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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.
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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
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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
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A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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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.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
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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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May-June 2018
Letters
Feeding the world, Alain Locke’s faith, divestment
At work on Harvard’s Washington agenda
Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions
The College Pump
Illustration by Michael Witte
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
Treasure
Click to see full image of the Ziegler models.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Artifacts of embryology
In this Issue
Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, Kumo, has survived 13 years with lung cancer.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver races her brother Ted and others in Washington, D.C., to kick off a 1975 Special Olympics fundraising coast-to-coast marathon.
Photograph by Bettmann/Getty Images
Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009
Jim and Deb Fallows in his hometown, Redlands, California
Photograph by Coco McKown
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
Sunset in Sampela, a village standing a few hundred yards from land in southwestern Indonesia. The nearest sizable island with an airstrip is a two-hour boat ride away.
Photograph by David Hu
In Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law
Letters
Feeding the world, Alain Locke’s faith, divestment
At work on Harvard’s Washington agenda
Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions
Right Now
Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Illustration by Doug Panton
The digital tools advertisers rely on can be easily manipulated to influence public opinion on politics.
A deputy sheriff confronts civil-rights marchers in front of the county courthouse in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1966. Greenwood, nicknamed “the Cotton Capital of the World,” depended heavily on slave labor in the nineteenth century and became a flashpoint for racial strife throughout the twentieth.
Photograph by Bettmann/Getty Images
A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.
Harvard Squared
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Abbi of Bacabi (1978), among Cannon’s last and unfinished works
Image © 2017 Estate of T. C. Cannon.
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
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The National Black Doll Museum
Pammy’s jewel-box interior
Photograph courtesy of Pammy’s
Best new restaurants in and around Cambridge
John Harvard's Journal
A homecoming: Announced as president-elect, Lawrence S. Bacow speaks on February 11
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Lawrence S. Bacow named Harvard’s twenty-ninth president
David Davidson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
FAS dean to step down, John Lewis to speak at Commencement, Hillary Clinton at Radcliffe, and more
Mara Sidmore, artistic director of Applied Theatre Practice at the Bok Center
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
News briefs, from green-energy goals and a move to course preregistration to final-club final sanctions
Course credit toward fast-tracking the A.B. is eliminated.
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/HM
First-Gen policies, Smith Center services, and more University news
Professor Jorge Domínguez is placed on administrative leave.
Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
The son and nephew of MLB players, Quinn Hoffman ’20 has played the game for as long as he can remember.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
For Quinn Hoffman, baseball is the family business.
Seth Towns ’20, the Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a game-high 24 points in the Crimson’s 74-55 victory over Cornell in the Ivy tournament semifinals.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Late winter and early spring highlights
Montage
Photograph courtesy of Jack Lueders-Booth/Gallery Kayafas
For seven years, Jack Lueders-Booth (above, left) visited the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham to teach a photography workshop several days each month. Roaming the grounds, he took women prisoners’ portraits with Polaroid, Leica, and medium-format film cameras, documenting scenes from daily life.
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
Claire Chase
Photograph by Stu Rosner
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
Richard III
Photograph by Bridgeman Art Library
Stephen Greenblatt mines Shakespeare to interpret modern times.
Battle hymn: surmounting the Berlin Wall, November 10, 1989, to the tune of “Ode to Joy,” a setting Beethoven scarcely imagined
Photograph by Peter Kneffel/AP IMages
Recent books with Harvard connections
Hanna Holborn Gray
Photograph courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Sellers at the John Brown Fort, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatric
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
The official 2018 slates
Adams speaks at a national meeting to address LGBT elder housing issues, hosted by the Obama administration in 2015.
Photograph courtesy of SAGE
Michael Adams of SAGE is looking out for LGBT elders.
Shared Interest Group gatherings in Cambridge
The College Pump
Illustration by Michael Witte
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
Treasure
Click to see full image of the Ziegler models.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Artifacts of embryology