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HUCTW members rallied in front of the Smith Center last October, one of several similar demonstrations during the long negotiations process.
Photograph courtesy of Carrie Babash/HUCTWA year-plus of hard-fought negotiations yield pay raises and other benefits for union members.
The launch of the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on Friday, April 7, from Cape Canaveral.
Photograph by Walter Scriptunas/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian
A satellite-mounted instrument developed at the Center for Astrophysics will track air pollution hourly across North America.
Ritu Kalra, Harvard’s newly appointed vice president for finance and CFO
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
University finance executive succeeds Thomas Hollister as vice president.
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The launch of the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on Friday, April 7, from Cape Canaveral.
Photograph by Walter Scriptunas/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian
A satellite-mounted instrument developed at the Center for Astrophysics will track air pollution hourly across North America.
Alia Crum presents about mindfulness in allergy oral immunotherapy. Thich Nhat Hanh, the center's namesake, is featured on the top left of the slide.
Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/Harvard Magazine
Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.
Hvalsey Church
Photograph in the public domain
Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise
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Top left: Bob Burres and Dawn Oates, Ed.M. ’23. Top right: Aileen Louie, Suevon Lee, Jenn Louie, M.Div. ’23, Alex Louie, Lily Louie, and Arthur Louie. Bottom left: speakers at Harvard’s affinity celebration for Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American graduates. Bottom right: David Lewis, M.P.P. ’23, Taylor Jones, M.P.P. ’23, Raie Gessesse, M.P.P. ’23, Selma Ismail, M.P.P. ’23, Lindsey Batteast, M.P.P. ’23.
Photographs by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Harvard affinity celebrations honor graduates’ diverse journeys.
ROTC graduates are sworn in during the commissioning ceremony on May 24th in Tercentenary Theatre.
Photograph by Nell Porter Brown/Harvard Magazine
Sixteen graduates were commissioned into the armed services at the ROTC ceremony.
President Bacow delivering his final Baccalaureate address, to the class of 2023.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
In his valedictory baccalaureate address, President Bacow emphasizes the value of humility.
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Mary Louise Kelly
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The All Things Considered cohost emphasized the importance of reporting to democracy.
Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, the most senior attendee in the weekend's festivities.
Photograph by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44 and Ruth Samuels Villalovos ’49 led the alumni parade.
The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
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Portrait of Petronila Méndez (1763), by Diego Antonio de Landaeta
Image courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation/ photographs by Jamie Stukenberg
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Delivering the gorgeous goods
Photograph courtesy of Fivefork Farms
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Fall River Heritage State Park’s boardwalk
Photograph by Sanghwan Kim/istock
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
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Catherine Yeo performing at the Smith Center last October during the Weatherhead Center's International Comedy Night
Photograph courtesy of Catherine Yeo
For an Asian American woman, performing comedy is about much more than jokes.
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
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Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True and Carl Phillips's Then the War were among this year's Pulitzer winners.
Pulitzer prize medal in public domain; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
Jimmy Tingle
Photograph courtesy of Jimmy Tingle
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
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Point guard Harmoni Turner '25 had 23 points and seven assists in Sunday's game against Columbia.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman; courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Harvard women’s basketball’s deep WNIT run—and what it portends
Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Memorial Church, where the service will be held
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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May-June 2004
Letters
THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw (March-April, page 36), is the first article that I have seen to discuss...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." April 22 was the centenary of the birth of J. Robert...
Treasure
On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, shown here...
In this Issue
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Last year, the publication of his Collected Poems returned Robert Lowell '39 to the center stage of American poetry. From 1946, when he won the...
(Excerpted from Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this May by Harvard University Press...
Thinking himself near death in 1905, Evelyn Baring, the first Lord Cromer, began a series of "Biographical Notes," written partly that...
Last year, Morgan Spurlock decided to eat all his meals at McDonald's for a month. For 30 straight days, everything he took in—breakfast...
Letters
THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw (March-April, page 36), is the first article that I have seen to discuss...
Right Now
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In 1675 Isaac Newton suffered a mental breakdown—some modern psychiatrists diagnose him as a manic-depressive—and he was still...
"Blackness has been shrugged off by the force of events," says Debra Dickerson, J.D. '95. "Things are not perfect racially, but...
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John Harvard's Journal
With an ambitious mandate to cure cellular diseases, Harvard has launched an important new scientific enterprise, the Harvard Stem Cell...
Louis MenandPhotograph by Stu RosnerThough readers of the New Yorker might identify him as a gifted book critic and stylish essayist—his...
Harvard has enhanced its undergraduate financial-aid program in an effort to make the College more attractive to lower-income students...
The practice of the arts is in the ascendant at Harvard. And even though there is not now enough space to contain this explosion of student...
The process has been served. It took a 40-page report, delivered on March 22, but the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, by an...
On a dumping ground along a dirt road in Santiago's Renca municipality, Harvard-affiliated planners work to create decent housing for 160...
The University’s extraordinary library system, among the world’s largest, grows apace. In fiscal year 2002, the collections grew by...
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Dorothea ("Thea") Burns is hunched over a table holding a scalpel. Ever so gently she teases off fragments of a thick, rigid...
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The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...
The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester...
The newest Rhodes: Shazrene Mohamed '04, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is Harvard's seventh Rhodes Scholarship winner for 2004 (see "The Rhodes...
In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their own sex. Still, the men's and women's teams root for each other...
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Alumni
Ilana DeBare '80 has an odd confession to share. Until a few years ago, she'd never set foot in an all-girls school. In fact, she says, if her...
Castilleja and Julia Morgan are only about 35 miles apart, but in many ways, the distance between the two California girls' schools seems much...
Whether you're a regular at Arts First or you've yet to attend, you can experience the event's highlights on-line thanks to [email protected]. Arts...
Alumni will choose five new Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board in this year's election.To be...
An upcoming Alumni College seminar will explore the financial side of America's favorite sport, followed by a field trip to Fenway Park for an...
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For on-line information about Commencement and reunions, visit: Harvard University Commencement Office (www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu): The...
Can the "food of the gods" help us live longer, healthier lives? Like red wine and green tea, the seeds of Theobroma cacao, which are...
When Carlos Sandoval '74 first presented Farmingville, the 2004 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary he wrote and codirected, to...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." April 22 was the centenary of the birth of J. Robert...
Treasure
On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, shown here...