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Dean Claudine Gay on the Native American hair clippings in Harvard’s holdings
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A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
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The project will also include Harvard housing.
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Illustration by Nathan Daniels
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
Ieva Jusionyte spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on the effect of American firearms on Mexican society.
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On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.
Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
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Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
Harvard Business School
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Sarah Karmon, new HAA executive director
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An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
Hansjörg Wyss
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The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Ben S. Bernanke
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Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
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A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
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Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
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The project will also include Harvard housing.
Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
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Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
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(1/5) DOG DAY AFTERNOON Yale's Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog wondered what the ruckus was all about.
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A tough finish to a quirky season
SPREADING THE WEALTH Enjoying one of the best days for a quarterback in Harvard annals, Charlie Dean (11) surveys the Penn defense. The Crimson senior signal-caller riddled the Quakers, completing 29 of 38 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns while connecting with nine receivers.
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Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!
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(1/4) CRUNCH TIME Harvard's Joe Young is converged upon by a beehive of Columbia tacklers. The Crimson senior wideout snared three passes, one for 22 yards.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonSloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.
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The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
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Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
George Reisner, 1924
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Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
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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
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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