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A Radcliffe Institute panel examines the protest movement against police violence and structural racism.
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard MagazineSome students have deferred their enrollment to next year.
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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies
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A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality
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Sofra's fresh-baked raspberry-rose jam turnovers
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Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
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(1 of 4) Crabapple specimens, with views of Boston, on Peters HillPhotograph by Jon Hetman/Courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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Strict lines in the sand
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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