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Clockwise from top left: Pardis Sabeti, Dan Barouch, Paul Ridker, David Liu, Marc Lipsitch
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More than a dozen Harvard faculty members are honored.
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Harvard reports lower revenues and a loss for the year, as the pandemic’s sweeping effects begin to take hold.
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Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
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Clockwise from top left: Pardis Sabeti, Dan Barouch, Paul Ridker, David Liu, Marc Lipsitch
Image collage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine.
More than a dozen Harvard faculty members are honored.
Photograph by Fabrizio Amoroso/Aperture
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
Fine particle pollution, like that generated by coal-burning power plants, has been linked to increases in neurological disease.
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Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution.
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Professor of government Dustin Tingley (bottom right), faculty director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduces HILT conference panelists (clockwise from top left): Sherri Ann Charleston, Anthony Jack, María Luisa Parra, and Clint Smith.
Screen capture by Harvard Magazine/LGThe Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference considers classroom inclusion and equity.
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The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Harvard professional schools continue (mostly) online learning during the next semester—and other indicators for 2021.
Michael Fabiano, A.L.M. ’16, in the AP newsroom.
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The AP’s Michael Fabiano on the 2020 election
Wildfires in California are one example of climate-change damages happening now.
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Coming to terms with climate change’s relentless, long-term fallout
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Colorful bow ties from The Andover Shop
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Harvard Square venues offer warmth, cheer, and appetizing fare.
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
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Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
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Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Photograph by Fabrizio Amoroso/Aperture
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.
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In 2012, Colton Chapple ’13 threw five touchdowns in Harvard's 39-34 loss to Princeton. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
An all-time performance in an all-time loss
Charles Brickley
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A Harvard great with an all-time boot
Eighteen seasons after his final reception for the Crimson, Morris still has a firm hold on almost every significant Harvard pass-catching record. Photograph by Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images
2000-02: a Crimson Wide Receiver's Fab Four
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Master Yon Lee leads a beginner tai chi course on the MAC Quad.
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The healing of Master Yon Lee
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A Civil War image and an Empire State Building homage
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Sellers at the John Brown Fort, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
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Harvesting History
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
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September-October 2012
Letters
Letters on compromise, constitutional revision, voting fraud, American democracy, and students and cigarettes
Additional September-October issue letters to the editor
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
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Letters
Letters on compromise, constitutional revision, voting fraud, American democracy, and students and cigarettes
Additional September-October issue letters to the editor
Right Now
Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute is developing drug-delivering machines that target designated cells.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
Summer construction—on the Fogg Art Museum, the Business School’s Tata Hall, Old Quincy, and more—renews the campus.
Harvard will build housing and resume construction of a science building, submitting a new Institutional Master Plan by October.
An exhibition from Harvard Business School's historical library collections documents the first wave of U.S. trade with imperial China.
David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.
Harvard's largest solar installation, edX develops, Drew Faust’s research becomes a TV program, the <i>Gilgamesh</i> sculpture, and more
Dunster House will get the first makeover as part of a project to renovate Harvard's Houses. Students will take up temporary residence at the Inn at Harvard.
Headlines from Harvard history
The Undergraduate proctors high-schoolers and looks back on her own high-school days—and her discovery of American liberal-arts education.
Cherone Duggan ’14 and Kathryn Reed ’13 are the magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.
For many decades, placekickers weren’t specialists
He coached for the past 17 seasons and won five Ivy League championships.
Montage
Laurie Krasny Brown crafts colorful works from an “accessible, flexible, beautiful” material.
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
For his new CD, <i> Wisteria,</i> jazz pianist Steve Kuhn proves good things come in trios.
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews <i>The Unheavenly Chorus,</i> by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
A Shared Interest Group aims to support undergraduates whose parents didn't attend a four-year college.
A financial-aid initiative and other College programs help first- generation undergraduates feel at home.
David Bisno ’61 has spearheaded the creation of a mini-museum of horology in the Santa Barbara Courthouse.
Sue Minter ’83 is helping her state recover from the devastation of Hurricane Irene.
Shared Interest Group events in September and October
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