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esperanza spalding performing at a White House event
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Professor of practice cites misalignment with Harvard's priorities
The Center for Disease Control’s robust system for tracking the spread of COVID-19 variants show the rapid spread of BQ.1 and BQ1.1, both of which are resistant to the last remaining monoclonal antibody treatments currently available. This creates a new risk for immunocompromised individuals, including those undergoing certain treatments for cancer.
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Harvard experts on healthy holiday gatherings—and the risk of a “tripledemic”
Thomas J. Hollister, vice president for finance and CFO
Paige Brown, Courtesy Tufts Medical CenterVice president for finance to conclude service at end of academic year
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Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.
Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Hansjörg Wyss
Courtesy of The Wyss Foundation
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Melanie Wood, Danna Freedman, and Emily Wang
Photographs courtesy of MacArthur Foundation; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A mathematician, a chemist, and a professor of medicine who studies the health effects of incarceration
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
Photograph by Lydialyle Gibson/Harvard Magazine
Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
Harvard Business School
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Hansjörg Wyss
Courtesy of The Wyss Foundation
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Ben S. Bernanke
Photograph in the public domain
Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
Photograph by LEXPIX/iStock images
Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
Photograph by LEXPIX/iStock images
Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
Celeste Ng
Photograph by Kieran Kesner
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
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(1/5) DOG DAY AFTERNOON Yale's Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog wondered what the ruckus was all about.
Photographs by Julian Giordano/The Harvard Crimson
A tough finish to a quirky season
SPREADING THE WEALTH Enjoying one of the best days for a quarterback in Harvard annals, Charlie Dean (11) surveys the Penn defense. The Crimson senior signal-caller riddled the Quakers, completing 29 of 38 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns while connecting with nine receivers.
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Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!
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(1/4) CRUNCH TIME Harvard's Joe Young is converged upon by a beehive of Columbia tacklers. The Crimson senior wideout snared three passes, one for 22 yards.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonSloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.
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The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
Photograph by Jon Chase/HPAC
Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
George Reisner, 1924
Photograph courtesy of Peter Der Manuelian
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
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A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
Photograph by Larry Downing/Reuters
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September-October 2017
Letters
Readers comment further on “Fair Harvard,” teaching the liberal arts, celebrity and politics, the middle class, and more.
President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search
The College Pump
Memorial Hall burning in September 1956—with flames beyond the reach of firefighting apparatus
Photograph by William Simon
A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire
Treasure
The volume’s front cover features a needle-painted portrait of the young prince Charles Stuart.
Photographs by Jim Harrison/Object courtesy of the Houghton Library
Embroidery fit for a prince
In this Issue
Carl Thorne-Thomsen in high school (with fellow student-council member Linda Jones Docherty)
Photograph from Lake Forest High School 1964 Yearbook/Courtesy of Linda Docherty
Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967
To simply say that the White Cliffs of Dover are made of chalk would miss the point of Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World. The chalk giving the famous cliffs their white appearance was formed from the exoskeletons of plated marine microbes called coccolithophores.
All images from Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World, by Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter. Copyright ©2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
On Earth, microbes run the show.
Photograph by iStock Images
Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
Letters
Readers comment further on “Fair Harvard,” teaching the liberal arts, celebrity and politics, the middle class, and more.
President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search
Right Now
A surgical technique designed to preserve proprioceptive signals after amputation should allow patients to sense the location of their prostheses, feedback that is often compromised by convential surgery.
Image courtesy of Shriya Srinivasan
Improved surgical techniques enhance prosthetic function.
Illustration By Doug Panton
The combination of certain factors can determine whether a city is plagued with disease, or is a hub for innovation.
Harvard Squared
The village grew up around the Meeting House, built in 1792.
Photograph by Alamy Stock Images
The Canterbury Shakers’ enduring appeal
A view of the State House dome and downtown’s towers, from the Charles River
Courtesy of the Charles Riverboat Company
Boat tours of architectural gems
World’s End offers stunning views of Hingham Harbor…
Courtesy of the Trustees of Reservations
A day trip to Hingham
Branch Line, which pairs fresh fare with craft beers on tap, has transformed part of an historic building at the former Watertown Arsenal.
Photograph by Melissa Ostrow
Branch Line serves brasserie-style fare in an historic Watertown setting
John Harvard's Journal
Assembling the science and engineering complex in Allston (with work on the district energy plant distantly visible to the rear of the site)
Image from the SEAS Construction Cam
A campus construction program of unprecedented proportions
President Drew Faust
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
President Faust’s exit timetable, and the search for her successor
HarvardX project leader April Opoliner with Kolokotrones professor of biostatistics and epidemiology Miguel Hernán and teaching assistant Barbra Dickerman
Photograph by Stu Rosner
HarvardX transforms a popular course in epidemiology to serve a global audience.
Sunil Amrith
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The Bay of Bengal is central for this South Asia scholar.
A Harvard committee proposes eliminating unsanctioned student social organizations.
Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.
Illustration by Mark Steele
A Channel first, a voluntary U.S. history exam, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Harvard’s business and engineering faculties join forces on a new technology-design degree—before they co-locate in Allston.
George Andreou
Photograph by Michael Lionstar
New University Press director, new University Professor, changing Harvard Square, and more
Illustration by Rebecca Clarke
The Undergraduate contemplates cycles in college friendships.
Natasha Lasky and Tawanda Mulalu
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Tjerk van Herwaarden
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Under coach Tjerk van Herwaarden, Harvard field hockey ascends.
Montage
Though songwriter Dan Wilson mostly stays out of the spotlight these days…
Photograph by Devin Pedde
The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.
The young Rachel Carson (1940); Abraham Lincoln, wearied by the Civil War (1864); and the Endurance in the crushing grip of polar ice
From Left: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Library of Congress (2)
The Business School’s Nancy Koehn analyzes the personal stakes that propel leaders.
Ensemble members reminisce in Party People, about the Black Panthers and Young Lords.
Photograph by Jenny Graham
Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”
The artist as master colorist: Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat (Femme au Chapeau), 1905
Wikimedia Commons
John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more
The world’s most famous fruit-plucking: detail from Hugo van der Goes, The Fall (after 1479)
Painting detail from Bridgeman Images
Stephen Greenblatt explores the myths and meanings of Adam and Eve.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
James Coe’s backyard and frog pond are worthy of their own plein air paintings.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley
Susan Morris Novick
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s new alumni leader touts its global reach.
The College Pump
Memorial Hall burning in September 1956—with flames beyond the reach of firefighting apparatus
Photograph by William Simon
A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire
Treasure
The volume’s front cover features a needle-painted portrait of the young prince Charles Stuart.
Photographs by Jim Harrison/Object courtesy of the Houghton Library
Embroidery fit for a prince