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Michael Smith, Jane Kim, and David Hempton
Montage and photographs of schools by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; Headshots (from left): Photograph courtesy of Michael Smith; photograph courtesy of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; photograph by Justin Knight
Appointments for engineering and public health schools, extension of divinity school dean’s tenure
Novelist John Green joins Radcliffe medalist Ophelia Dahl on stage to discuss Partners In Health
Photograph by Tony RinaldoOphelia Dahl, awarded the 2023 Radcliffe Medal, discusses Partners In Health.
Moderator Jacqueline Bhabha (left) with panelists Agnes Binagwaho, Abby Maxman, Natalia Kanem, and Reema Nanavaty
Photograph by Tony RinaldoA Radcliffe Day panel discusses women’s leadership in global healthcare.
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Alia Crum presents about mindfulness in allergy oral immunotherapy. Thich Nhat Hanh, the center's namesake, is featured on the top left of the slide.
Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/Harvard Magazine
Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.
Hvalsey Church
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Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise
The nine graduate student presenters at the 2023 Harvard Horizons symposium
Photomontage courtesy of the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Emerging doctoral research on COVID-19, military model villages, children at risk, and more
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Top left: Bob Burres and Dawn Oates, Ed.M. ’23. Top right: Aileen Louie, Suevon Lee, Jenn Louie, M.Div. ’23, Alex Louie, Lily Louie, and Arthur Louie. Bottom left: speakers at Harvard’s affinity celebration for Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American graduates. Bottom right: David Lewis, M.P.P. ’23, Taylor Jones, M.P.P. ’23, Raie Gessesse, M.P.P. ’23, Selma Ismail, M.P.P. ’23, Lindsey Batteast, M.P.P. ’23.
Photographs by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Harvard affinity celebrations honor graduates’ diverse journeys.
ROTC graduates are sworn in during the commissioning ceremony on May 24th in Tercentenary Theatre.
Photograph by Nell Porter Brown/Harvard Magazine
Sixteen graduates were commissioned into the armed services at the ROTC ceremony.
President Bacow delivering his final Baccalaureate address, to the class of 2023.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
In his valedictory baccalaureate address, President Bacow emphasizes the value of humility.
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The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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Portrait of Petronila Méndez (1763), by Diego Antonio de Landaeta
Image courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation/ photographs by Jamie Stukenberg
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Delivering the gorgeous goods
Photograph courtesy of Fivefork Farms
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Fall River Heritage State Park’s boardwalk
Photograph by Sanghwan Kim/istock
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
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Catherine Yeo performing at the Smith Center last October during the Weatherhead Center's International Comedy Night
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For an Asian American woman, performing comedy is about much more than jokes.
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
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Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True and Carl Phillips's Then the War were among this year's Pulitzer winners.
Pulitzer prize medal in public domain; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
Jimmy Tingle
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Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
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Point guard Harmoni Turner '25 had 23 points and seven assists in Sunday's game against Columbia.
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Harvard women’s basketball’s deep WNIT run—and what it portends
Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
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Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Memorial Church, where the service will be held
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President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
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The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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March-April 2018
Letters
Endowment taxes, final clubs, Chapter and Verse
President Drew Faust on Allston
Ideas from Harvard’s presidential search
The College Pump
Photographs by Lydia Carmichael
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Manuscript acquired with assistance from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation
Rare and beautiful, then and now: a Byzantine codex at Dumbarton Oaks
In this Issue
Tom Nichols
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
Alain Locke in an undated photograph
Photograph courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
Boston Children’s Hospital physician-in-chief Mary Ellen Avery at work in the mid 1970s
Photograph copyright Georgia Litwack
Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011
At Indigo Ag’s Charlestown headquarters, technicians track plant growth,…
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Abundant food and better than ever?
Letters
Endowment taxes, final clubs, Chapter and Verse
President Drew Faust on Allston
Ideas from Harvard’s presidential search
Right Now
Illustration by Dan Page
Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
Illustration by Daniel Baxter
Research with infants suggests the ability to understand abstract relationships.
Illustration by Marina Micheli
Mate choice is often controlled by genetics, but sometimes culture plays a role.
Harvard Squared
April’s Little Poland Festival
Courtesy of the Little Poland Festival, New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain’s “Little Poland” and museum of American art
A flyer Gorey illustrated for a 1952 Poets' Theatre performance.
Edward Gorey/ Announcement for The Poets’ Theatre performance in Fogg Museum Court, May, 1952/ Offset lithography on paper, 5 1/2 x 14 in./©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Erica Viscio, a.k.a. “Maul,” slams by opponents on the track.
Photograph by Steve Jurkovic
Harvard ties to the increasingly popular, rigorous sport
Robots at the MIT Museum
Photograph courtesy of the Cambridge Science Festival
Engage in “hands-on, creative activities directly with scientists.”
Broadsheet is on Kirkland Street in Cambridge.
Photographs by Jane Messinger
An antidote to Starbucksification?
John Harvard's Journal
Klarman Hall
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard Business School’s evolving campus
The new tax law boosts financial pressures.
The Corporation decides.
Makeda Best
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator
Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies
Tamara Elliott Rogers
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more
Seth Towns ’20 is one of the team’s most versatile offensive threats.
Photograph by Eric Miller/Harvard Athletic Communications
A young men’s basketball team battles inconsistency.
Jenny Allard
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Under coach Jenny Allard, Crimson players come alive together.
Montage
Theresa McCulla in the archives center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatrick
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
Nell Scovell
Photograph by Robert Trachtenberg
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
Silhouette by Joseph Cranston Jones from The Tree Named John by John B. Sale, The University of North Carolina Press, 1929
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
While at the CCVA, Renée Green set up grids of images for Code Survey ...
Courtesy of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts/Harvard University/Renée Green
Renée Green’s exhibition “Within Living Memory” closes her Harvard residency.
The Pursuit (1771-72), from Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s series The Pursuit of Love, designed for a chateau belonging to Mme. Du Barry, mistress of Louis XV
Painting from Bridgeman Art Library
Recent books with Harvard connections
Illustration by Peter Horvath
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Erica Walker
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”
A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups
The official 2018 slates
Rapp focused on war crimes and criminals as U.S. ambassador-at-large.
Courtesy of United States Mission Geneva/Wikimedia/Creative Commons
Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes.
The College Pump
Photographs by Lydia Carmichael
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Manuscript acquired with assistance from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation
Rare and beautiful, then and now: a Byzantine codex at Dumbarton Oaks