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Harvard prepares for yet another pandemic-influenced spring term.
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Harvard prepares for a pandemic-influenced spring term.
Srikant M. Datar, HBS’s eleventh dean
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Dean Datar on the future of business and society in a digital era
Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
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Conceptual illustration of neural networks in the human brain.
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Harvard researchers uncover powerful association between EBV and MS, raising hopes for prevention or a cure.
Illustration by Blair Kelly
High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk
Illustration by Eva Vazquez
Inequities threaten the long-term health of cities
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Noah Kirkwood
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In an injury-filled season, Harvard’s best player assumes a new role.
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner
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The parade, roasts, and performances return to Harvard Square.
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Illustration by Angelo Dolojan
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
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Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
A “pause” after winning four seats in recent elections
Drew Faust chaired the committee on principles for de- or renaming.
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Faust-led committee addresses building and professorship naming decisions “profoundly antithetical” to present values.
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Wellness and physical fitness destinations in the Cambridge area and beyond
The impressive two-tiered modern interior of the Armenian Museum of America
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A museum reflects an ancient civilization and the modern global diaspora.
View of the exhibit “Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping”
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Candice Lin’s otherworldly refuge
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Robert E. Lee in repose at Washington & Lee University
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How alumni shaped the General’s post-war reputation.
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Rudy Ruiz
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Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
Graphic illustrations helped sensationalize the case.
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Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media
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Noah Kirkwood
Photograph by Gil Tabot
In an injury-filled season, Harvard’s best player assumes a new role.
Bulldog Backbreaker: Wideout Kym Wimberly hauls in Luke Emge’s third-down, last-seconds, no-timeouts pass to secure Harvard’s thrilling 31-27 victory in The Game.
Photograph by Nathan Klima
The Crimson's final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.
The Conquering Hero: Harvard quarterback Luke Emge was only 14-for-32 passing but was at his best at crunch time, leading the Crimson to their last-minute, go-ahead score.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonHarvard wins The Game in emphatic fashion.
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Robert E. Lee in repose at Washington & Lee University
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How alumni shaped the General’s post-war reputation.
Professors’ humble beginnings, concentration choices, and a mini history of Harvard and Radcliffe presidents
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Charles Duhigg unpacks how business and finance—and you—really work.
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March-April 2017
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston
In this Issue
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
Henry Knowles Beecher, 1950.
Photograph by Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
The flowers of Rafflesia arnoldii are the largest in the world.
Photograph by Jeremy Holden
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
Justice Stephen Breyer
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
Right Now
Illustration by Pete Ryan
Gidon Eshel explains the environmental, social, and political effects of food choices.
Illustration by Stuart Bradford
Scientists think they may have an answer.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Traditional methods of preventing suicide have been ineffective, says psychologist Matthew Nock.
Harvard Squared
Restorative scenes: Most Star Island visitors stay at the historic Oceanic House, overlooking lawns and the harbor.
Photograph by Sean D. Elliot
Wild beauty and meaningful retreats on New Hampshire’s Star Island
American Dream, by Sarah Thomas
Courtesy of World of WearableArt Limited
Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.
An iron lung, used to treat polio, that was manufactured by J.H. Emerson Co., in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/NPB
Artifacts used to fight American epidemics, at the Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Walnut Grille tends toward towering dishes and fanciful presentations.
Photograph courtesy of Walnut Grille
Expanding vegetarian dining options in Greater Boston
John Harvard's Journal
The right stuff: Freshman point guard Katie Benzan, shown shooting in the home opener against Maine, led the Harvard women’s basketball team in minutes played and points scored per game through January, helping to spark 16 consecutive wins—tying the longest such streak in Crimson basketball history and raising hopes for an Ivy League championship.
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Basketball teams pursue Ivy League tournament titles.
New leadership begins sweeping change, attempting to improve persistent underperformance.
On the agenda: challenges to endowments and philanthropy
Broadening the debate on Harvard’s single-gender social organizations
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scholar of race, justice, and public policy
Illustration by Mark Steele
A morgue for movies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
A change at Harvard University Press, and more
Illustration by Anthony Freda
The Undergraduate considers campus debate and action in a polarized era.
Martha Minow
Photograph by Ken Richardson
The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more
Ted Minnis is Harvard’s winningest water polo coach—his path to Blodgett Pool included a few detours and sharp turns.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Ted Minnis makes Harvard an East Coast power in a West Coast sport.
Harvard’s Ryan Donato rushes toward the net in the November game that broke Boston College’s win streak.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Hockey, squash, swimming and diving: winter sports in brief
Montage
Documentarian Kent Garrett ’63 returned to Harvard last fall for a screening of his work.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential
Archaic Paestum—the “beginning” of beauty
Photograph by iStock
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Elif Batuman
Photograph by Beowolf Sheehan
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
Before writing anything down, Robert Kyr composes his works—music and text—“internally,” he says, from start to finish.
Photograph by Kelly James Photography
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Windermere, 1821, by Joseph M.W. Turner, in the spirit of Wordsworth
Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Elizabeth Bishop: the poet at ease, in 1954
Photograph ©The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Alumni
Shannon Liss-Riordan
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.
The 2017 slates
Harvard celebrates its volunteer alumni leaders.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston