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Smith Campus Center, one of the tangible results of The Harvard Campaign
Photograph by Jim HarrisonThe University reveals the results for its record-setting fund drive.
H. Luke Shaefer directs the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions—now partnering with Harvard to address economic mobility in Detroit.
Photograph courtesy of Poverty Solutions/University of MichiganJoint efforts aim at alleviating poverty and fighting the opioid epidemic.
From left, Presidents M. Roy Wilson, M.D. ’80, of Wayne State University and Lawrence S. Bacow of Harvard and Mary Kramer, director of the economic-development forum, speaking on higher education in Detroit on September 14.
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsPresident Bacow listens (and builds partnerships) in Michigan.
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Illustration by Jim Frazier
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
Illustration by Martin Hargreaves
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
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“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
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Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine Zhang
Photographs courtesy of the subjects
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
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Photograph courtesy of Oldways, www.oldwayspt.org
Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston
Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
Photograph by Dennis Tangney Jr./Getty Images
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
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At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
(Click to see full image) “Stop Police Killings, Selma, 1965,” by Steve Schapiro
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Aquisition of Photographs. 2018.115A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences
Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
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We have handoff: After receiving the ball from quarterback and classmate Jake Smith, Harvard sophomore running back Aaron Shampklin scanned the line for an opening—the kind that he ran through all afternoon.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic CommunicationsA strong start, and for Crimson running back Aaron Shampklin, a breakout day
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Boosting the game, and The Game
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Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
Poster courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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Davis relaxing in 1910 at Devil’s Thumb, on the Continental Divide near Corona, Colorado
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Brief life of a pioneering geomorphologist: 1850-1934
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September-October 2015
Letters
A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
The 1927 baseball team. Zarakov is fourth from left in the front row, elbow to elbow with Mitchell.
Courtesy of the Harvard Club of New York
How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run
Treasure
Sheet VII of Rock’s map of the “Cho-Ni” territory
Map courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
An adventuresome Arnold Arboretum botanizer's heroics in 1920s China
In this Issue
In Nigeria, Tomato Jos hopes to help improve farmers’ practices and sales, to boost their incomes.
Photograph courtesy of Tomato Jos
Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid through private enterprise
Andrew Bujalski
Photograph by Jay L. Clendenin/Contour by Getty Images
The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
With her 1964 screenprint the juiciest tomato of all, Corita Kent created a word portrait of the Virgin Mary as a tomato. This print seems to establish the artist nun as an apostate: in fact, she was responding both to liberalizing changes taking place within the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council and to Pop art’s appropriation of commercial language, images, and symbols to create fine art.
Collection of Jason Simon, New York, TL41302. © Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John and Kimiko Powers, M15531. © / courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.
An 1849 portrait of Bond by Cephas Giovanni Thompson
Portrait courtesy of Harvard University Portrait Collection, H180. Image: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Brief life of Harvard's first astronomer: 1789-1859
Letters
A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
Illustration by Mike Lester
Overly aggressive physicians account for significant healthcare cost, according to a recent study.
Fossil river deltas on Mars, such as this one in Eberswalde Crater, bear many similarities to river deltas on Earth. Such features suggest that Mars once had flowing liquid water on the surface, motivating study of the planet’s early climate.
Photograph by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Researchers suspect ancient Martian climate was cold and icy.
Illustration by Tom Chitty
According to two HBS studies, sharing can benefit individuals but hurt businesses.
Harvard Squared
The Crane Estate’s palatial abode and hillside Casino Complex
Photograph Courtesy of the Trustees
Restorations revive the grand spirit of a North Shore estate.
Masks, mariachi music, and sugar skulls at Harvard’s Peabody Museum
Roger D. Metcalf/Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology highlights the holiday on November 1.
Cambridge Carnival dancers on parade
Photograph by Paul Byran/Cambridge Carnival
The Cambridge Carnival celebrates food and culture.
Animaris Adulari (2012)
Photographs courtesy of Theo Jansen
Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests
The Hull Lifesaving Museum is housed in the original, Victorian-era Lifesaving Station on Boston's South Shore.
Photograph courtesy of the Hull Lifesaving Museum
The South Shore's Hull Lifesaving Museum reflects more than a century of rescues at sea.
John Harvard's Journal
Heavy construction under way in the Harvard Kennedy School's (former) courtyard
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Overhauling the Kennedy School campus, the Business School’s new executive-education center, and College House renewal
On the first day of the new curriculum’s launch, Gordon professor of medical education Richard Schwartzstein (at far right, and in subsequent photographs) leads an orientation in a large group classroom equipped with interactive technologies that facilitate case-based collaborative learning.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Harvard Medical School's new curriculum emphasizes the process of learning to learn rather than rote memorization.
Catherine Brekus
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A Harvard Divinity School specialist on women in early America
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Harvard Kennedy School dean-designate
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The Kennedy School’s new dean, Alice in Wonderland exhibition, the late James F. Rothenberg, and more
Robin J. Ely
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The Business School looks at gender effects within organizations—and its own walls.
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Bailey Trela ’16 and Jenny Gathright ’16
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The magazine’s Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective.
Illustration by Sarah Hanson
The undergraduate finds an unexpected route to well-being.
Montage
One of Chiang’s covers for Wonder Woman
Image by Cliff Chiang
A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.
Forrest O’Connor (at left), Kate Lee, and Jim Shirey
Photograph by Wayne Ebinger
A folk trio finds their harmony, on the road.
Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only the Animals and Blood Kin
Courtesy of Ceridwen Dovey
What animals can teach us
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Olmsted's 1867 plan for “Fort Green or Washington Park, in the city of Brooklyn,” New York Plan from Design for Laying Out Grounds Known as Fort Green or Washington Park, in the City of Brooklyn, 1897
Courtesy of the Prospect Park Alliance
Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more
Illustration by Gaby D’Alessandro
Two practitioners consider the enterprise of pure mathematics.
Alumni
Record Hospital veteran Peter Menz tests a rock-and-roll 45.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”
An 1840 etching of the alumni procession during Harvard’s bicentennial celebration in 1836
Courtesy of the Harvard Universty Archives
The Harvard Alumni Association celebrates its founding.
Paul L. Choi ’86, J.D. ’89
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A short profile of Paul L. Choi, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association
Erin Moore and her bicultural guide (below)
Photograph by Fiona Saunders
Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.
Did you take VES 130 or VES 150 during spring term 1967?
The College Pump
The 1927 baseball team. Zarakov is fourth from left in the front row, elbow to elbow with Mitchell.
Courtesy of the Harvard Club of New York
How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run
Treasure
Sheet VII of Rock’s map of the “Cho-Ni” territory
Map courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
An adventuresome Arnold Arboretum botanizer's heroics in 1920s China