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A screen shot from the closing moments of the 2020 virtual degree-granting ceremony (a technologically enabled singing of “Fair Harvard”)—an exercise now being replicated in some form for a second consecutive pandemic spring
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The 370th degree-conferral will be online for the second consecutive year—with Ruth Simmons as guest speaker.
Kate Murtagh, chief compliance officer and managing director of sustainable investing at Harvard Management Company
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University.
Harvard Management Company issues its first report on the “net-zero” greenhouse-gas emissions goal.
As expected, the anti-affirmative-action advocate appeals after losing in lower court rounds.
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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
Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer’s proposed massing and configuration of buildings for the first phase of construction on the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
From Tishman Speyer's Project Notification Form filing.
Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
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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
Tucson, Arizona
Photograph by Sean Pavone/istock
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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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
Bryant at work, captured in an undated photograph.
Image courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology/Harvard University
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
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(1of 4) Details from The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo’s ceilingPhotograph © Vatican Museum
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
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From the filmA short list of fine
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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
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“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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From the filmA short list of fine
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Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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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.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
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3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
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January-February 2018
Letters
Readers comment on unequal university resources, educational effectiveness, final clubs, and first-generation students
President Drew Faust on the enduring struggle to assure access to education.
Thoughts on the coming reconstruction of Harvard Square—and the University’s front door
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
The Arnold Arboretum’s Michael Dosmann with a Rodgersia leaf and plumes of Astilbe grandis
Photograph by Jonathan Shaw
The hunt for rare plants in China
Mercer and his beloved dog, Rollo
Courtesy of the Mercer Museum & Library
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
Fred Moten
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Norbert “Nubbins” Wiener, shown here in boyhood, was 14 when he matriculated at Harvard in 1909.
Photograph courtesy of the MIT Museum
Parents and superkids, then and now
Letters
Readers comment on unequal university resources, educational effectiveness, final clubs, and first-generation students
President Drew Faust on the enduring struggle to assure access to education.
Thoughts on the coming reconstruction of Harvard Square—and the University’s front door
Right Now
Illustration by Sam Ward
The United States is finally in a position of energy dominance, but its ability to harness this boom is fraught with challenges.
An osteoarthritic knee, the polished femur clearly visible, from a 600-year-old skeleton housed in the Peabody Museum.
Photograph by Jim Harrison/©2018 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM# 968-10-40/N9174.0
Neither increased obesity nor longevity explains the doubling of knee osteoarthritis since World War II.
Illustration by Øivind Hovland
An increasing consolidation of ownership in health care
Harvard Squared
Michael Frank and Louise Sacco with the stylish doggie stars of Blue Tango (acquired from an Indiana thrift shop) at the Somerville museum.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”
Photograph courtesy of the ART
HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
A scene from Newport’s dramatic Cliff Walk
Photograph courtesy of Discover Newport
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
Pork bao at Shōjō
Photograph courtesy of Shōjō
Asian-fusion food with a Western twist at Chinatown's Shōjō restaurant
John Harvard's Journal
A view of the renewed Kennedy School from within its courtyard
Photograph ©Peter Vanderwarker.
A campus remade in the course of the capital campaign
After another surplus, cautions about the University’s future financial constraints
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”
Congressional tax bills aim at universities’ endowment income.
George Q. Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School
Photograph by Stu Rosner
One year into his deanship, George Daley shares his vision for Harvard Medical School.
The dean of freshmen departs, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, and more
Final-club regulations and preventing preprofessionalism
Samuel Huntington
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Illustration by Mark Steele
“Reading period” debuts, the Maharishi visits, a blizzard shuts down the University, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Photograph courtesy of Tawanda Mulalu
Teaching rap in a Chinese high school, and contemplating one’s blackness
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell
The University Marshal retires, MacArthur fellows, diversifying freshman pre-orientation, and more
Recognizing outstanding authors and artists for serving our readers
He’s gone! Against Lafayette, junior Justice Shelton-Mosley scored on an 85-yard punt return.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A humbling defeat in The Game caps Harvard’s dreariest season in 17 years.
Building on last year’s record-setting rookie season, Dean Farris is still finding out just how fast he can go.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
No longer a “skinny kid,” swimmer Dean Farris ’20 builds on his breakout rookie season.
Montage
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Photograph by Robert Torres
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
Colin Jost (left) with his co-host, Michael Che, at the Weekend Update desk for Saturday Night Live
Photograph by Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
Dara Horn
Photograph by Michael B. Priest
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
Portraits of James Madison, 1816, by John Vanderlyn and of Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart
Paintings courtesy of the White House Historical Association
Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Alumni
Father Columba Stewart
Photograph by Guytano Magno/Hill Museum & Manuscript Library/Saint John’s University
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
Nancy Churnin’s biographies for children span time and space.
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.