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The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
Image courtesy of Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
Loeb House, where the University's governing boards meet
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe coronavirus pandemic threatened to disenfranchise alumni balloting.
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Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC“We cannot proceed as if nothing has changed,” FAS dean Claudine Gay wrote. “Everything has changed."
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The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
Image courtesy of Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
Karen Dynan
Photograph courtesy of Karen DynanThe severe economic fallout, in context
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
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Professor and platform: William C. Kirby logs on to Zoom from home for his first remote teaching session.
On taking a Harvard Gen Ed class remotely with William C. Kirby
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
In a paper aimed at fellow educators, David Malan reports on interventions designed to teach academic honesty in the wildly popular introductory computer science course he teaches at Harvard.
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Loeb House, where the University's governing boards meet
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe coronavirus pandemic threatened to disenfranchise alumni balloting.
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, chair of the Harvard Alumni Association Committee to Nominate Overseers and Elected Directors, and Philip Lovejoy, HAA executive director
Photographs: Courtesy of Tracy P. Palandjian and Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni AssociationOn the eve of a contested election for the governing board, looking under the hood of the nominating process
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At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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Contra dancing, Balkan music, sea chanteys—and more!
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
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Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
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“What will it mean to end our time on this campus with no closure, no time to reflect on what it all meant?”
From 7 Ware Street, the magazine’s office
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How we plan to serve you during the coronavirus disruptions
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Ken Liu
Photograph © Lisa Tang LiuKen Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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2020 Ivy foil champion Geoffrey Tourette '21 celebrates a point.
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A focus on process leads Harvard fencers to an Ivy championship.
At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Matt “Happy” Gilmore smiles behind the wheel. Zamboni-driving takes focus, but Gilmore says that he loves waving to children in the crowd and making their day.
Photograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Are you eligible to carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?
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Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty ImagesMorison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
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November-December 2011
Letters
Harvard @375, Mary Berenson, energy options, colleges in crisis, and more
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its uniquely long survival
An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.
Letters
Harvard @375, Mary Berenson, energy options, colleges in crisis, and more
Right Now
Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.
Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.
George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.
New England Regional
New England Dance Resources
John Harvard's Journal
The Mahindra Humanities Center erects eight “poetry posts” to prompt reflection about loss and recovery.
The Allston Work Team's development recommendations have been endorsed by the Harvard Corporation.
The College redistributes aid among lower- and higher-income undergraduates, and introduces a new family financial-planning tool.
Headlines from Harvard's history
Dean Michael D. Smith presents his draft annual report: budget, faculty growth, and more
The newly minted McArthur University Professor co-directs the Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard Business School.
Divinity School dean William A. Graham steps down, Nobel Prizes awarded to seven alumni, Dumbarton Oaks’ expansion, MacArthur Fellows announced, and other Harvard news.
An undergraduate travels to Namibia in the hope that, by flinging herself to a faraway place, she will figure things out.
Montage
The documentary film "Foreign Parts" explores Willets Point, a vanishing junkyard neighborhood in Queens.
Erin Wade's Vinaigrette salad bistro serves organic, home-grown greens in Santa Fe.
Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden review recent U.S. economic woes in the context of the “capital flow cycle.”
Meredith James '04 creates surrealist videos and sculptures that challenge perceptions.
Gordon S. Wood on the birth of the United States, Steven Pinker on declining violence, Jack M. Balkin on "Living Originalism," and a dozen others whose recent books have Harvard connections
Alumni
The class of 1971 reflects on the coeducational living experiment.
Anne Douglas ’12, of Adams House, and Marcel Moran ’11, of Eliot House, are the 2011 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.
Seven alumni received Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards in 2011.
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize outstanding service to the University through alumni activities.
Alumni join in to help British filmmaker Elizabeth McKay with her forthcoming documentary, ”Harvard at Chanzeaux: A Tribute to Laurence Wylie.”
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café in Boulder, Colorado, sells beverages, pastries, and poetry—nothing else.
"No Look Pass," a documentary film about Harvard basketball player Emily Tay ’08, was written, produced, and directed by Melissa Johnson ’00.
Two alumnae travel across America to distribute socks and document the plight of homeless youths.
News from Shared Interest Groups
The Boxing Club aims to build an alumni network.
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