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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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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
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“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
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Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
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Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
Lawrence S. Bacow
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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Though WHRB had to initiate its newest members over Zoom, each student picked a traditional five-character radio name.
Extracurriculars cope despite COVID-19.
Rachel Gable
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Rachel Gable’s research on helping first-generation and low-income students succeed at elite colleges
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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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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
The Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School
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“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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Berkshire East offers majestic views of the Deerfield River Valley. (1 of 8)Photograph courtesy of Berkshire East and Tino Specht
Skiing, snow tubing, and more in Western Massachusetts
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(1 of 2) Cha Yen Thai Cookersy serves fresh fare like the tangy pork larb with red onions and basil.Photograph courtesy of Cha Yen Thai Cookery
Cha Yen Thai Cookery
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As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
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A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
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TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
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(1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65Photograph courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
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An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
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David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
Crimson receiver and returner Andrew Fischer breaks loose for a 58-yard run in the second quarter—one of several huge plays on the day.
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A sensational performance leads Harvard over Yale.
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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.
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An alumna looks back.
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The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
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November-December 2016
Letters
Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories
President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus
When it pays to rethink a policy
The College Pump
Defense secretary Robert McNamara arguing with Harvard protesters in 1966
Photograph by Julian Levy
McNamara on campus, the “Cambridge conceit,” and a lyric puzzle
Treasure
In this Issue
Quan Le ’15 guides a biology lesson.
Photograph by Jill Anderson/Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.
This portrait of Edward Holyoke, Harvard’s ninth president, painted ca. 1759-1761, was Copley’s first commission from the College.
Harvard University Portrait Collection (H6); photograph by Harvard Art Museums Imaging Department/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
When the College commissioned Copley
Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian
Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care
The poet as French legionnaire in 1916
Photograph: HUD 3567.219.2 no. 296, Harvard University Archives
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
A death-row inmate at San Quentin; Californians vote to end or keep the death penalty this November.
Photograph by Eric Risberg/Associated Press
Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.
Letters
Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories
President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus
When it pays to rethink a policy
Right Now
Illustration by Jeanine Murch
Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.
Illustration by James O’Brien
New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.
Harvard Squared
In the past, Moby-Dick marathon-readers gathered, fittingly, beneath whale bones to enjoy the epic tale.
Photograph courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Wreath-making activities with farm co-founder Jean Miner White (at right)
Photograph courtesy of Holly Hill Farm
Holly Hill Farm’s winter fair in Cohasset, Massachusetts
The Blue Hills Reservation offers treks, along with cross-country and downhill skiing.
Photograph by Lorna Ruby
Appalachian Mountain Club’s winter hiking in the Blue Hills
Shumachine, by “Steampunk guru” and guest curator Bruce Rosenbaum
Photograph by Matt Norris Photography/www.MGNorris.com
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
John Harvard's Journal
Photograph by Jim Harrison
At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.
Investment losses and distributions for the budget reduce the assets by $1.9 billion.
Winthrop House is being renovated and enlarged.
Photograph by kris snibbe/hpac
Affording House renewal
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more
Portrait of John Adams by Benjamin Blyth, ca. 1766
Courtesy of the Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
What he learned and what he made of it
Laura Levis
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The untimely death of a former colleague
George Q. Daley
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Medical School dean, humanities and sciences honorands, and an app for thriving at Harvard
Illustration by Francis Livingston
Learning to negotiate the backyard and the divine
New quarterback Joe Viviano ’17 unfurled passes with force and finesse, even as defenses had to account for his dangerous running ability. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
A successful beginning of the football season
Kathy Delaney-Smith, the winningest coach in Ivy League basketball
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith lives up to, and inspires, with her motto.
Lavietes-to-be: the renovated entry façade, as it will appear by the beginning of the 2017-2018 season
rendering courtesy of Bruner/Cott & Associates, Inc.
Upgrading a venerable basketball arena
Montage
Working on his 2012 short film, Reckart hangs a puppet upside down from the set’s ceiling. “Head over Heels” took a 40-member crew some 15 months to make.
Photograph courtesy of Timothy Reckart
The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
wikipedia
Crowd painting that attracts crowds.
Jean Valentine
Photograph by Tyler Flynn Dorholt
Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship
A border, defended: Francesco di Giorgio’s elegant hilltop fortress of San Leo, Marche, Italy, ca. 1480
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Recent books with Harvard connections
In 2012, Ken Liu’s short story “The Paper Menagerie” swept science fiction’s highest honors: the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. He has won the Hugo as well for his translations of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (the first translated novel to win), and Hao Jingfang’s short story “Folding Beijing.”
Photograph by Lisa Tang Liu
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
James Kloppenberg conveys the evolution of democracy from early theorists through Tocqueville’s celebration, written some years before this beatific electoral scene, The Verdict of the People (1854-55), by George Caleb Bingham.
Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Turntables, headphones, a mixer, and his eclectic music collection prevail in Jace Clayton’s home “office.”
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer; styling by Prellezo
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures
Seven alumni are honored for volunteer College admissions work.
The College Pump
Defense secretary Robert McNamara arguing with Harvard protesters in 1966
Photograph by Julian Levy
McNamara on campus, the “Cambridge conceit,” and a lyric puzzle