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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
Photograph courtesy of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.
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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
Photograph by Leah L. Jones, Photographer, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
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.
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
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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The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
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The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
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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
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A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
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Two explorers strip to stay aloft.
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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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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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November-December 2015
Letters
A letter from the editor
Readers respond to articles on impact investing, “Cowboy” doctors, Gen Ed, and more.
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
Henry D. Rogers performing as Grandfather with Annie Gaybis in 2009
Photograph by Mike Erdelyi Photography
Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout
Treasure
Cuban expatriate volunteers shown wading ashore during the U.S. assault. Those in their own clothes are unretouched—but peers wearing U.S. calvary tops have been rendered as whites.
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University
When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902
In this Issue
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere
Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait in Tuxedo, 1927. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund, BR41.37. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
Forensic pioneer Joseph T. Walker (at left) collects blood and scraps of flesh from the bathtub drain of a 1936 murder victim.
Photograph by Leslie Jones/Courtesy of the Boston Public Library
Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952
Daniel Aaron
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
Letters
A letter from the editor
Readers respond to articles on impact investing, “Cowboy” doctors, Gen Ed, and more.
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
In vibrant Times Square, Broadway plays and musicals compete to become the next megahit.
Photograph by Christian Baitg Schreiweis/iStock
Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.
Thermal maps (right) superimposed on this termite mound show contrasting temperature profiles for night (left half) and day (right half).
Photographs courtesy of Hunter King and Sam Ocko
Physicists look into the function of towering termite mounds.
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Measuring the economic growth of nations is not enough, says Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.
Harvard Squared
Brad Shur performing in his new show, Cardboard Explosion!
Photograph courtesy of the Puppet Showplace Theater
Contemporary takes on puppetry in Brookline, Massachusetts
Lorraine O’Grady
Photograph by Elia Alba
Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers at the Carpenter Center
Photograph courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Things to do and see when it's cold out
Stan Munro’s "toothpicked" version of St. Basil’s Cathedral, in Moscow
Photograph by Toni M. Horrace
Stan Munro’s toothpick designs are on display at the Fuller Craft Museum.
John Harvard's Journal
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Josep Lluís Sert’s International Style icon gets a half-century exterior toning and face lift.
For Harvard, the results point in particular to a problem in the College.
Jon Hanson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A law professor plumbs social problems.
An update on the Harvard Campaign
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
As a 5.8 percent return boosts the endowment to $37.6 billion, changes aim to address persistent underperformance.
Freshman Convocation
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Morning Prayers and Freshman Convocation themes, economists’ exodus, health benefits round two, and reengineering admissions
Rendering by Behnisch Architekten
University news briefs: retaining recruits, online learning, appointments, awards, and more
Illustration by David Wheeler
The Undergraduate contemplates books in a digital age.
Having picked off a Brown pass, defensive back Asante Gibson—wearing his team’s new, Nike-designed home uniform—heads goalward during the Crimson’s second-quarter onslaught.
Harvard Athletic Communications
Formidable early-season football
Shilpa Tummala
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Post-surgery, a top athlete reestablishes herself.
Montage
Hulsey in her studio, with book presses behind her
Portrait by Stu Rosner
A printmaker plays with the systems and structures of language.
Benjamin Scheuer playing one of the six instruments he uses in the course of his one-man musical, The Lion
Photograph by Matthew Murphy/Courtesy of Benjamin Scheuer
In his poignant one-man musical, Benjamin Scheuer finds his roar.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
American higher education and its discontents
1870s Japan: a hand-tinted albumen print by Raimund von Stillfried showing two women posing
Photograph from the book
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Adam Freudenheim
Photograph courtesy of Pushkin Publishing
A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.
Jordan Weiers ’16 and Gabriela D.M. "Gaby" Ruiz-Colón ’16
Photograph by Juliette Lynch
Harvard seniors honored for improving House life
Top from left: Thomas E. Blamey, Peter A. Carfagna, and Robert P. Fox Jr. Bottom row from left: Joan Keenan, Robert M. Kraft, and Nancy Sinsabaugh
The 2015 Harvard Alumni Association Award winners
Top row from left: William L. Eisenhart, Tanya Ryk Friedman, and Anita Warren Fritze. Bottom row from left: Marsha Hirano-Nakanishi, Meg Streeter Lauck, Garrett Scott Olmsted, and David F. Pinto
Harvard alumni honored for volunteer admissions interviewing
The College Pump
Henry D. Rogers performing as Grandfather with Annie Gaybis in 2009
Photograph by Mike Erdelyi Photography
Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout
Treasure
Cuban expatriate volunteers shown wading ashore during the U.S. assault. Those in their own clothes are unretouched—but peers wearing U.S. calvary tops have been rendered as whites.
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University
When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902