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What the greenway in the Enterprise Research Campus might look like (for illustrative purposes only).
Credit: Tishman Speyer and SCAPE from the DPIR
Tishman Speyer details its Allston plans.
Michael Porter
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Michael Porter on the new business agenda
Soon visitors will return to the arcade overlooking the museums' Calderwood Courtyard.
Photo: Matthew Montieth; © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
The musems will welcome students back on September 1, and the public on September 4.
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Michael Porter
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Michael Porter on the new business agenda
Tiya Miles (top) and Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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Tiya Miles traces a mother and daughter’s story through a cotton sack.
Some patients experience lingering and debilitating symptoms after COVID-19.
Art by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash
Some patients experience lingering and debilitating symptoms after COVID-19.
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Illustration by Mike Austin
Why do so many Harvard students start clubs, instead of joining them?
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From left: Paul Fishman, Harry Litman, Amy Jeffress, and Jamie Gorelick
Photographs courtesy of Harry Litman; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Former U.S. attorney Harry P. Litman ’80 and guests’ lively take on legal and political issues.
Emily Cole Groden holds a batch of Evergreen waffles.
Emily Cole Groden’s quest for nutritious frozen waffles
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Where to explore, relax, and renew this season, from the Berkshires to the beach
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(1 of 3) Ship America on the Grand Banks, circa 1800, by Michele Felice Cornè
©2014 Peabody Essex Museum
From oceanic voyages to romping in the waves, a new exhibit explores relationships to water.
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(1 of 3) An aerial view of downtown New Bedford highlights historic buildings, which include the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and its cupola.
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Exploring the coastal fishing hub’s history, architecture, parks, and arts scene
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Michael Porter
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Michael Porter on the new business agenda
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on exploring better work-life balance after the pandemic
A standard-setter retires—plus U.S. presidential debates, Overseer elections, admissions biases
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Tiya Miles (top) and Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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Tiya Miles traces a mother and daughter’s story through a cotton sack.
Soon visitors will return to the arcade overlooking the museums' Calderwood Courtyard.
Photo: Matthew Montieth; © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
The musems will welcome students back on September 1, and the public on September 4.
The cast of The Hot Wing King
Photograph by Monique Carbon.
The Hot Wing King wins the 2021 prize for drama.
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Stephen Bourguet
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Graduate student Stephen Bourguet has set his sights on running a personal best at the Boston Marathon in October.
Gabby Thomas celebrates after winning the final in the women's 200-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Eugene, Ore.
Photograph by AP Photo/Ashley Landis
Thomas becomes the second-fastest woman ever in the 200-meter dash.
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Sidney Verba
Photograph by Justin Ide/HPAC
Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives
Ruth J. Simmons, the guest speaker
Screenshot by Harvard MagazineThe Morning Exercises—further adapted for the era of COVID and streaming—come with strong messages about racial justice.
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offices, where faculty meetings are held
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Honors teaching excellence, and the memory of Nathan Glazer, in last regular meeting of the academic year
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Massachusetts Horticultural Society renews its mission.
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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
Please see image galleries below for information about these objects and more
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
Photograph courtesy of Facebook
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.