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Matthew Potts, Memorial Church’s new leader
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A successor leader of the Memorial Church
Byerly Hall, where the Radcliffe Institute fellows will be able to convene again once fall semester arrives
Photograph courtesy of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Dean Brown-Nagin emphasizes fellows who will “reckon with this moment and its meaning.”
President Bacow releases directive to the community.
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After renovation, 60 Oxford Street will become the hub for quantum science and engineering at Harvard.
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.
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President Bacow releases directive to the community.
Jeremy Lin
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The former NBA star headlines the undergraduates’ virtual celebration May 26.
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The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Kevin Young
Photograph by Leah L. Jones, Photographer, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
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The evocative Love Potion
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A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Piattini's sunken patio on Newbury Street, in Boston
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Boston's Piattini Wine Café
A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
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The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
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The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
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The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
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The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Braxton Shelley
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A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
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A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
Martin S. Feldstein
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
For the energetic Rueb, raising an athlete’s floor is as important as raising his ceiling.
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Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.
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University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offices, where faculty meetings are held
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Honors teaching excellence, and the memory of Nathan Glazer, in last regular meeting of the academic year
Martin S. Feldstein
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
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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.
Harvard Magazine/NPB
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