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“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
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Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
Photograph credits from left: Kent Dayton and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2)
Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
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Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
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Cassandra Albinson
Photograph by Stu Rosner; Painting: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) by François Boucher/Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO
TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
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An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
Photograph by Martha Stewart
David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
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The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
“Women in Science” on display
From the archives
Tom Nichols
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
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.
A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
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.
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.
Animaris Adulari (2012)
Photographs courtesy of Theo Jansen
Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests
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
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.
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.
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
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.