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Michael Smith, Jane Kim, and David Hempton
Montage and photographs of schools by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; Headshots (from left): Photograph courtesy of Michael Smith; photograph courtesy of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; photograph by Justin Knight
Appointments for engineering and public health schools, extension of divinity school dean’s tenure
Novelist John Green joins Radcliffe medalist Ophelia Dahl on stage to discuss Partners In Health
Photograph by Tony RinaldoOphelia Dahl, awarded the 2023 Radcliffe Medal, discusses Partners In Health.
Moderator Jacqueline Bhabha (left) with panelists Agnes Binagwaho, Abby Maxman, Natalia Kanem, and Reema Nanavaty
Photograph by Tony RinaldoA Radcliffe Day panel discusses women’s leadership in global healthcare.
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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
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Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise
The nine graduate student presenters at the 2023 Harvard Horizons symposium
Photomontage courtesy of the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Emerging doctoral research on COVID-19, military model villages, children at risk, and more
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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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The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
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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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
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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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September-October 2007
Letters
FAITH AND UNBELIEF I am surprised that Katherine Dunn (“Faculty Faith,” July-August, page 15) does not refer to the main...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Betty Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard...
Treasure
The world’s first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories, was born in 1926, a year before Frederick I. Ordway III...
In this Issue
Borneo, early morning. Most of the trees are dipterocarps, but in the foreground is Koompassia excelsa, a favorite nesting spot of the giant honey bee.
Photograph by Louise Murray/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis
Peter Shaw Ashton stepped into his first Asian tropical forest 50 years ago last March. For what he has accomplished in those steamy reaches, he...
Illustration by Joseph Ciadiello
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance—and writing is a performance, like singing an...
Portrait of Gordon McKay in 1895 by Hubert von Herkomer
Courtesy of Imaging Department, Harvard University Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Brief life of an inventor with a lasting Harvard legacy: 1821-1903
This elegant and austere office building for the Harvard University Library rose at 90 Mount Auburn Street after the Cambridge Historical Commission rejected a design by Viennese architect Hans Hollein that would have been a bold, provocative piece of art that might have begun “a new kind of architecture in Harvard Square.”
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Every year, on a hot summer day, 10 Boston-area architects pile into a van together and drive around for hours looking for beauty. Lately, at...
Letters
FAITH AND UNBELIEF I am surprised that Katherine Dunn (“Faculty Faith,” July-August, page 15) does not refer to the main...
Right Now
Illustration by Tom Mosser
Many women fantasize about it: a male birth-control pill. After all, most existing contraceptives place sole responsibility for preventing...
Resources should be targeted to programs that benefit society the most, argues political economist Richard Zeckhauser.
Chart by Stephen Anderson
The idea seems simple enough: Get detailed information about the participants in a given social program—public-housing residents, say, or...
Illustration by Keith A. Negley
Public debates about evolution frequently pit science against religion. But work by professor of mathematics and of biology Martin Nowak adds a...
Dangerous work can lead to new definitions of masculinity.
Photograph by Steve Chenn/Corbis
As a professor at Harvard Business School, Robin J. Ely has had her share of experience with how men (who constitute 80 percent of the...
New England Regional
The celebrated Glass House would startle pious Puritans and Newport nabobs alike.
Photograph by Eirik Johnson /the Glass House
More than 500 people turned out in June for the inaugural gala picnic at Philip Johnson’s Glass House, in New Canaan, Connecticut. The...
Harvard Square offers something for everyone this fall: saunter down to the Charles River and join an ad hoc community choir as they light up...
The following text is a sidebar to "Modern and Historic," September-October 2007. The Gropius House Lincoln, Massachusetts...
The following text is a sidebar to "Modern and Historic," September-October 2007. The Frelinghuysen Morris House Lenox, Massachusetts...
The following text is a sidebar to "Modern and Historic," September-October 2007. The Glass House New Canaan, Connecticut...
The following text is a sidebar to "Modern and Historic," September-October 2007. The Zimmerman House Manchester, New Hampshire www.currier.org ...
The following text is a sidebar to "Modern and Historic," September-October 2007. Field Farm and The Folly Williamstown, Massachusetts...
The kitchen at Ten Tables is like none we’ve ever seen. Red-faced cooks don’t swear, or growl “Plate this!” at scuttling...
John Harvard's Journal
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On Monday morning, July 2, those members of the Harvard community who weren’t taking a pre-holiday vacation were greeted by an e-mailed...
Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., becomes dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) on September 1; President Drew Faust announced his appointment on July 11...
Photograph by Stu Rosner Howard Gardner As a psychologist, Howard Gardner is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, first...
Photograph by Jim Harrison Byerly Hall is known to tens of thousands of would-be Harvard College students as the home of undergraduate...
Harvard’s anomalous academic calendar will more closely resemble those of other institutions—starting just after Labor Day and...
Celebrating its own nifty bit of reengineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), elevated from the status of a division of...
Enduring Deans, Acting Executives Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler Alan A. Altshuler, Harvard Graduate School of Design...
1912 Larz Anderson ’88 proposes to build a new bridge across the Charles River to replace the inadequate wooden structure connecting...
The $50-million challenge fund established by the University Development Office in February 2006 to stimulate the endowment of professorships...
The Arnold Arboretum anticipated closing a deal last December to sell the Case Estates, its 62.5-acre property (complete with barn and two other...
College Chief Concludes Service Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross, Leverett professor of mathematics, left his decanal post on August 31...
Though I have two years left before I bid farewell to Harvard, I stayed through Commencement this past June to write for the Crimson and...
Photograph by Jim Harrison Liz Goodwin and Samuel Bjork Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the...
Deep into the second half of the NCAA soccer playoff game against SUNY Binghamton last fall, with the score tied 1-1, Harvard forward...
I was a hooker at Harvard. It wasn’t what I expected from college, but I fell in with a crowd of foul-mouthed girls who spent Saturdays...
Women’s Soccer New head coach Ray Leone, who came to Harvard from Arizona State, leads the women booters into their fall season; he is the...
Montage
Virginia Heffernan in her home with a few tools of her trade: notebook computer, flat-screen television, DVDs, remote control
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Not long ago, Virginia Heffernan, Ph.D. ’02, who writes about television and on-line media for the New York Times, got an e-mail from her...
In Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, $27.95), Jeremi Suri examines why Henry Kissinger ’50, Ph.D...
Lincoln Kirstein ’30 combined a ferocious intelligence with manic energy, a belief that there was nothing he could not do, and a...
“Playing chamber music for a white, affluent audience that is experienced in this kind of music doesn’t light my fire nearly as much...
At age 36, Kevin Young ’92 ranks among the most accomplished poets of his generation. The recipient of Guggenheim, Stegner, and NEA...
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life, edited by Louise M. Antony, Ph.D. ’82 (Oxford...
Kenneth Kronenberg seeks the definitive source for “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...
Alumni
Kenneth Mehlman
Photograph by Brooks Kraft/Corbis
Editor’s note: More people than ever before seem to be seeking the U.S. presidency. Rather than profile alumni who are running for...
As a new presidential administration moves into Massachusetts Hall, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is also taking on challenges under its...
Matthew Drazba ’08, of Kirkland House, and Ana Vollmar ’08, of Dudley House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars...
Video stills ©President and Fellows Harvard College ”Justice,” from Sanders Theatre to you: Sandel and engaged students...
Six alumni are to receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of...
The Harvard Alumni Association offers numerous opportunities for alumni to stay in touch with their alma mater. Among them are a series of...
The Harvard Club of Serbia celebrated the country’s new government—which includes President Boris Tadic, a participant in a Kennedy...
When asked what inspired her to create The Young Scientists Club series of do-them-at-home science kits, Esther Novis ’87, A.L.M...
“They’re very special birds, but they could go extinct in the flash of an eye,” says Gus Bodner ’89 of the native...
Erin Sprague ’05 has one goal: to run seven marathons, on seven continents, and raise money for seven charities. And in the process, she...
During the class of 1972’s thirty-fifth reunion in June, about 80 people showed up for a talk and animated discussion spurred by this...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Betty Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard...
Treasure
The world’s first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories, was born in 1926, a year before Frederick I. Ordway III...