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Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School.
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
From the potentialenergycoalition.org website
A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolA Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
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Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
Photograph by Jeffrey Sturges
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
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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