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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.
Braxton Shelley
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A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
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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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Juneteenth pride: commemorating June 19 in 2020, in Greenwood, the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of 1921
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Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth
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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
Click on arrow at right to view full image
An illuminated page showing Abu Zayd and his friend al-Harith, narrator of the Impostures, arriving in a village, from a copy of the Maqamat (“Impostures”) created in Baghdad in 1237 by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti. No portrait of al-Hariri is known to exist.
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Brief life of a master storyteller
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A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
Courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum/Milo Stewart Jr. B-50-83
The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
Martin S. Feldstein
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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
Martin S. Feldstein
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September-October 2013
Letters
Letters on geoengineering, energy divestiture, drug discovery, and more
A letter from the editor on the humanities at Harvard
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course
Letters
Letters on geoengineering, energy divestiture, drug discovery, and more
A letter from the editor on the humanities at Harvard
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
The Internet has led to cultural and economic changes that tilt power away from large organizations, argues Nicco Mele in a new book.
Elizabeth Greenspan explores the rebuilding of the Twin Towers in her new book Battle for Ground Zero.
A poster by Harvard scientists shows 4.6 billion years of evolutionary history.
New England Regional
Three snapshots from the front lines
John Harvard's Journal
An outside review of Harvard's e-mail reviews finds further problems of policy and execution.
The associate professor of urban planning studies sports facilities and their impact.
Lawyer James Ryan, new dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a scholar and champion of equal educational opportunity.
From the pages of the <i>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</i> and <i>Harvard Magazine</i>
Facing declining enrollments, the humanities seek to reinvent themselves.
In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, efforts are under way to attract more tenure-track women.
The University details its 10-year aspirations for development on the other side of the Charles River.
Harvard news: College dean, HarvardX, socially responsive investing, library leaders, and more
Montage
<i>Assassin’s Creed’</i>s head writer Corey May explains how writers create video games that are immersive and participatory.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
The College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid honors eight outstanding alumni interviewers.
Photographer Diana Mara Henry ’69 publishes her collection <i>Women on the Move</i>.
Rich Wilson ’72 circled the globe—nonstop, solo, under sail—and has written the tale.
Shared Interest Group events in September and October
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