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Edward Blum, founder of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), speaks to reporters at a rally in Boston on October 14, one day ahead of the start of the trial.
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First day of trial for the case that could restrict affirmative action in college admissions
Harvard Kennedy School
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Panelists discuss what it looks like, what led us here, and what can be done to fix it.
Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
Photograph by Harvard MagazineEight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
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Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
Photograph by Harvard MagazineEight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
Illustration by Jim Frazier
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
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Richard Montañez
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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
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.
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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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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
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“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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Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
Photograph by Harvard MagazineEight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, stage center at Sanders Theatre, congratulate, thank, and celebrate the performers at the Thursday evening inaugural concert and performances.
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Students, faculty members, and visiting artists perform music, song, drama, and even a work of visual art in real time.
Autumn (…Nothing Personal)’s benches and polycarbonate tubes form three concentric circles.
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An installation in Harvard Yard creates space to reflect on identity, culture, and visibility.
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One hand, two points: Tight end Adam West fended off Holy Cross’s Cullen Honohan with his right hand and caught the ball with his left for a conversion catch that made the list of Top 10 plays on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA loss turns into a win—just in the kick of time.
Crimson streak: Aaron Shampklin sails past Cornell defenders on a 47-yard touchdown jaunt that gave the Crimson a 7-0 lead. The sophomore sensation finished with a career-high 191 yards.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A galling defeat
On tippytoes: Harvard’s Justice Shelton-Mosley performs a sideline balancing act after one of his game-high 10 catches. The senior wideout moved into third place on the career receptions list.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA quick and aggressive opponent makes the Crimson look sluggish.
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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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November-December 2005
Letters
SO YOU WANT TO BE 120 Is aging necessary? (“The Aging Enigma,” by Jonathan Shaw, September-October, page 46). You bet it is...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." “Does Harvard ‘brand’ matter...
Treasure
A bust of Werner Jaeger (1888-1961) presides over the common room of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is...
In this Issue
Rhynchaea capensis
All drawings from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, by Charles Darwin, in two volumes (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871) unless otherwise noted. Scans of drawings courtesy of Kathleen Horton
Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His...
Director Ross McElwee in a new screening room in Sever Hall. The projected image is from his autobiographical film Bright Leaves.
Portrait by Jim Harrison
In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class in “Filming Science” is scattered among the seats, waiting for an...
Illustration by James Steinberg
The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t...
Letters
SO YOU WANT TO BE 120 Is aging necessary? (“The Aging Enigma,” by Jonathan Shaw, September-October, page 46). You bet it is...
Right Now
Retinal cells, even before sending messages to the brain, accent novel features like a running tiger and down-play stabe ones like grasses.
Photograph by Tom Brakefield/Corbis
If you “can’t see the forest for the trees,” you’ve focused too much on the details to take in the larger situation...
Vladimir A. Lukhtanov saw Agrodiaetus butterflies of several species flying together, and even though they all looked much the same in most...
Since the 1950s, the United States has led the world in science and technology, training an unrivaled pool of physicists, engineers, biologists...
New England Regional
Salts. There’s an artist in the kitchen and a crowd at the door.
Photograph courtesy of Salts
Success is making a bit of trouble for Gabriel Bremer and Analia Verolo. Two years ago they bought Salts, a popular bistro near Central Square...
The diverse array of activities offered in and around Harvard Square this winter ranges from Turkish films, holiday concerts, and stargazing to...
Robert Bunshaft ’39, M.B.A. ’41, and his wife, Doris, played tennis almost every day for 50 years. Now in their 80s, they still meet...
John Harvard's Journal
The new main stairwell at the heart of Baker Library separates the repainted but otherwise unchanged original north lobby from The Exchange (below), just inside the new south entrance.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Baker Library at the Business School reopened officially on September 19 after a two-year makeover. The new facility was designed by Robert A.M...
Faster revenue growth, plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal...
Donations to the University totaled $590 million in the fiscal year ended June 30 — the second highest sum in Harvard’s history...
Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, has a new title: Nobel laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of...
Ending his 15-year run as president of Harvard Management Company, Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. ’69, and his investment colleagues turned in a...
Though the two official news releases announced the same agreement, their content diverged sharply regarding the settlement of a long-running...
Ronald Kessler Photograph by Stu Rosner In on-line biomedical databases, Ronald Kessler ranks as the most widely cited author in...
The campus discussion about faculty diversity—particularly the academic development and careers of women—that was launched last spring...
An undertaking greeted by Harvard librarians as potentially “a revolutionary new information-location tool” and “an important...
Data from an annually updated Harvard Business School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business...
In response to Hurricane Katrina, Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Law...
With a fiscal gun at the University’s head, Harvard Law School (HLS) has reversed its position on military recruiting on its campus. The...
Vice President’s Ciao Ann E. Berman Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Vice president for finance Ann E. Berman will...
Savaged by insects, ravaged by disease and old age, the elms of Harvard Yard were much diminished by 1990 (see photographs, below), when Michael...
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having...
Illustration by Mark Steele
1915 Professor Theodore Richards becomes the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Illustration by Mark Steele 1930...
Like many stories, this one began at an improbable distance in space and time from where it ended. The saga of how the Harvard Review (see...
Founded in 1992, the Harvard Review (http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview) is a biannual, 200-page literary journal that includes poetry...
Finding a FellowThe search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation—to fill the vacancy created by Conrad K. Harper’s resignation...
I wore the wrong shoes to my first day of work this summer. I don’t know what inspired me to choose the pointy black pair with elastic...
Alumni
Geoff Emblering stands among altars for burnt offerings in teh Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago.
Photograph by Dan Dry
In a glass case stand a dozen carved statues of gypsum alabaster — male figurines with their hands folded at their chests and their...
She Changes, by artist Janet Echelman ’87, is a giant multilayered mesh net suspended above a traffic circle next to a beachside promenade...
The Harvard Alumni Association awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities...
University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at...
A group of 19 European Harvard club leaders gathered in Istanbul from September 9 to 11, along with HAA executive committee members and leaders...
Several college programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning...
Upcoming Alumni Colleges include “Women in the War Zone” and “Harvard in the Olympics.” The events are organized by the...
A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his...
John A. Graham ’64’s conflict-resolution work has taken him from apartheid-torn South Africa to meetings in Geneva, Switzerland...
Ardent flight instructor, aerobatics competitor, and self-proclaimed space junkie James E. Smolen ’71, Ph.D. ’76, has a distinctive...
Douglas Brockmeyer ’82 comes in exactly where more risk-averse people head for safety. At work, he thrives as a pediatric neurosurgeon...
To assemble a collection of poems that capture the American experience yet are also accessible to children is a daunting task. That’s what...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." “Does Harvard ‘brand’ matter...
Treasure
A bust of Werner Jaeger (1888-1961) presides over the common room of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is...