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The three faculty members are leaders on campus and in their research fields.
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Catherine Dulac, Robert J. Sampson, and Arlene Sharpe receive highest faculty appointment
esperanza spalding performing at a White House event
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Professor of practice cites misalignment with Harvard's priorities
The Center for Disease Control’s robust system for tracking the spread of COVID-19 variants show the rapid spread of BQ.1 and BQ1.1, both of which are resistant to the last remaining monoclonal antibody treatments currently available. This creates a new risk for immunocompromised individuals, including those undergoing certain treatments for cancer.
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Harvard experts on healthy holiday gatherings—and the risk of a “tripledemic”
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Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.
Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Hansjörg Wyss
Courtesy of The Wyss Foundation
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Melanie Wood, Danna Freedman, and Emily Wang
Photographs courtesy of MacArthur Foundation; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A mathematician, a chemist, and a professor of medicine who studies the health effects of incarceration
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
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Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
Harvard Business School
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Hansjörg Wyss
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The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Ben S. Bernanke
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Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
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Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
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A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
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Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
Celeste Ng
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“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
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(1/5) DOG DAY AFTERNOON Yale's Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog wondered what the ruckus was all about.
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A tough finish to a quirky season
SPREADING THE WEALTH Enjoying one of the best days for a quarterback in Harvard annals, Charlie Dean (11) surveys the Penn defense. The Crimson senior signal-caller riddled the Quakers, completing 29 of 38 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns while connecting with nine receivers.
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Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!
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(1/4) CRUNCH TIME Harvard's Joe Young is converged upon by a beehive of Columbia tacklers. The Crimson senior wideout snared three passes, one for 22 yards.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonSloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.
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The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
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Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
George Reisner, 1924
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Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
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A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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Letters
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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
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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
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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