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  A panoramic shot of the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron EDM, a device in the laboratory of Silsbee professor of physics John Doyle that is designed to make measurements of the quantum physical behavior of electrons so precise that the results could change understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics.
  Photograph courtesy of John Doyle/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics
  
  A Quantum Science Initiative
  
  Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
  
  11.14.18
  
  Harvard Medical School Advances Research with $200-Million Gift
  
  Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
  
  11.8.18
  
  Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
  Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
  
  A Turning Point for WHRB
  
  Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
  
  11.2.18
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  A panoramic shot of the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron EDM, a device in the laboratory of Silsbee professor of physics John Doyle that is designed to make measurements of the quantum physical behavior of electrons so precise that the results could change understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics.
  Photograph courtesy of John Doyle/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics
  
  A Quantum Science Initiative
  
  Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
  
  11.14.18
  
  Harvard Medical School Advances Research with $200-Million Gift
  
  Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
  
  11.8.18
  
  David Reich
  Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
  
  Genetics and the Human Revolution
  
  Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?
  
  10.30.18
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  Illustration by Maya Ish-Shalom
  
  Language Learner
  
  The Undergraduate considers study abroad.
  
  November-December 2018
  
  Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.
  Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
  
  The Players
  
  How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
  
  November-December 2018
  
  Richard Montañez
  Photograph courtesy of Harvard University’s Office of Career Services
  
  No Such Thing as Just a Janitor
  
  Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
  
  9.27.18
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  Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
  Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
  
  A Turning Point for WHRB
  
  Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
  
  11.2.18
  
  The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
  Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
  
  Creative Gifts
  
  Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
  
  November-December 2018
  
  Millicent Todd Bingham looks over her mother’s shoulder in this double portrait from 1931.
  Photograph courtesy of the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection (MS 496E). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
  
  Millicent Todd Bingham
  
  Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
  
  November-December 2018
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  The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
  Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
  
  Creative Gifts
  
  Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
  
  November-December 2018
  
  B & G Oysters
  Courtesy of www.bandgoysters.com
  
  Be Present: Experiential Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List
  
  A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
  
  November-December 2018
  
  Dancers Twyla Tharp and Graciela Figueroa in After ‘Suite’ (1969)
  Photograph by Jack Mitchell
  
  Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
  
  A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
  
  November-December 2018
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  Cambridge 02138
  
  Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
  
  November-December 2018
  
  At the Core
  
  Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
  
  November-December 2018
  
  Illustration by Maya Ish-Shalom
  
  Language Learner
  
  The Undergraduate considers study abroad.
  
  November-December 2018
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  A quilt from the Shape/View series: 2015–2017, all works hand-stitched cotton View III 43×57 in.
  Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
  
  Looking at the Cosmos through a Feminine Lens
  
  Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
  
  11.8.18
  
  Shaina Taub sings as militant suffragist Alice Paul.
  Photograph by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
  
  Shaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song
  
  A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
  
  10.31.18
  
  (Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) Maurice Lalau image for “The Juggler of Notre Dame,” by Anatole France (1924)
  Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
  
  The Juggler’s Tale
  
  A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
  
  November-December 2018
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  Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
  Photograph by Gary Mottola
  
  From the Archives: 1968, When “Harvard Beats Yale”
  
  The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline
  
  11.15.18
  
  Last lunge: With senior right guard Larry Allen Jr. (73) keeping Penn defenders at bay, Harvard senior back Charlie Booker nudges the ball over the goal line for the Crimson's first score.
  Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
  
  Football 2018: Harvard 29, Penn 7
  
  A bludgeoning victory in the season’s final road game
  
  11.11.18
  
  Happy hookup: Having beaten Columbia’s Will Allen, Harvard junior wide receiver Jack Cook waits for the pass from senior quarterback Tom Stewart. Cook made the grab and then dashed to the end zone for the longest touchdown pass in Crimson history—92 yards.
  Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
  
  Football 2018: Harvard 52, Columbia 18
  
  A Senior Day, and game, to celebrate
  
  11.4.18
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  Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
  Photograph by Gary Mottola
  
  From the Archives: 1968, When “Harvard Beats Yale”
  
  The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline
  
  11.15.18
  
  Philip Johnson at his iconic modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949
  Photograph by Arnold Newman/Liaison Agency/Getty Images
  
  The Devil and Philip Johnson
  
  A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
  
  November-December 2018
  
  A well-used hod
  Photograph by Lydia S. C. Rosenberg
  
  Hand-Crafted
  
  Messenger from the past
  
  November-December 2018
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  A Harvard Magazine Tradition Ends
  
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  Cryptic Puzzle: “Regatta”
  
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  Cryptic Puzzle: “Gift”
  
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  Cryptic Puzzle: “Diversifying”
  
  2.17.16
  
  Cryptic Puzzle: “Coach”
  
  12.14.15
  
  Harvard Puzzles by John de Cuevas
  
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Vamsi Mootha with an image from his lab showing thread-like mitochondria (green) moving within a cell.
Portrait and collage by Jim Harrison; image of mitochondria courtesy of Vamsi Mootha and the Mootha Laboratory

The Cell’s Power Plant

Probing mitochondria and oxygen, Vamsi Mootha finds new ways to understand disease.
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The Progress of the Disciplines

Leading professors on the future of their fields

September-October 2011

Pamela Silver

Pamela Silver

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

For Harvard’s 375th anniversary, leading professors predict the future of their fields:

Biology in This Century, by Pamela A. Silver

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century, by Nitin Nohria

Reading Is Elemental, by Helen Vendler

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century, by Cherry A. Murray

Sciences Still Young, by Edward L. Glaeser

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

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