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  Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
  Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
  
  New England’s Forest Primeval
  
  Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
  
  1.20.20
  
  Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
  Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
  
  Election Slates and Divestment Developments
  
  The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
  
  1.9.20
  
  The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
  Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
  
  An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard
  
  The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
  
  1.7.20
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  Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
  Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
  
  New England’s Forest Primeval
  
  Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
  
  1.20.20
  
  The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
  Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
  
  An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard
  
  The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
  
  1.7.20
  
  A network of curli fibers (produced by genetically altered E. coli bacteria) can bind to intestinal surfaces, where it acts like a Band-Aid, and can even deliver probiotic therapies.
  Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
  
  “An Atomically Precise Forest for the Price of the Sunlight”
  
  Neel Joshi harnesses bacteria to build products sustainably.
  
  12.11.19
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  Working at Beauty
  
  The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
  
  January-February 2020
  
  First-Gen Frontlines
  
  Alumni describe their challenges in leaving home and coming to the College.
  
  January-February 2020
  
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  Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
  Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection
  
  Pudding Pots & Parody
  
  “Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
  
  January-February 2020
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  Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
  Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
  
  Election Slates and Divestment Developments
  
  The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
  
  1.9.20
  
  Annette Samuels, caught between classes
  Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard Magazine
  
  A Radcliffe Return
  
  Annette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
  
  January-February 2020
  
  The Kupermans choreographed the 2019 musical Alice By Heart, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland set during the London Blitz
  Photograph by Deen Van Meer
  
  The Language of Movement
  
  The brothers Kuperman—choreographers, directors, and storytellers
  
  January-February 2020
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  Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
  Photograph by David Leonard
  
  Winter Retreat
  
  The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
  
  January-February 2020
  
  The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
  Photograph by Binita Patel
  
  Eat, Drink, Read
  
  The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
  
  January-February 2020
  
  Ways to Support Your Well-Being in the New Year
  
  Opportunities for self-improvement, and fun, at and around Harvard
  
  January-February 2020
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  Lawrence S. Bacow
  
  Curiosity Changes the World
  
  President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
  
  January-February 2020
  
  Cambridge 02138
  
  Gun violence, drug laws, climate change and more
  
  January-February 2020
  
  Surpluses and Scholarship
  
  On the University’s fiscal position and academic aspirations
  
  January-February 2020
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  Memorial Church
  Photograph by William Rittase/Courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
  
  The Rittase Touch
  
  What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
  
  1.15.20
  
  The Kupermans choreographed the 2019 musical Alice By Heart, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland set during the London Blitz
  Photograph by Deen Van Meer
  
  The Language of Movement
  
  The brothers Kuperman—choreographers, directors, and storytellers
  
  January-February 2020
  
  At the 2019 Artlake Festival in Germany, Chen (in red skirt) and artist Annique Delphine (pink skirt) lead Heal Her, a traveling workshop of collective storytelling and art for sexual-violence survivors.
  Photograph by Molly Baber
  
  Creative Exposure
  
  Lena Chen transforms trauma into art and performance.
  
  January-February 2020
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  Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
  Photograph by David Leonard
  
  Winter Retreat
  
  The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
  
  January-February 2020
  
  Illustration by Mark Steele
  
  Yesterday’s News
  
  Headlines from Harvard’s history
  
  January-February 2020
  
  Robert L. Scalise
  Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
  
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  Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
  
  January-February 2020
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  This year's Campus Services holiday breakfast featured a "plant-forward" station.
  Photograph by Robert Fitta/Harvard Magazine
  
  While You Were Away
  
  End-of-semester news and fun from around campus
  
  1.2.20
  
  Illustration by Mark Steele
  
  Yesterday’s News
  
  Headlines from Harvard’s history
  
  January-February 2020
  
  At left: The field team included (from left) Asah, Naban, Ashton (note his indispensable leech socks), and Ladi.
  Photograph by Timothy Whitmore/Courtesy of Peter Ashton and Arnoldia.
  
  From Borneo to Rodeo
  
  Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending
  
  January-February 2020
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  Marcyliena Morgan: How Has Harvard Cultivated Hiphop?
  
  10.21.19
  
  Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?
  
  10.7.19
  
  Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?
  
  9.30.19
  
  David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?
  
  9.20.19
  
  Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
  
  9.13.19
  
  Lawrence Lessig: What Leads to Academic Corruption?
  
  9.9.19
  
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