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Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
Photograph by Harvard MagazineEight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, stage center at Sanders Theatre, congratulate, thank, and celebrate the performers at the Thursday evening inaugural concert and performances.
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Students, faculty members, and visiting artists perform music, song, drama, and even a work of visual art in real time.
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Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
Photograph by Harvard MagazineEight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
Illustration by Jim Frazier
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
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Richard Montañez
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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
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Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
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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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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Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston
Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
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“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
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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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Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
Photograph by Harvard MagazineEight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, stage center at Sanders Theatre, congratulate, thank, and celebrate the performers at the Thursday evening inaugural concert and performances.
Photograph by JSR/Harvard Magazine
Students, faculty members, and visiting artists perform music, song, drama, and even a work of visual art in real time.
Autumn (…Nothing Personal)’s benches and polycarbonate tubes form three concentric circles.
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard Magazine
An installation in Harvard Yard creates space to reflect on identity, culture, and visibility.
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One hand, two points: Tight end Adam West fended off Holy Cross’s Cullen Honohan with his right hand and caught the ball with his left for a conversion catch that made the list of Top 10 plays on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA loss turns into a win—just in the kick of time.
Crimson streak: Aaron Shampklin sails past Cornell defenders on a 47-yard touchdown jaunt that gave the Crimson a 7-0 lead. The sophomore sensation finished with a career-high 191 yards.
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A galling defeat
On tippytoes: Harvard’s Justice Shelton-Mosley performs a sideline balancing act after one of his game-high 10 catches. The senior wideout moved into third place on the career receptions list.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA quick and aggressive opponent makes the Crimson look sluggish.
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Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
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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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September-October 2018
(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
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Boosting the game, and The Game
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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May-June 2017
Letters
Readers comment on Houghton Library, coddled campuses, labor law, and more.
President Faust on the value of Harvard’s non-degree programs
A state’s pension-plan problems highlight the endowment challenge to realizing Harvard’s goals.
The College Pump
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Illustration by Michael Witte
Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.
In this Issue
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The chasm between elite academia and working-class Americans—and how to bridge it
A portrait of Yellow Wolf circa 1909
Photograph from The Library of Congress
Brief life of a Native American witness to history: c. 1855-1935
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Recreating the Philosophy Chamber
Kathryn Davidson discusses her research
Photograph by Jim Harrison
How linguists use sign languages to understand universal grammar
Letters
Readers comment on Houghton Library, coddled campuses, labor law, and more.
President Faust on the value of Harvard’s non-degree programs
A state’s pension-plan problems highlight the endowment challenge to realizing Harvard’s goals.
Right Now
Illustration by Whooli Chen
Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.
Illustration by Jude Buffum
Patterns of gene expression that appear to be inherited from one generation to the next are instead explained by in-utero exposures.
Illustration by Paul Lachine
Do workplace environments contribute to poor health for employees?
Harvard Squared
The Asa Gray Garden honors the Harvard botanist
Courtesy of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Springtime at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Steampunk style merges “neo-Victorian fashion with retro-futuristic technology.”
Photograph by Bobbi Lane
Steampunk Festival celebrates art and history in Waltham, Massachusetts
Barry Van Dusen’s barn swallow (nesting at Stone Barn Farm)
Courtesy of Barry Van Dusen
A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum
The Brookline birthplace of John F. Kennedy
Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service, John F. Kennedy National Historic Site
Centennial celebrations for John F. Kennedy in Brookline
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Flour’s baked treats
Photograph by Kristin Tieg/Flour
Harvard Square’s caffeine and calories—galore!
John Harvard's Journal
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Photograph by Jim Harrison
The Charles River, lit
The College’s social-club sanctions remain highly controversial.
Stephan Magro
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A miracle-working Commencement director
Still more construction projects on tap
Financial pressures force the faculty to trim doctoral admissions.
The Business School dean is bullish on engineering and data-science collaborations, and online learning.
Online learning, evolving at Harvard and beyond, attracts critical analysis.
David Parkes and Francesca Dominici, co-directors of Harvard’s new data-science initiative
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC
Harvard outlines steps toward a data-science institute in Allston.
Illustration by Mark Steele
An elephant race, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Maya Jasanoff (see “Writers’ Rewards,” below)
Photography by Rose Lincoln/HPAC
Dunster departure, graduate-school deans, faculty writing-prize winners, and more
Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg drops in, Justice Scalia’s papers, dental-school milestone, and more
Illustration by Daniel Baxter
The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process.
Far from Missouri: Nomin-Erdene Jagdagdorj on the choppy, cold Charles with skipper Nicholas Karnovsky ’19
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Harvard sailor, a long way from landlocked Mongolia and Missouri
Katie Benzan ’20 was a first-team All-Ivy honoree and led the team in scoring (13.4 points per game) and assists (4.2 assists per game).
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Seesaw seasons for the basketball teams
In the momentum-building Beanpot victory: Crimson forward Alexander Kerfoot skates against Boston University.
Photograph by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Strong seasons in hockey, fencing, and swimming
Montage
Choreographer Claudia Schreier, in rehearsal
Photograph by Rosalie O’Connor
A choreographer's career, taking shape
Willa Cather, finance expert
Photograph courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society
A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.
Justin Lee
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Justin Lee's essential, “invisible,” work at the Harvard Art Museums
The Vineyard’s south shore, from the Wequobsque Cliffs to Lucy Vincent Beach: inviting—and endangered
Photograph by David R. Foster
A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections
A Conservative Party poster, circa 1900, the year the precursor of the Labour Party first participated in a general election
Poster from Getty Images
Scholarly lessons from Europe prove pertinent today.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
James Bundy, on the Assassins set
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A look at James Bundy ’81, dean of the Yale School of Drama
Overseers and HAA director candidates
The College Pump
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Illustration by Michael Witte
Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.