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A panoramic shot of the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron EDM, a device in the laboratory of Silsbee professor of physics John Doyle that is designed to make measurements of the quantum physical behavior of electrons so precise that the results could change understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Photograph courtesy of John Doyle/Harvard Research Center for Quantum OpticsHarvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
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A panoramic shot of the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron EDM, a device in the laboratory of Silsbee professor of physics John Doyle that is designed to make measurements of the quantum physical behavior of electrons so precise that the results could change understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Photograph courtesy of John Doyle/Harvard Research Center for Quantum OpticsHarvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
David Reich
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?
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Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Richard Montañez
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University’s Office of Career Services
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
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Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
For Jill Vialet, photographed at Oakland’s Laurel Elementary School, play and work are nearly synonymous.
Photograph by Eric Kayne
Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess
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The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
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Snowy grounds at sunset
Photograph courtesy of the Trustees
Winterlights and scavenger hunts at the historic Stevens-Coolidge Place
B & G Oysters
Courtesy of www.bandgoysters.com
A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
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A quilt from the Shape/View series: 2015–2017, all works hand-stitched cotton View III 43×57 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
Shaina Taub sings as militant suffragist Alice Paul.
Photograph by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) Maurice Lalau image for “The Juggler of Notre Dame,” by Anatole France (1924)
Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
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Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
Photograph by Gary Mottola
The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline
Last lunge: With senior right guard Larry Allen Jr. (73) keeping Penn defenders at bay, Harvard senior back Charlie Booker nudges the ball over the goal line for the Crimson's first score.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A bludgeoning victory in the season’s final road game
Happy hookup: Having beaten Columbia’s Will Allen, Harvard junior wide receiver Jack Cook waits for the pass from senior quarterback Tom Stewart. Cook made the grab and then dashed to the end zone for the longest touchdown pass in Crimson history—92 yards.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA Senior Day, and game, to celebrate
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Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
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Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
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March-April 2002
Letters
TERRORISM An acquaintance's discovery of a child's crisply done arm on his roof near Ground Zero just after September 11, and your fanciful...
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
When alumni, after a long absence, stroll through Harvard Yard or return to any other university campus, two questions usually come to mind:...
Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...
Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...
In the 1950s the American Cancer Society had a Committee on Quackery. Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer...
Displayed in the "Hall of the North American Indian" at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the basket looks like many others made in...
Letters
TERRORISM An acquaintance's discovery of a child's crisply done arm on his roof near Ground Zero just after September 11, and your fanciful...
Right Now
Lest you take these English words for granted, consider this: when the United States was founded, only 40 percent of the people living within...
Most people think of the human heart as a fist-sized, valve-studded chunk of muscle, a pump bright red as Superman's cape and nearly as strong...
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, a woman buys a funky '50s-era dress. A recent immigrant from El Salvador sells a dozen blue-corn...
This is your brain on music: lighting up all over the place. Mark Jude Tramo, M.D., Ph.D. '98, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard...
John Harvard's Journal
In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a...
Seniors Suzanne M. Pomey '02 and Randy J. Gomes '02 allegedly stole about $90,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. They were due to be...
On the last day of January, President Lawrence H. Summers announced that the University would adopt the "living wage" recommendations...
For a University committee, HCECP--which included faculty members, administrators, unionized workers, and both undergraduates and graduate...
Any new Harvard president was bound to establish new priorities, altering the expectations built up during the prior decade and forging new...
The new annual letter of Dean Jeremy R. Knowles to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), disseminated in February...
Scholarly journals today are born digital, and in increasing numbers of cases, no paper edition is ever published. Typically, only one...
TO: President Lawrence H. Summers FROM: Task Force on Grade Inflation SUBJECT: Findings and Recommendations Illustration by Lynne Foy...
Harvard Law School (HLS) is carefully weighing the pros and cons of building a new campus for itself in Allston. A "locational...
Heather Gerken Photograph by Stu Rosner When the election of a president appeared to hang in the balance, the media came knocking at...
Concluding 27 years of service as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 will step down as a Fellow of Harvard College at...
On February 11, a portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was scheduled to be unveiled on the wall of the Faculty Room in University...
Harvard undergraduates remain dissatisfied with the quality of academic advising they receive in their concentrations. Harry R. Lewis, dean of...
Having brought his office in Massachusetts Hall into the personal-computer age (see "July 2, Day 1," September-October 2001, page 57)...
After a decade of explosive expansion for Harvard's two fastest-growing schools, one faces a deficit and is cutting costs, while the other has...
Landscaping Transplanted The Radcliffe Institute's seminar program in landscape design and landscape design history...
State-of-the-art one-bedroom condominiums within walking distance of Harvard Square can go for more than $400,000 these days. Even faculty...
If you arrived early Saturday morning at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) on Presidents' Day weekend, you might have been surprised...
I can't explain what I study at Harvard. I am a women's-studies concentrator. After a two-year stint of floating through five large academic...
Eight Harvard seniors will cross the Atlantic to study at Oxford next year as Marshall and Rhodes Scholars. Sarah Moss has been an avid...