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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.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
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
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
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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.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
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
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
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 UniversityNeel Joshi harnesses bacteria to build products sustainably.
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Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
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Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Annette Samuels, caught between classes
Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard MagazineAnnette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
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New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
Photograph by Binita PatelThe Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
Provincetown’s winter harbor
Photograph by Age Fotostock/Alamy Stock PhotoJust enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....
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President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
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What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
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Photograph by Stu RosnerConnecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
Bearden’s stance in this ca. 1940 photograph prefigures his self-portrait in his collage Artist With Model in Studio (shown below), painted three decades later.
Photograph by Sam Shaw, ca. 1940s / Courtesy of the Romare Bearden FoundationBrief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988
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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
The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsSexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
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This year's Campus Services holiday breakfast featured a "plant-forward" station.
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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.Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending
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July-August 2011
Letters
The meaning of life, diabetes, Gandhi, burlesque
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
Reducing our dependence on imported oil—while addressing the threat of climate change
Letters
The meaning of life, diabetes, Gandhi, burlesque
Right Now
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
An omnium-gatherum of notes and statistics, vital and otherwise
An experienced Stanford administrator, an expert on health policy and economics, returns to take a big job at his alma mater.
Faculty consulting for the Qaddafi government prompts a debate on academic principles.
Headlines from Harvard's history
The psychology professor returns to Harvard, but not to teaching.
Arrivals, appointments, awards
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
Radcliffe Institute's dean steps down, FAS's fitter fisc, renovation for Old Quincy, J-term update, and other Harvard news
A senior ponders cultural capital, socioeconomic realities, and career choices.
Montage
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Marjorie Thomas '42 and Donald F. Brown '30 led the alumni parade on Commencement afternoon.
The newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association
Four new graduates head back to school—in the other Cambridge
A record-breaking fiftieth-reunion total is one among many contributions.
Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.
Summer events hosted by Shared Interest Groups
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