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The author's new room, complete with College-supplied quarantine-period (and after) necessities
Photograph by Meena Venkataramanan
What’s changed—and what hasn’t
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.
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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.
Dendritic cells (like the one shown in yellow, within a pink polymer support structure) can be activated to recognize cancer cells. After migrating to the lymph nodes and spleen, they then train immune-system T cells to attack and destroy tumors.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
An implantable cancer vaccine shows promise in training the immune system to attack tumors.
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The author's new room, complete with College-supplied quarantine-period (and after) necessities
Photograph by Meena Venkataramanan
What’s changed—and what hasn’t
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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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“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art
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.
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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 Board of Editors for volume 70 of the Harvard Law Review (1956-1957), immortalized on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.
Photograph courtesy of Nancy Boxley Tepper/reproduction by KLK Photography
An alumna looks back.
The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
From the archives
Tom Nichols
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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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
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”
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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