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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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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
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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
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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.
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An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
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The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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March-April 2016
Letters
Room for improvement in Wintersession
Readers respond to articles on migration, capital punishment, House “masters,” and more.
President Faust on Harvard’s “science and medicine” community
The College Pump
Excerpt of a letter from John Quincy Adams
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
J.Q. Adams on patronage and rhetoric, Daniel Merton Wegner on cats
Treasure
Large enough to cover its player’s face like a mask, this ocarina was probably used for parades.
Photograph © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
New music from ancient instruments
In this Issue
Members of the Dark Room Collective, photographed by Elsa Dorfman in 2013; from left to right: Sharan Strange, Janice Lowe, Danielle Legros Georges, John Keene, Tisa Bryant, Major Jackson, Artress Bethany White, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Patrick Sylvain, and Tracy K. Smith
Photograph © 2016 Elsa Dorfman, RI ’72-’74
How the Dark Room Collective made space for a generation of African-American writers
Chris Green and Kristen Stilt in Austin Hall’s Ames courtroom with Lola, Stilt’s rescue dog from Egypt
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Animal law takes hold at Harvard Law School.
Caleb Strong portrait by Gilbert Stuart, courtesy of Frederick Strong Moseley III ’51
Brief life of an exemplary politician: 1745-1819
The views of Charles William Eliot and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (whose images follow) aided the descendants of immigrants in keeping out new immigrants, as depicted in Joseph Keppler’s 1893 “Looking Backward,” from Puck.
Puck, January 11, 1893
When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”
Letters
Room for improvement in Wintersession
Readers respond to articles on migration, capital punishment, House “masters,” and more.
President Faust on Harvard’s “science and medicine” community
Right Now
Illustration by Eva Vázquez
Economists rethink the merits of school-choice systems.
Daniel Nagin, faculty director of the clinic (right), and Andrew Roach, J.D. ’13, meet with a veteran in Jamaica Plain.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic
Harvard Law students fight for veterans’ rights locally and nationally.
Illustration by Sam Falconer
Historians at Harvard's Initiative for the Science of the Human Past investigate ice cores.
Harvard Squared
The Asian American Dance Troupe
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard's Arts First Festival offers more than 100 events.
A Sherman tank dominates the “America Enters the War” exhibit
Photographs courtesy of the Museum of World War II
As living memory of the war dims, curators shape a modern museum of history.
“Unicorn Tayss,” Walter Steiger, spring 2013
Courtesy of Walter Steiger, Photograph by Jay Zuckerhorn
Upward of 150 haute couture and historic shoes are on display in Manchester, N.H.
See new lambs, try out the arts of spinning and weaving, and witness the annual rite of sheep-shearing at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary
Woolapalooza is held at Mass Audubon’s sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Hiroko Sakan and her son, Takeo, work together at their bakery, Japonaise.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Pastry shops that “do it the old-fashioned way”
John Harvard's Journal
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Building capacity, literally, at the public-policy campus
Mather House co-master Michael Rosengarten and master Christie McDonald
Photograph courtesy of Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten
The Harvard community confronts the challenges of inclusion.
James Mickens
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Harvard computer scientist on how to build a universe
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
An Overseers' challenge slate, reengineering admissions, and General Education revised
Shirley M. Tilghman
Photograph courtesy of Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley Tilghman on the Corporation, Jane Yellen at Radcliffe, encouraging entrepreneurs, aiming at endowments, and more
Illustration by Miguel Davilla
“The absence of prejudice is still a long way from the presence of interest.”
This season Maschmeyer made her 2,108th save, surpassing the Harvard women’s hockey all-time record.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Hockey goalie Emerance Maschmeyer steadies her team, in record-setting fashion.
Pre-injury, Zena Edosomwan ’17 anchored the Crimson offense as a reliable scorer in the post and an outstanding rebounder.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
An unexpectedly challenging season for men’s basketball
Montage
A scene from New Line Theatre's production of High Fidelity, from its 2011-2012 season
Photograph © New Line Theatre
A daring musical theater company turns 25.
Looking up: For all their evolutionary advantages, mammalian species have shorter life spans than ants and trees.
Photograph by © JF Tringali/istock
E.O. Wilson on why the human species ought to be a little humble
Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The many pursuits of musicians Damon & Naomi
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Lee leaps down the stage with co-star Kelli O’Hara in The King and I’s iconic polka, “Shall We Dance?”
Photograph by Paul Kolnik
An actor’s rule on stage and screen
Recent books with Harvard connections
Jefferson’s perspective and sense of self finally receive the close scrutiny required for understanding this complex Founder.
Photograph by iStock
Thomas Jefferson's “fractal” view of American self-governance
Alumni
Plaintiffs Pablo Girault, Armando Santacruz, and Juan Francisco Torres Landa show off the permits allowing them to grow and use marijuana.
Photograph by Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images
A new lead on stemming drug-related violence in Mexico
Candidates for Harvard Overseers and HAA directors
Harvard celebrates its volunteer alumni leaders.
The Harvard Club of New York City unveils a portrait of John P. (Jack) Reardon Jr. ’60 by Everett Raymond Kinstler.
The Harvard Club of New York City honors John P. (Jack) Reardon Jr. ’60.
The College Pump
Excerpt of a letter from John Quincy Adams
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
J.Q. Adams on patronage and rhetoric, Daniel Merton Wegner on cats
Treasure
Large enough to cover its player’s face like a mask, this ocarina was probably used for parades.
Photograph © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
New music from ancient instruments