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Matthew Potts, Memorial Church’s new leader
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A successor leader of the Memorial Church
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.
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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.
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The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
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Two explorers strip to stay aloft.
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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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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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September-October 2011
Letters
College crises, energy options, reefs at risk, home cooking, and more
The College Pump
Reunion reflections from David Souter, and a tribute to Carroll Wood
Treasure
A new Archives website offers today's undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.
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Alumni on undergraduate education, then and now
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Visions of the University in 2036
Letters
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Right Now
By reading Darwin, a business school professor has found a unifying way to think about human motivation.
Veils have seen a resurgence among young Muslim women worldwide. Is this a step backward, or a marker of progressive politics?
Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
As a redesigned museum rises, curators choose works for display and plan to increase faculty involvement in the process.
A president in her fifth year surveys the University on the eve of its 375th.
What’s in a (Latin) name?
The University has issued a new set of recommendations for its landholdings there.
Headlines from Harvard's history
Marc Hauser resigns, Kennedy School celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary, new organ for Memorial Church, Fay House renovations, and other Harvard news
Reading at the College, and in ancient Rome
Montage
Singer-songwriter Suzie Brown, a cardiologist by training, has just released her first CD.
A much admired community center in Brooklyn, designed by George Ranalli.
Ezra Vogel’s monumental biography of Deng Xiaopeng, the doctrinaire pragmatist who modernized China.
Alumni
Chung To quit Wall Street to sponsor schooling for China’s "blood orphans."
Fall events hosted by Shared Interest Groups
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The College Pump
Reunion reflections from David Souter, and a tribute to Carroll Wood
Treasure
A new Archives website offers today's undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.