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Smith Campus Center, one of the tangible results of The Harvard Campaign
Photograph by Jim HarrisonThe University reveals the results for its record-setting fund drive.
H. Luke Shaefer directs the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions—now partnering with Harvard to address economic mobility in Detroit.
Photograph courtesy of Poverty Solutions/University of MichiganJoint efforts aim at alleviating poverty and fighting the opioid epidemic.
From left, Presidents M. Roy Wilson, M.D. ’80, of Wayne State University and Lawrence S. Bacow of Harvard and Mary Kramer, director of the economic-development forum, speaking on higher education in Detroit on September 14.
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsPresident Bacow listens (and builds partnerships) in Michigan.
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Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
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In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
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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
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
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Photograph courtesy of Oldways, www.oldwayspt.org
Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston
Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
Photograph by Dennis Tangney Jr./Getty Images
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
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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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(Click to see full image) “Stop Police Killings, Selma, 1965,” by Steve Schapiro
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Aquisition of Photographs. 2018.115A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences
Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Image gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall ©President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. PM# 2001.29.641
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
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We have handoff: After receiving the ball from quarterback and classmate Jake Smith, Harvard sophomore running back Aaron Shampklin scanned the line for an opening—the kind that he ran through all afternoon.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic CommunicationsA strong start, and for Crimson running back Aaron Shampklin, a breakout day
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
(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
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Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
(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
Joshuah Brian Campbell ’16 serenades a boogieing President Drew Faust at her pre-retirement party in Sanders Theatre.
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Spiders and ties, “Fair Harvard” encore, and Faust’s farewell
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March-April 2003
Letters
ONLY IN AMERICA "Simple Hosts" (January-February, page 48) was most enlightening.Author Patricia Thomas achieved a journalistic tour...
The College Pump
According to the Moscow Times, the monks of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow are preparing a formal petition to Harvard for the return of the...
Treasure
These figures of women, each about 18 inches tall, hail from Ladakh, a region of Kashmir and one of earth's highest places. Wearing traditional...
In this Issue
Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997...
In June 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act into law, initiating a 10-year program...
Seventy years ago, on April 13, 1933, a debate took place in the House of Commons over how the British government should respond to the new Nazi...
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and...
J. Michael Bishop, M.D. '62, is a self-described inveterate baseball fan and inadvertent microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been...
Letters
ONLY IN AMERICA "Simple Hosts" (January-February, page 48) was most enlightening.Author Patricia Thomas achieved a journalistic tour...
Right Now
Tiger Woods, possibly the world's best-known athlete, resists being called a "black" golfer. He coined the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian...
The 1890 U.S. census asked blacks to identify their status as "mulattoes," "quadroons," or "octoroons." Such...
A chimpanzee enters a room where food is hidden in one of two opaque containers. A human gazes at the container that hides the food. Reaches...
Beer-guzzling frat boys, catcalling construction workers, and muscle-bound professional wrestlers who prance like peacocks in the ring are...
An artist's rendering of OGLE-TR-56b and its star Illustration courtesy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Five thousand light...
In simpler times, Southerners ate Krispy Kremes and New Englanders ate Dunkin' Donuts. Texans wore cowboy hats and New Yorkers wore black...
John Harvard's Journal
The university has created new scholarships, launched a dedicated fundraising drive, and unveiled a low-cost loan program to assist graduate-...
Noel Michele Holbrook Photograph by Stu Rosner Missy Holbrook '83 grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., where she somehow...
Superior performance in money management need not be absolutely positive. Modestly negative net returns on investments, like Harvard Management...
Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby uses his first annual letter to set...
Harvard University Press's backlist is both one of its greatest blessings on the world of scholars and a strong source of income—but only...
The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 million annually plus 3 percent compounded over 52 years (see "Watertown-Gown...
Reflecting on his 14-year tenure, ending June 30, as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS), Robert C. Clark discerns three distinct periods. In the...
Harvard has chosen architect Craig Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) to design two new science buildings at the northern end...
Mason Hammond '25, G '32, LL.D. '94, Pope professor of the Latin language and literature emeritus, died on October 13, 2002, four months short...
Emilie Norris and Nina Cohen are the prowlers, officially sanctioned and strictly aboveboard. They range widely throughout Harvard to conduct...
Four years ago, when my first child was two years old and I was six months pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother...
On Diversity As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this spring on the University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policies...
(Please note that I should not be writing this column: I have a thesis chapter due on Thursday and pages to go before I sleep...) Harvard...
To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one body: something's got to give...
Marshall and Rhodes Scholars, that is. Harvard boasted seven winners, one a double. The Marshall Scholars are seniors Christopher Laumann, a...
This isn't their first team effort, not by a long shot. "For so many years, they have spent so much time on the same sheet of ice together that...
Men's Basketball The hoopsters (10-7, 2-2 Ivy) started well and twice dominated Dartmouth, but lost games to Ivy powers Princeton (67-61) and...
Alumni
Can doctors teach the rest of us to follow a piece of advice from Hippocrates—"Help, or at least, do no harm" —when dealing...
Your Vote Counts Ballots for Overseer and for elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association will arrive in mid April and must be returned...
1928 The first reading period at Harvard College has proven successful in bolstering student achievement. The Bulletin cites an increase in...
The College Pump
According to the Moscow Times, the monks of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow are preparing a formal petition to Harvard for the return of the...
Treasure
These figures of women, each about 18 inches tall, hail from Ladakh, a region of Kashmir and one of earth's highest places. Wearing traditional...