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Michael Smith, Jane Kim, and David Hempton
Montage and photographs of schools by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; Headshots (from left): Photograph courtesy of Michael Smith; photograph courtesy of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; photograph by Justin Knight
Appointments for engineering and public health schools, extension of divinity school dean’s tenure
Novelist John Green joins Radcliffe medalist Ophelia Dahl on stage to discuss Partners In Health
Photograph by Tony RinaldoOphelia Dahl, awarded the 2023 Radcliffe Medal, discusses Partners In Health.
Moderator Jacqueline Bhabha (left) with panelists Agnes Binagwaho, Abby Maxman, Natalia Kanem, and Reema Nanavaty
Photograph by Tony RinaldoA Radcliffe Day panel discusses women’s leadership in global healthcare.
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Alia Crum presents about mindfulness in allergy oral immunotherapy. Thich Nhat Hanh, the center's namesake, is featured on the top left of the slide.
Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/Harvard Magazine
Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.
Hvalsey Church
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Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise
The nine graduate student presenters at the 2023 Harvard Horizons symposium
Photomontage courtesy of the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Emerging doctoral research on COVID-19, military model villages, children at risk, and more
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Top left: Bob Burres and Dawn Oates, Ed.M. ’23. Top right: Aileen Louie, Suevon Lee, Jenn Louie, M.Div. ’23, Alex Louie, Lily Louie, and Arthur Louie. Bottom left: speakers at Harvard’s affinity celebration for Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American graduates. Bottom right: David Lewis, M.P.P. ’23, Taylor Jones, M.P.P. ’23, Raie Gessesse, M.P.P. ’23, Selma Ismail, M.P.P. ’23, Lindsey Batteast, M.P.P. ’23.
Photographs by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Harvard affinity celebrations honor graduates’ diverse journeys.
ROTC graduates are sworn in during the commissioning ceremony on May 24th in Tercentenary Theatre.
Photograph by Nell Porter Brown/Harvard Magazine
Sixteen graduates were commissioned into the armed services at the ROTC ceremony.
President Bacow delivering his final Baccalaureate address, to the class of 2023.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
In his valedictory baccalaureate address, President Bacow emphasizes the value of humility.
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The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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Portrait of Petronila Méndez (1763), by Diego Antonio de Landaeta
Image courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation/ photographs by Jamie Stukenberg
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Delivering the gorgeous goods
Photograph courtesy of Fivefork Farms
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Fall River Heritage State Park’s boardwalk
Photograph by Sanghwan Kim/istock
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
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Catherine Yeo performing at the Smith Center last October during the Weatherhead Center's International Comedy Night
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For an Asian American woman, performing comedy is about much more than jokes.
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
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Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True and Carl Phillips's Then the War were among this year's Pulitzer winners.
Pulitzer prize medal in public domain; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
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The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
Jimmy Tingle
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Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
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Point guard Harmoni Turner '25 had 23 points and seven assists in Sunday's game against Columbia.
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Harvard women’s basketball’s deep WNIT run—and what it portends
Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
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Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Memorial Church, where the service will be held
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President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.
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The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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September-October 2016
Letters
Readers comment on Harvard and slavery, scientists and sex, final clubs, Seamus Heaney, and more
President Faust on Harvard Divinity School's bicentennial
How Harvard might better explain itself to faculty, friends, and the world at large
A distinctive Harvard Magazine voice remembered
Welcoming an accomplished new editorial colleague
The College Pump
Robert M. Pennoyer, age 19, on duty in 1944
Photograph courtesy of Robert M. Pennoyer
A member of the class of 1946 on the horrors, and humor, of World War II.
Treasure
Common thistle (Cirsium vulgare) found in an open pasture in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, in 1921
Image courtesy of the Harvard University Herbaria
Digitized herbaria collections data allow researchers to predict future plant ranges.
In this Issue
Illustration by Andrew MacGregor
Colson Whitehead ’91 plays for higher stakes in his new novel.
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz
Making the case for charter schools and other choice options to boost educational performance
George Bucknam Dorr on the Beachcroft Path on Huguenot Head
Photograph courtesy of Friends of Acadia and the National Park Service and NPS/Archive
Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944
As Jerry Mitrovica demonstrates, the weight of ice sheets in polar regions can actually flatten the earth’s rocky mantle, altering the speed of the planet’s rotation and changing sea levels.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Connecting climate change to the planet’s shifting crust
Nancy Rosenblum in her Greenwich Village apartment building
Portrait by Robert Adam Mayer
Nancy Rosenblum studies neighbors and the power of proximity.
Letters
Readers comment on Harvard and slavery, scientists and sex, final clubs, Seamus Heaney, and more
President Faust on Harvard Divinity School's bicentennial
How Harvard might better explain itself to faculty, friends, and the world at large
A distinctive Harvard Magazine voice remembered
Welcoming an accomplished new editorial colleague
Right Now
Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian
Evolution shaped humans to rest—and to run only when absolutely necessary.
A 3-D printer “draws” a coiled antenna in the air. What allows the printer to work this way is a laser that hardens an “ink” of silver nanoparticles as they emerge from the nozzle.
Image courtesy of Mark Skylar-Scott
A new kind of 3-D printer forms wires in midair.
Anthony Jack is interested in diversity among low-income students.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Sociologist Anthony Jack studies two types of low-income students.
Harvard Squared
The Saugus Iron Works sits on a tidal basin about a 10-minute drive off Interstate 95.
Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service
The Saugus Iron Works highlights early U.S. industrial history
Workers flood the cranberry bog, then collect and bag the berries that float to the top.
Photograph by Andrew W. Griffith/A.D. Maekpeace Company
Learn how New England’s iconic berries are cultivated at this annual event.
Harold Edgerton captured the interface between art and science, as in his photograph of a bullet passing through an apple.
Image courtesy of the Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum highlights “Science in Motion” in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Figureheads, like this 1970s reproduction, often adorned fire stations in the 1800s.
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Children and adults alike are drawn to this eclectic array of firefighting artifacts.
Sevan’s Murat and Nuran Chavushian hold up a batch of feta.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Ethnic markets serve up a world of food.
John Harvard's Journal
Assembling the Harvard Life Lab, on Western Avenue, at the edge of the Business School campus
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard's sweeping building boom.
Michael Brenner
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Applied mathematician Michael Brenner on not knowing anything
An existing frame home begins its transformation into the new Winthrop House faculty dean’s residence.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Three projects in, some physical and financial assessments
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Douglas Elmendorf
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New HKS dean Douglas Elmendorf talks progressive policy and economics.
“P” with Mary surrounded by 12 stars, from Richard de Saint-Laurent, De laudibus beatae Mariae virginis, late 1200s
Courtesy of Wellesley College
Little-known treasures from Houghton Library and other collections
Advocate editors playing to the camera circa 1900-1910
Courtesy of Harvard University Archives
The Harvard Advocate turns 150.
Chao Center
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Chao Center, a Law School alumnus as vice-presidential nominee, sexual-assault lexicon, Gen Ed transition, and more
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JB
Continuing challenges to undergraduate-admissions policies, and diversifying faculties
The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2016-2017 academic year will be Matthew Browne ’17 and Lily Scherlis ’18.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The magazine's Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective.
Anne Cheng
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Anne Cheng anchors Harvard's new golf prowess.
Montage
Could Science Prove There’s a God? (2014) is part of artist Judith Brodsky's ongoing series about science and philosophy, The Twenty Most Important Scientific Questions of the 21st Century.
Image courtesy of Judith Brodsky
From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”
Composer Nicholas Britell has written scores for films including Moonlight, A Tale of Love and Darkness, and The Seventh Fire. He is also a pianist and producer (most recently of Whiplash, by Damien Chazelle ’07).
Courtesy of Nicholas Britell
A film composer's career, from annotating Sneakers to doing “archaeology” for 12 Years a Slave
Autumn harvest: a honeybee on Solidago gigantea (goldenrod)
Photograph by Helga R. Heilmann
Thomas D. Seeley on the craft and science of bee hunting
Melanerpes lewis, Meriwether Lewis’s woodpecker, in the MCZ’s collections
Photograph by Mark Sloan/Courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology/Harvard University
Recent books with Harvard connections
Joseph Finder at the Boston Athenaeum, a membership library. The private investigator hero of his Nick Heller series is also based in the city, where Finder lives with his family.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Joseph Finder makes technology the texture of his new thriller, Guilty Minds.
Illustration by James Steinberg
A focused briefing on degree-attainment, democracy, and economic opportunity
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Posing with a tool of the trade, Alcorn can revel in her job’s reflection of film noir.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Boston-based private investigator Sarah Alcorn is “a bit of an oddball in this business.”
Martin J. Grasso Jr.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
President Martin J. Grasso boosts alumni volunteerism.
The Harvard Club of Boston’s renovated Harvard Hall foyer
Photograph by Richard Mandelkorn/The Harvard Club of Boston
The Harvard Club of Boston’s makeover, and new president
(From left) Annalee Perez ’17 and Brittany Wang ’17
Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
The Aloian Memorial Scholars contribute to House life.
Harvard Alumni Association awards honor volunteer service to the University.
Paul Zeitz visiting with Proof School students last fall
A private San Francisco middle school and high school nurture a passion for numbers.
The College Pump
Robert M. Pennoyer, age 19, on duty in 1944
Photograph courtesy of Robert M. Pennoyer
A member of the class of 1946 on the horrors, and humor, of World War II.
Treasure
Common thistle (Cirsium vulgare) found in an open pasture in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, in 1921
Image courtesy of the Harvard University Herbaria
Digitized herbaria collections data allow researchers to predict future plant ranges.