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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 OpticsHarvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
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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 OpticsHarvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
David Reich
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?
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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
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Richard Montañez
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University’s Office of Career Services
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
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Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
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
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
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The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
Dancers Twyla Tharp and Graciela Figueroa in After ‘Suite’ (1969)
Photograph by Jack Mitchell
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
Unite or Perish, Chicago (1968), by John Simmons
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs.2018.119
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
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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
Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
Shaina Taub sings as militant suffragist Alice Paul.
Photograph by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
(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
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
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Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
Photograph by Gary Mottola
The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline
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
A bludgeoning victory in the season’s final road game
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 CrimsonA Senior Day, and game, to celebrate
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Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
Photograph by Gary Mottola
The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) President Bacow delivers his inaugural address.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The University’s new leader focuses on challenges to higher education in America.
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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
Probing mitochondria and oxygen, Vamsi Mootha finds new ways to understand disease.
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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July-August 2014
Letters
Humanities hubris, hoop humor, undergraduate prolixity
A letter from the editor
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
Innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car
Harvard scholars recall the Tiananmen era and ponder its continuing impact
Letters
Humanities hubris, hoop humor, undergraduate prolixity
A letter from the editor
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
Harvard Squared
John Harvard's Journal
The University’s 363rd Commencement, featuring George H. W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Michael R. Bloomberg, and more
At the 363rd Commencement, honorary degrees for George H. W. Bush, Michael R. Bloomberg, Aretha Franklin, Isabel Allende, Joseph Stiglitz, and more
Class of 2014 careers and concerns, hockey jersey for the Corporation's senior fellow, degrees conferred, and more
President Drew Faust on universities' role, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on tolerance, and a seventieth reunion puts learning and life in perspective
Fun during Commencement week: Salman Kahn on the luxe Business School, Mindy Kaling on why law rocks, Michael R. Bloomberg on strong-armed fundraising, and a helmeted Latinist
The temperature rises as students, faculty members, and administrators disagree on University investments in fossil-fuel producers.
Harvard historian of science Naomi Oreskes takes on climate-change skeptics.
Harvard reacts to sexual assaults with new policies and a task force to address issues of campus culture.
Adopting a College honor code, addressing e-mail privacy, moving from courses to credits, and more
National Academy scientists, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Radcliffe Fellows, and more
Fundraising launches for the Business, Dental, Divinity, and Kennedy Schools
Harvard Business School’s Chao Center, College admissions, endowment managers’ compensation, and more
Harvard crew has a winning season
Montage
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Peabody Terrace Children’s Center celebrates a golden anniversary.
Newly elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association
Four seniors have won scholarships to study at Cambridge University.
A “great show of commitment to the community of Harvard and Radcliffe”
The Harvard Alumni for Mental Health Shared Interest Group
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