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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
Millicent Todd Bingham looks over her mother’s shoulder in this double portrait from 1931.
Photograph courtesy of the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection (MS 496E). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
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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
Unite or Perish, Chicago (1968), by John Simmons
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs.2018.119
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
Dancers Twyla Tharp and Graciela Figueroa in After ‘Suite’ (1969)
Photograph by Jack Mitchell
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
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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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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
Harvard junior defensive lineman Kelvin Apari pressures Dartmouth’s designated passing quarterback, Derek Kyler. The Big Green tried only 11 passes, completing four for 49 yards.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonFor the third time against a tough foe, too little, too late.
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(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) President Bacow delivers his inaugural address.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The University’s new leader focuses on challenges to higher education in America.
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James M. Thresher/Washington Post/Getty ImagesCapital Punishment’s Persistence
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September-October 2003
Letters
PYRAMID BUILDERSI read withgreat interest "Who Built thePyramids?" by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Philip M. Williams '57 dropped by Primus's third-floor office...
Treasure
The curator of the Lee Family Hall of Athletic History, at the Murr Center, is Warren M. "Renny" Little ’55, a track man in his youth...
In this Issue
Football, a century ago, was an unruly, dangerous, and wildly exciting spectacle. It resembled rugby: minimal protective gear, no forward...
As the United States was preparing to launch a war to counter Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons ambitions, a far greater disaster...
One of the most distinguished and prolific mathematicians in the medieval tradition of Arabic Islamic science, al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham...
All professional schools face the same difficult challenge: how to prepare students for the world of practice. Time in the classroom must...
At a research station in the Dominican cloud forest, Brian Farrell has just seen, out of the corner of his eye, a prize buzzing by. Ditching his...
Letters
PYRAMID BUILDERSI read withgreat interest "Who Built thePyramids?" by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's...
Right Now
Several years ago, an international wire service carried a story about a blind man in Saudi Arabia who visited his doctor for an annual...
On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar walked unguarded to the Roman Senate despite his soothsayer's oracular "Beware the ides of March,"...
In shopping malls around the country, medical businesses sell ultrasound and CT (computed tomography) scans to healthy but vigilant customers...
Filmmakers have so delighted in debunking the idyllic myth of 1950s America that exposing the era's seamier side has almost developed into its...
John Harvard's Journal
The strong geometry of Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard housing...
It rained on the Harvard Law School (HLS) rainmakers gathered in Langdell Hall for dinner on Friday, June 13, and in a heated tent on Holmes...
To buttress its $500-million capital campaign—and to foster the ethos of more complete disclosure by corporations and other...
Carmen Arnold-BiucchiPhotograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard's first curator of numismatic collections, overseeing a trove of 22,000 coins in the...
Harvard, its hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research announced on June 19 that they will together create a...
Although it was not the educational institution directly involved in the affirmative-action cases decided by the Supreme Court on June 23...
Having hired a team of consultants and engineers one year ago to assess the University's existing real estate assets in Allston, as well as the...
Expansion of Harvard's Cambridge campus continued this summer as the University built what will be its largest underground space: a subterranean...
The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth birthday by mounting an exhibition, from October 24 through February 15, 2004, devoted...
When Harvard denied tenure to political theorist Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor of government, in 1998, he filed an internal grievance...
In the spring of 1996, the appellate court decision in Hopwood v. Texas landed like a thunderclap in higher education. The Fifth Circuit, which...
Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth keeping safe, such as photographs of one's wedding; or those fading...
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, LL.D. '03, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of Yale's Center for the Study of...
Robert W. IulianoJon Chase / Harvard News OfficeHarvard's AttorneyAfter serving as acting vice president and general counsel during the...
On the third day of my eight-week stint as a summer-school proctor, the mother of one of my charges reminded me of the difficulties that can...
Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows—and "Undergraduate" columnists—for this academic year are...
Defenders have attitude, and their mind-set differs sharply from that of players who line up on the other side of the ball. Call it the outlook...
In June, Harvard's sailing team captured the National Co-ed Championship in Grosse Point, Michigan. It was the first such title since 1974 and...
At Harvard sporting events, Bill Markus '60 is nearly as ubiquitous as crimson jerseys. For the past two seasons, he's been in the stands for...
Alumni
Her noble passion may have sprung from a frustrated appetite: even by Harvard standards, Nadine Strossen '72, J.D. '75, is a voracious reader...
The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association, James V. Baker '68, M.B.A. '71, had never been to America before he boarded the SS United...
• Alumni Abroad • Well Done • [email protected] • Hiram Hunn Awards • Call for Nominations Alumni Abroad The Harvard...
He has run for political office, been a professor, published seven books, modeled, and acted in dozens of commercials, but Alexander Karanikas...
Anna Collins '86, M.B.A. '95, got her start in community service early, volunteering with her parents in Michigan for activities such as state...
1923 The College admits 940 applicants, its largest class ever. For the first time, those in the top seventh of their preparatory schools have...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Philip M. Williams '57 dropped by Primus's third-floor office...
Treasure
The curator of the Lee Family Hall of Athletic History, at the Murr Center, is Warren M. "Renny" Little ’55, a track man in his youth...