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Clockwise from top left: Pardis Sabeti, Dan Barouch, Paul Ridker, David Liu, Marc Lipsitch
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More than a dozen Harvard faculty members are honored.
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Harvard reports lower revenues and a loss for the year, as the pandemic’s sweeping effects begin to take hold.
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Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
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Clockwise from top left: Pardis Sabeti, Dan Barouch, Paul Ridker, David Liu, Marc Lipsitch
Image collage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine.
More than a dozen Harvard faculty members are honored.
Photograph by Fabrizio Amoroso/Aperture
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
Fine particle pollution, like that generated by coal-burning power plants, has been linked to increases in neurological disease.
Photograph by Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution.
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Professor of government Dustin Tingley (bottom right), faculty director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduces HILT conference panelists (clockwise from top left): Sherri Ann Charleston, Anthony Jack, María Luisa Parra, and Clint Smith.
Screen capture by Harvard Magazine/LGThe Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference considers classroom inclusion and equity.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Harvard professional schools continue (mostly) online learning during the next semester—and other indicators for 2021.
Michael Fabiano, A.L.M. ’16, in the AP newsroom.
Photo courtesy of the AP
The AP’s Michael Fabiano on the 2020 election
Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
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Colorful bow ties from The Andover Shop
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Harvard Square venues offer warmth, cheer, and appetizing fare.
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
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Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Photograph by Fabrizio Amoroso/Aperture
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.
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In 2012, Colton Chapple ’13 threw five touchdowns in Harvard's 39-34 loss to Princeton. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
An all-time performance in an all-time loss
Charles Brickley
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A Harvard great with an all-time boot
Eighteen seasons after his final reception for the Crimson, Morris still has a firm hold on almost every significant Harvard pass-catching record. Photograph by Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images
2000-02: a Crimson Wide Receiver's Fab Four
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Master Yon Lee leads a beginner tai chi course on the MAC Quad.
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The healing of Master Yon Lee
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A Civil War image and an Empire State Building homage
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Sellers at the John Brown Fort, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
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Harvesting History
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
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July-August 2017
Letters
Readers comment on linguistics and sign language, academic class gaps, “Fair Harvard,” final clubs, and more.
President Drew Faust on scientific research and federal funding
The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science
The College Pump
The Radcliffe Institute’s garden oasis
Photograph by Thomas Earle/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
“Fair Harvard,” liberal arts Soviet-style, campus oases, and more
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Art Museums; ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A collection of stunning Jun ceramics displayed—and analyzed
In this Issue
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A 1948 record from Frederick C. Packard’s Harvard Vocarium label, T. S. Eliot: Reading His Own Poetry, on a turntable in a console designed by Alvar Aalto and engineer Jack L. Weisman.Objects courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room. Photographs by Stu Rosner
In the Woodberry Poetry Room, a landmark audio collection waits to be heard.
Blanche Ames
Photograph courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Brief life of an intrepid botanical illustrator: 1878-1969
Andrew LeClerc in his home garden
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.
Yale-NUS, an ambitious Singapore-based experiment in liberal arts, is built around this central courtyard.
Photograph courtesy of Yale-NUS
Yale-NUS, Nicholas Lemann, and Minerva remodel liberal arts for the twenty-first century.
Letters
Readers comment on linguistics and sign language, academic class gaps, “Fair Harvard,” final clubs, and more.
President Drew Faust on scientific research and federal funding
The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science
Right Now
Illustration by Jungyeon Roh
Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle
Illustration by John Holcroft
Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.
Faced with many candidates from the same party, as in the 2016 Republican primary, voters tend to choose celebrities.
Photograph by Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
Why people vote for celebrities—even when they say they don’t want to.
Harvard Squared
Lone paddlers take in the sunset
Photograph courtesy of UMass Lowell Kayak Center
Paddling the Merrimack in Lowell and Lawrence
End of the Line, Cleveland Circle (2012), by Kate Sullivan
Courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum
A Boston Athenaeum print exhibit reveals “a distinctive sense of place.”
A summer exhibit at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (above) highlights abstract art…
Photograph courtesy of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln offers rich history, nature trails, local food, and art.
Dusk dining at Cantina 229, in New Marlboro (Berkshires)
Photograph courtesy of Cantina 229
Massachusetts restaurants in lush country settings
John Harvard's Journal
Haiyang Zhao, LL.M. ’17, adjusts a rain poncho from the Law School.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s wet 366th Commencement proved the occasion for thoughtful conversations about social media, inclusion, and the political landscape.
The 2017 honorands
Mark Zuckerberg
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Words of wisdom from Joe Biden, Drew Faust, Mark Zuckerberg, student speakers, and more
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Regalia update, alumni who serve alma mater, family ties, notable guests, and more features from the festival rites
The status of a contested election
Click to see full graphic: An evolving, and increasingly tenured, professoriate emerges from these data published by the office of the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. “URM” means underrepresented minority. More data and details appear at faculty.harvard.edu.
Documenting a decade of gradual evolution in the professoriate
Illustration by Mark Steele
The 1932 solar eclipse, the Naval Training School, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Scott A. Abell and Tracy P. Palandjian
Photographs courtesy of Scott A. Abell and Tracy P. Palandjian
New Board of Overseers leaders, top teachers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more
The vexatious business of defining a gen-ed course in quantitative literacy
The College’s final-club sanctions: an update
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New Law School dean, new House leaders, Harvard’s top salaries, and more
From HarvardX to the classroom, Harvard Medical teaching online, and more
Meme by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard Magazine
The Undergraduate dives into meme culture.
Jade Miller
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communicaitons
Track and field, golf, crew, tennis
Montage
Jaunts to Nashville and Italy aside, Master of None stays, and is filmed, in New York City. On set in the subway, castmates Lena Waithe (left) and James Ciccone confer with co-creators Aziz Ansari and Yang.
Photograph by KC Bailey/Universal Television/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Alan Yang serves up warm, epicurean comedy.
Tahmima Anam
Photograph courtesy of Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam’s Bengal trilogy finds a resting place.
Stephen Peabody, 1809, by John Johnston
Photograph by American Antiquarian Society
The diary of a “unexceptional collegian”—attending class, or not
Where the coastal “professional-managerial elite” are not: view of a closed coal facility from Green Mount Cemetery, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
Photograph by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
A review of Joan Williams’s powerful book on the resentments reshaping American politics
Children’s grotto cave at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas
Images from The Magic of Children’s Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design, by Lolly Tai. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2017 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.
Beach reading, the West, segregation, gardening with children, and more
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Debbie Bial
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Harvard alumna Debbie Bial's Posse Foundation and a “new national leadership pipeline”
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorees (from left) Russell A. Mittermeier, Sarah P. Morris, Thomas F. Pettigrew, and Richard Sennett
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo/Courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study
Honorees include an architect, athletics enthusiast, and longtime University administrator.
Leon Starr and Rhoda Lesser Diamond brave the inclement weather on Commencement Day.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The oldest graduates at Commencement
The annual election results
Four from the class of 2017 are off to the other Cambridge.
The College Pump
The Radcliffe Institute’s garden oasis
Photograph by Thomas Earle/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
“Fair Harvard,” liberal arts Soviet-style, campus oases, and more
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Art Museums; ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A collection of stunning Jun ceramics displayed—and analyzed