Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE
- Articles
- News
more News
Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/ Caroline Culler
Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
The Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Bostonian13
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
- Research
more Research
From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
Photograph credits from left: Kent Dayton and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2)
Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
Photograph by Morofoto/iStock
“Fine-tuning” an ancient practice to heal, not harm
Cassandra Albinson
Photograph by Stu Rosner; Painting: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) by François Boucher/Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
- Students
more Students
Though WHRB had to initiate its newest members over Zoom, each student picked a traditional five-character radio name.
Extracurriculars cope despite COVID-19.
Rachel Gable
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Rachel Gable’s research on helping first-generation and low-income students succeed at elite colleges
- Alumni
more Alumni
Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/ Caroline Culler
Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
The Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School
Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Bostonian13
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
- Harvard Squared
more Harvard Squared
Click on arrow at right to view image gallery
(1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65Photograph courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
Click on arrow at right to view image gallery
Berkshire East offers majestic views of the Deerfield River Valley. (1 of 8)Photograph courtesy of Berkshire East and Tino Specht
Skiing, snow tubing, and more in Western Massachusetts
- Opinion
more Opinion
Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
Lawrence S. Bacow
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
- Arts
more Arts
Cassandra Albinson
Photograph by Stu Rosner; Painting: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) by François Boucher/Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO
TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
Click on arrow at right to view image gallery
(1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65Photograph courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
- Sports
more Sports
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
Photograph by Martha Stewart
David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
Crimson receiver and returner Andrew Fischer breaks loose for a 58-yard run in the second quarter—one of several huge plays on the day.
Photograph by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A sensational performance leads Harvard over Yale.
- Harvardiana
more Harvardiana
The Board of Editors for volume 70 of the Harvard Law Review (1956-1957), immortalized on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.
Photograph courtesy of Nancy Boxley Tepper/reproduction by KLK Photography
An alumna looks back.
Rob Gogan
The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
- Podcast
- News
- Current Issue
- Archives
From the archives
Karen King
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Bits the Bible Left Out
Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.
- Class
Notes
To access Class Notes or Obituaries, please log in using your Harvard Magazine account and verify your alumni status.
Don't have a Harvard Magazine account? Register Here
Or submit a class note or obituary
- Classifieds
- Donate
Show your Support for
Harvard MagazineYour donation today ensures that Harvard Magazine can continue to provide high-quality content and remain an editorially independent source of news about the Harvard community.
September-October 2008
Letters
Tuberculosis, space and time, military matters...
The College Pump
Seventy years ago, on September 21, came the New England Hurricane of 1938: a.k.a. the Long Island Express...
Treasure
Broadsides and hangings in old England...
In this Issue
Market-based policies for air-pollution control
Brief life of a museum impresario: 1839-1914
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
Letters
Tuberculosis, space and time, military matters...
Right Now
It’s a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharp brains, but they’re not quite sure what to do with them...
Richard L. Taylor’s work connects two discrete domains of mathematics: curved spaces, from geometry, and modular arithmetic, which has to do with counting...
Standing outside a Sri Lankan army base in the spring of 2007, Thrishantha Nanayakkara mapped an entire minefield without once setting foot in it.
In recent years, safety recalls of widely prescribed drugs like the pain-killer Vioxx have sent an unsettling message to consumers.
New England Regional
Autumn events
New England’s auctions thrive
An Italian restaurant on Beacon Hill offers great food with its wine...
John Harvard's Journal
On the sweltering afternoon of July 8, more than 100 onlookers crowded Winthrop Street to watch the Lowell House bells descend...
A new master's program and expansion of the M.D./Ph.D. program are two among many changes to emerge from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) strategic-planning process...
A few years ago, instructor of medicine Pieter Cohen began noticing a strange pattern of symptoms among some of his Brazilian immigrant patients...
Alvin Roth loves how open economics is to people and ideas from different fields...
An injury endangers a striker's season...
From the pages of the <i>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</i> and <i>Harvard Magazine</i>...
Football and soccer previews...
Edward C. Forst ’82 has been named Harvard’s first executive vice president, effective September 1.
Harvard is already trying many green initiatives; it will need to do much more to meet its new greenhouse-gas emissions goal...
As FAS dean Michael D. Smith illustrated with these figures, social sciences (economics, government, history, and so on) attract the largest number of College concentrators...
Jean-Jacques Audubon did not become the internationally celebrated John James Audubon of <i>The Birds of America</i> overnight...
The 10-year tenure of Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will end in September...
Harvard on July 1 opened the newest in an expanding network of international offices, in Shanghai, and is scheduled to launch another in Beijing...
The first Allston science laboratories, now under construction, will present a rectilinear face to the surrounding streets...
I realized that college was over when I opened up the large diploma case to show my family the product of four years’ labor and found...
<i>Harvard Magazine’</i>s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2008-2009 academic year will be Brittney Moraski ’09 and Christian Flow ’10...
Montage
In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.
A small home for good writing
Enron and other capitalist calamities
An art forger's success has less to do with his prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.
Alumni
Three alumnae rabbis help redefine an ancient calling...
The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president is Walter H. Morris Jr. ’73, M.B.A. ’75...
Megan Berthold ’84 is director of research and a therapist for the Program for Torture Victims (PTV) in Los Angeles.
Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.
Afam Onyema ’01 has a job that he wakes up “hungry” to pursue, that has become the passion of his life.
Amanda Fields ’09, of Lowell House and Vista, California, and John Sheffield ’09, of Pforzheimer House and Fayetteville, North Carolina, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars.
Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events...
Alumni, faculty, staff, and friends are invited to remember Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen at Harvard College from 1977 to 1991.
Six alumni will receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards...
The College Pump
Seventy years ago, on September 21, came the New England Hurricane of 1938: a.k.a. the Long Island Express...
Treasure
Broadsides and hangings in old England...