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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
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A head-to-head comparison in 440,000 vaccinated veterans finds Moderna’s vaccine is slightly more effective than Pfizer’s at preventing a range of COVID-19 outcomes.
At last, an opportunity for the coronavirus-affected classes to proceed into Tercentenary Theatre and partake of the festival rites
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The coronavirus short-circuited their Commencement. Harvard plans a do-over.
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences leadership
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report portrays a good foundation for its academic future.
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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
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A head-to-head comparison in 440,000 vaccinated veterans finds Moderna’s vaccine is slightly more effective than Pfizer’s at preventing a range of COVID-19 outcomes.
Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
Always a close observer of ant species, E.O. Wilson became a molecular scientist as well in the 1950s.
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How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson
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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
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Enriching life at the Houses
Harvard Yard
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
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Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in Bismya; or The Lost City of Adab
University of Chicago Library’s Electronic Open
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945
Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
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Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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Hurricane LXXXIV
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Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art
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This holiday, discover safely spectacular ways to celebrate the season.
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield MuseumsArt, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley
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Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
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Stuart Little, with hat and cane. The idea of a mouse being "born" into a human family proved controversial in 1945. In later additions, he merely "arrived."
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“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
spalding as "Iphigenia of the Open Tense" in production previews at MASS MoCA
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Two jazz legends collaborate on an operatic reimagination of a Greek tragedy.
During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily ScherlisArtist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
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The Conquering Hero: Harvard quarterback Luke Emge was only 14-for-32 passing but was at his best at crunch time, leading the Crimson to their last-minute, go-ahead score.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonHarvard wins The Game in emphatic fashion.
Touchdown strut: Leaving Penn's Matthew McElroy in his wake, Harvard's Aaron Shampklin gambols toward the end zone on a 72-yard jaunt. Shampklin later put the game away with a 16-yard smash up the middle.
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The Crimson wins, keeping title hopes alive.
Mason and McKenzie Forbes
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Mason and McKenzie Forbes work together on and off the court.
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7Artwork by Rosa M. Towne and photograph by Edward Tabor
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
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At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”
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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
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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
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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
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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