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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
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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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July-August 2016
Letters
Readers respond to articles on robots, final clubs, comparing campuses, and more.
President Faust writes about Harvardians’ tradition of military service.
How Harvard might discuss liberal-arts education more fruitfully
The College Pump
The long-gone Dudley Gate, caught with no hands on its clock
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Semitic Museum
“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum
In this Issue
Franklinia alatamaha
Photograph by Jon Hetman/The Arnold Arboretum
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
In this 1835 portrait by Charles Osgood, Bowditch sits with the first two volumes of his Mécanique Céleste translation, as a bust of Laplace looks on.
Image © 2006 Peabody Essex Museum/Photograph by Mark Sexton
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
Leonard speaking at the most recent Sundance Film Festival, where he served on the jury
Photograph by Andrew Toth/Getty Images
Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine
Photographs clockwise from top left: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images; Laura Buckman/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images; David McNew/AFP/Getty Images; Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images; Joe Raedle/Getty Images
How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics
Letters
Readers respond to articles on robots, final clubs, comparing campuses, and more.
President Faust writes about Harvardians’ tradition of military service.
How Harvard might discuss liberal-arts education more fruitfully
Right Now
Illustration by Dan Page
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.
Illustration by Michael Witte
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
Illustration by Chris Madden
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.
Harvard Squared
The evocative entrance to Winslow Farm Sanctuary
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Debra White built the Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary in Norton, Massachusetts.
The saunas are steps from Furnace Pond, where a raft beckons swimmers.
Photograph by James Ahola
The benefits of sweating at a traditional Finnish sauna in Pembroke, Massachusetts
An early illustration by Winslow Homer, now on display in Belmont.
Image courtesy of the 1853 Homer House
A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.
The dining room, although refined and calm, could use a splash of warmth from the upstairs lounge.
Photograph by Wayne E. Chinnock/Courtesy of Parsnip
Parsnip restaurant is a handsome replacement for Upstairs on the Square.
John Harvard's Journal
Law School graduates flaunt their profession’s symbol of authority.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.
Back row from left: Arnold Rampersad, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, El Anatsui, Elaine Fuchs, and Martin Rees. Front row from left: David Brion Davis, Stephen Spielberg, President Drew Faust, Mary L. Bonauto, Provost Alan Garber, and Judith J. Thomson Photograph by Stu Rosner
The honorands of 2016
Steven Spielberg
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others
Rashida Jones
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Speakers making funny at the 365th Commencement
Joshuah Brian Campbell
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more
From left: Nitin Nohria and Francis J. Doyle III
From left: Photograph ©Susan Young/Harvard Business School;
Photograph by Eliza Grinell/School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Amid an Allston building boom, the first new academic ties between Harvard Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
College classes will cross the Charles.
How to improve class scheduling—now, and when College classes cross the Charles River for the new engineering complex in Allston.
Dustin Tingley Photograph by Jim Harrison
Political scientist Dustin Tingley studies the politics of everyday life.
New Currier House faculty deans Latanya Sweeney and Sylvia Barrett with their son, Leonard
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Currier House chiefs, Harvard College Professors, top teachers, and more
Congressional inquiry reveals insights into Harvard's endowment-management costs, financial aid, and other schools' policies.
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Members of all-female social clubs protest against new sanctions on single-gender organizations.
Photograph by Kit Wu/The Harvard Crimson
Final-club sanctions, a new Corporation member, medical conflicts of interest, MIT capital campaign, and improving student writing
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Slaves at Harvard, an early-childhood education initiative at HGSE, Air Force ROTC returns, climate change, the Extension School, and more
Illustration by Eric Hanson
Pre-Commencement, the Undergraduate assesses his unfinished works.
Sprinters Gabby Thomas (left) and Ngozi Musa are teammates, close competitors, and best friends.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
First-years Ngozi Musa and Gabby Thomas help set the pace for track and field.
Montage
Elizabeth Claire Walker in “Arabian Dance” from The Nutcracker
Photograph by Reed Hutchinson/Los Angeles Ballet
A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls
Tsurumi at work in her studio
Image courtesy of Andrea Tsurumi
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
A star is born (in glass): a juvenile common sea star, Asterias rubens.
Photograph by Guido Mocafico/Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Ireland
Recent books with Harvard connections
An iconic motif: Aeneas and the Sibyl (at upper left) in the Underworld, c.1530 (a plaque with enamel and gold on copper)
Image from the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom / Bridgeman Images
A new translation from the Aeneid
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Commercial fisherman Russell Sherman still admires the fishermen he worked for in his early days: “Strong, and strong-willed, independent men. Most were veterans of World War II, and had been through a lot—they had tremendous work ethic. And I wanted nothing but to earn their respect.”
Photograph by Stu Rosner
How Gloucester’s Russell Sherman got hooked
Top row from left: Thomas G. Everett and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. Bottom row from left: John H. McArthur and Betsey Bradley Urschel
Photograph by Stu Rosner
For “extraordinary service to the University”
The four winners will begin study in the other Cambridge this fall.
Ruth Rabb and Leon Starr
Photographs by Jim Harrison
The oldest graduates at Commencement
From left: John O’Malley, Cecilia Rouse, David Mumford, and Francis Fukuyama
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo/Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study
Candidates nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association drew the most votes.
Megan White Mukuria and her tools
Image courtesy of ZanaAfrica
An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens
Forward-turned-author Bill Keenan
Photograph courtesy of Bill Keenan and Skyhorse Publishing
The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan
The College Pump
The long-gone Dudley Gate, caught with no hands on its clock
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Semitic Museum
“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum