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Byerly Hall, where the Radcliffe Institute fellows will be able to convene again once fall semester arrives
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Dean Brown-Nagin emphasizes fellows who will “reckon with this moment and its meaning.”
President Bacow releases directive to the community.
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offices, where faculty meetings are held
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Honors teaching excellence, and the memory of Nathan Glazer, in last regular meeting of the academic year
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After renovation, 60 Oxford Street will become the hub for quantum science and engineering at Harvard.
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Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.
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President Bacow releases directive to the community.
Jeremy Lin
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The former NBA star headlines the undergraduates’ virtual celebration May 26.
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The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Kevin Young
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The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
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Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
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The evocative Love Potion
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A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Piattini's sunken patio on Newbury Street, in Boston
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Boston's Piattini Wine Café
A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
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The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
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The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
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The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Click on arrow at right to view full image
The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Braxton Shelley
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A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
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A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
Courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum/Milo Stewart Jr. B-50-83
The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
Martin S. Feldstein
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
For the energetic Rueb, raising an athlete’s floor is as important as raising his ceiling.
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Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.
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University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offices, where faculty meetings are held
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Honors teaching excellence, and the memory of Nathan Glazer, in last regular meeting of the academic year
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
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March-April 2009
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The College Pump
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley
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With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.
The United States must refresh the marriage of excellence and opportunity that characterizes American higher education at its best, argue sociologists Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler.
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
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Harvard Business School’s Peter Tufano says simplifying savings-bond purchases for small savers will benefit citizens and government alike.
History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.
The Internet, by allowing like-minded individuals to self-segregate, has had a polarizing effect on democracy, suggests Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein..
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
New England Regional
Some comments on cohabitation
John Harvard's Journal
Harvard assesses the feasibility of completing capital projects now under way, and the timing of other parts of its institutional master plan.
Harvard and its schools are preparing for broad and potentially deep cost reductions.
An update on the University’s financial contribution
A University-wide task force recommends new degree programs, courses, and spaces for art production.
Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.
Happenings at Harvard in March and April of years past
Harvard marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.
Of archives, libraries, personal memories, and Sylvia Plath
Ice-hockey update
Montage
Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.
John Matteson, who left the law to pursue literature, won a Pulitzer Prize for <em>Eden’s Outcasts,</em> his double biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.
In this excerpt from his new book, <em>The Art and Politics of Science,</em> Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.
Paul M. Barrett reviews The Invisible Constitution, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.
Recent books with Harvard connections
A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Robert Burke’s nonprofit Ladder Up offers tax help and financial advice to the working poor.
This spring, alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board.
The HAA clubs committee awards were presented February 5
Comings and Goings; Return to Harvard Day; and a special notice regarding Harvard's Commencement Exercises
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The College Pump
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley