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Smith Campus Center, one of the tangible results of The Harvard Campaign
Photograph by Jim HarrisonThe University reveals the results for its record-setting fund drive.
H. Luke Shaefer directs the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions—now partnering with Harvard to address economic mobility in Detroit.
Photograph courtesy of Poverty Solutions/University of MichiganJoint efforts aim at alleviating poverty and fighting the opioid epidemic.
From left, Presidents M. Roy Wilson, M.D. ’80, of Wayne State University and Lawrence S. Bacow of Harvard and Mary Kramer, director of the economic-development forum, speaking on higher education in Detroit on September 14.
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsPresident Bacow listens (and builds partnerships) in Michigan.
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Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
Illustration by Martin Hargreaves
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
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Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine Zhang
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The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Arguably the Ivy League’s most dangerous offensive weapon, the Crimson’s return man and wideout Justice Shelton-Mosley ‘19 is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Sofia Cigarroa Kennedy and KeeHup Arie Yong
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Two seniors who help make Houses into homes
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
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Photograph courtesy of Oldways, www.oldwayspt.org
Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston
Every human-powered vehicle must stand the test of traveling on asphalt, through mud, and into the Merrimack River.
Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
Diners, bar-loungers, and chefs share one big room at Comedor.
Photograph courtesy of Comedor
An intimate place for Chilean-American food in Newton
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At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
(Click to see full image) “Stop Police Killings, Selma, 1965,” by Steve Schapiro
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Aquisition of Photographs. 2018.115A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences
Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
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Turnover: Having intercepted a Brown pass, Harvard senior defensive back Wesley Ogsbury (1) wends his way upfield on a 21-yard return that led to a Crimson field goal.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic CommunicationsAn unexpectedly tough win in Providence
We have handoff: After receiving the ball from quarterback and classmate Jake Smith, Harvard sophomore running back Aaron Shampklin scanned the line for an opening—the kind that he ran through all afternoon.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic CommunicationsA strong start, and for Crimson running back Aaron Shampklin, a breakout day
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
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Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
Poster courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
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The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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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