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A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Curtis McMullen's prints hang in the Science Center lobby.
Photograph by Drew PendergrassA Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize. The image may be the only contemporaneous visual depiction by Europeans showing the importance of agriculture to Native Americans in the New World.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
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A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize. The image may be the only contemporaneous visual depiction by Europeans showing the importance of agriculture to Native Americans in the New World.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
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The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
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The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
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Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Annette Samuels, caught between classes
Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard MagazineAnnette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
Opportunities for self-improvement, and fun, at and around Harvard
Provincetown’s winter harbor
Photograph by Age Fotostock/Alamy Stock PhotoJust enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
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Curtis McMullen's prints hang in the Science Center lobby.
Photograph by Drew PendergrassA Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
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Memorial Church
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What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsSexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
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This year's Campus Services holiday breakfast featured a "plant-forward" station.
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At left: The field team included (from left) Asah, Naban, Ashton (note his indispensable leech socks), and Ladi.
Photograph by Timothy Whitmore/Courtesy of Peter Ashton and Arnoldia.Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending
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November-December 2014
Letters
A letter from the editor: an MIT vision of its educational future
Taxing carbon, teaching writing, legacy admissions, the sly Slive, louts
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
Letters
A letter from the editor: an MIT vision of its educational future
Taxing carbon, teaching writing, legacy admissions, the sly Slive, louts
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
Researchers at Mclean Hospital develop a magnet that treats depression and bipolar disorder
Harnessing civic data makes governments more responsive to citizens.
Harvard Squared
Gospel choir concert offers Christmas songs and other inspirational music at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A new exhibit at Harvard’s Peabody Museum highlights decorative weaponry through the ages.
The greenhouses at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens offer greenery and blossoms in winter.
John Harvard's Journal
Harvard’s Art Museums reopen, poised to fulfill their pedagogical purpose.
Beginning the semester with Freshman Convocation, Morning Prayers, a learning and teaching conference, and cuts in employee benefits
A National Medal of Technology for SEAS dean, National Humanities Medalists, MacArthur Fellows, and more
Harvard's endowment nearly returns to its peak value—and welcomes new investment leadership.
Vice-presidential vacancies in finance and communications, sexual-assault legislation, grade inflation, and more
Further dialogue on campus, and climate-change actions elsewhere
Wesley Saunders of basketball excels at anticipation, just as he did in chess.
Montage
In To Make Men Free, Heather Cox Richardson seeks to explain the back-and-forth history of Republican Party goals.
Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Harvard’s World War I participants are honored in an updated volume edited by Douglass M. Carver ’59.
“Harvard-Hiring-Harvard” helps students find employment.
Filmmakers seek visual material from the early days of Partners In Health.
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