud, and into the Merrimack River.
Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
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At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Nell Painter, a professor emerita of American history at Princeton, now works as an artist in Newark, New Jersey.
Photograph by John Emerson
Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
Sharmila Sen
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A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
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(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
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Boosting the game, and The Game
Arguably the Ivy League’s most dangerous offensive weapon, the Crimson’s return man and wideout Justice Shelton-Mosley ‘19 is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.
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Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Harvard Athletics overhauls coaches’ compensation.
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Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
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An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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September-October 2018
(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Boosting the game, and The Game
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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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A 1944 map of the beaches of Iwo Jima, donated by a Harvard staff member who served in the U.S. assault on the island
Courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
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A 1944 map of the beaches of Iwo Jima, donated by a Harvard staff member who served in the U.S. assault on the island
Courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.
The 2018 participants in the Global Health Delivery Intensive summer session
Photograph by Nilagia McCoy
A Harvard summer program provides a “lexicon” for healthcare professionals.
Photograph by SARINYAPINNGAM/iStockPhoto
The “glass ceiling” in the operating room
Laura van den Berg
Photograph by Paul Yoon
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
An art installation designed by local architect Haydee Casellas sits in the center of “Passports: Lives in Transit,” created with glass plates and dozens of passports purchased by the curators on eBay.
Photograph by Brandon J. Dixon/Harvard Magazine
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Harvard recently acquired one of Nam June Paik's most famous works, TV Buddha (Bronze Seated Buddha). “I think he is interested in the confrontation between this ancient figure and modern technology, or religion and the secular," says Marina Isgro, who helped curate the exhibit. "But I think he's also really interested in the idea of time and the infinite, or an eternal loop.”
Courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Hakuta Family
Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.
A 1944 map of the beaches of Iwo Jima, donated by a Harvard staff member who served in the U.S. assault on the island
Courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.
The 2018 participants in the Global Health Delivery Intensive summer session
Photograph by Nilagia McCoy
A Harvard summer program provides a “lexicon” for healthcare professionals.
Photograph by SARINYAPINNGAM/iStockPhoto
The “glass ceiling” in the operating room
Laura van den Berg
Photograph by Paul Yoon
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
An art installation designed by local architect Haydee Casellas sits in the center of “Passports: Lives in Transit,” created with glass plates and dozens of passports purchased by the curators on eBay.
Photograph by Brandon J. Dixon/Harvard Magazine
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Harvard recently acquired one of Nam June Paik's most famous works, TV Buddha (Bronze Seated Buddha). “I think he is interested in the confrontation between this ancient figure and modern technology, or religion and the secular," says Marina Isgro, who helped curate the exhibit. "But I think he's also really interested in the idea of time and the infinite, or an eternal loop.”
Courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Hakuta Family
Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.
Illustration by Jim Frazier
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Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
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Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
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