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Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
The Federal Reserve Building, where Harvard Management Company’s offices are located
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Inflation, recession, and the outlook for Harvard Management Company
Loeb House, where the governing boards convene and the presidential search is conducted
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The third advisory committee is formed, joining faculty and staff cohorts.
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Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
More than 5,000 years ago, Caucasus hunter-gatherers from the highlands between the Black and Caspian Seas traveled west to Anatolia and north to the steppe, splitting their Proto-Indo-European language into two branches. From the steppe, their Yamnaya horse-herder descendants spread their language and genes into daughter languages and cultures across Eurasia. Border colors indicate the geographic origins of five source populations before their migrations (shown by correspondingly colored arrows), while the pie charts show the post-migration admixtures in these regions.
Figure reprinted with permission from I. Lazaridis et al., Science 377:939(2022).
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.
The rewilded planter in front of Harvard's Museum of Natural History
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Bringing native plant species back to campus.
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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.
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
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An athlete contends with injury and identity.
Brooks Newmark ’80 with an elderly Ukrainian woman
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Brooks Newmark ’80 evacuates women, children, and the elderly with his “Dunkirk-like fleet” of humanitarian buses.
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Opportunities for discovery this fall
Birches Over Pine (1966)
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
The music center, sited on a bucolic hill in Groton
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A new regional music center opens in Groton, Massachusetts.
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The commercial "enterprise research campus" will begin rising on the gray parcel at the center, above—but Harvard's broader strategy is not widley known.
Image from Google EarthThe Corporation’s role in communicating University strategies—and the magazine’s 125th
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Translator William Tamplin joined the Marine Corps earlier this year.
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William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20, on the lyricism and secrecy of an Arabic literary pioneer
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The art of conserving an historic garden at Dumbarton Oaks
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(1/4) OPENING STRETCH. Sophomore backup quarterback Charles DiPrima and his mates got limbered up for the 148th season of Harvard football.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman Photography/courtesy of Harvard Athletic CommunicationsOvertime theatrics, as the Crimson defense and running back Aidan Borguet pull one out.
Breakout season: All eyes will be on the Crimson's Aidan Borguet (21 in white, breaking loose against Columbia) as he steps into the lead back role. As a sophomore in 2021, Borguet was named second-team All-Ivy.
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Harvard Magazine’s gridiron guru on the Crimson’s 148th season
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Field hockey goalie Ellie Shahbo’s quiet dominance
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Prince Charles with Francis H. Burr at the 350th
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The Prince of Wales’s star turn at Harvard’s 350th anniversary gala, in 1986
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This portrait of Hunt Logan by the Parisian-trained, African-American painter William Edouard Scott, was begun in 1915 while he was in residence at Tuskegee and completed at her daughter’s direction in 1918.
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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
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Artifacts used to fight American epidemics, at the Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Walnut Grille tends toward towering dishes and fanciful presentations.
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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.
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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
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Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Elif Batuman
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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