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The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
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The project will also include Harvard housing.
Ieva Jusionyte spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on the effect of American firearms on Mexican society.
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On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Sarah Karmon, new HAA executive director
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
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Ieva Jusionyte spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on the effect of American firearms on Mexican society.
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.
Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Hansjörg Wyss
Courtesy of The Wyss Foundation
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
Photograph by Lydialyle Gibson/Harvard Magazine
Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
Harvard Business School
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Sarah Karmon, new HAA executive director
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An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
Hansjörg Wyss
Courtesy of The Wyss Foundation
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Ben S. Bernanke
Photograph in the public domain
Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
Photograph by LEXPIX/iStock images
Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
Courtesy of Harvard University
The project will also include Harvard housing.
Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
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(1/5) DOG DAY AFTERNOON Yale's Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog wondered what the ruckus was all about.
Photographs by Julian Giordano/The Harvard Crimson
A tough finish to a quirky season
SPREADING THE WEALTH Enjoying one of the best days for a quarterback in Harvard annals, Charlie Dean (11) surveys the Penn defense. The Crimson senior signal-caller riddled the Quakers, completing 29 of 38 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns while connecting with nine receivers.
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Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!
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(1/4) CRUNCH TIME Harvard's Joe Young is converged upon by a beehive of Columbia tacklers. The Crimson senior wideout snared three passes, one for 22 yards.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonSloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.
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The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
Photograph by Jon Chase/HPAC
Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
George Reisner, 1924
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Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
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July-August 2018
Letters
Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
The College Pump
Courtesy of Penelope Laurans
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
Treasure
Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged
In this Issue
Elsie Sunderland
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Portrait of Moorfield Storey by John Singer Sargent, 1917. Charcoal on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of James Moorfield Storey
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
Drew Gilpin Faust and her husband, Charles Rosenberg, at Massachusetts Hall, May 9, 2018.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
Letters
Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
Right Now
Illustration by James Yamasaki
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Illustration by Blair Kelly
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
Harvard Squared
The daylily garden
Photograph courtesy of the Heritage Museums and Gardens
Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
If I was standing alone I wouldn’t stand it at all (2017)
Photograph by Jason Wyche; © Kevin Beasley
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
MAA MoCA is housed in a repurposed industrial mill conplex in North Adams, Masachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
Photograph by Len Levasseur
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
John Harvard's Journal
Jubilating J.D.s
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A celebration of President Drew Faust, and wariness about the assault on “veritas”
The 2018 honorands, from acclaimed artists to celebrated statesman
Gina Raimondo and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Photographs by Jim Harrison and Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Radcliffe hosts Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Rhode Island Rhodes Scholar’s modest roots
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The 2018 rites in print and digital, M.D. on her toes, and more
President Drew Faust
Photograph by Jim Harrison
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
Phil Torrey
Photograph courtesy of Phil Torrey
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Seen at the Arnold Arboretum: a paperbark maple in winter
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A veteran photographer of people turns his lens to plants.
From left: Penny S. Pritzker and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin
Photograph on left © Moshe Zusman Photography Studio. Photograph on right courtesy of Amherst College
A business leader and a college president join the Corporation.
Photograph reproduced courtesy of the artist, Stephen Coit
S. Allen Counter, undergraduate-education dean, teaching prizes, and more
From left: Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Bridget Terry Long
From left: Photographs by Kris Snibbe/HPAC and Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Two new deans, a graduate-student union, modest gains in faculty diversity, and a final-club update
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Mass Hall makeover, Adams House renewal on deck, quantitative biology, and more
Montage
Tom Morello at a 2016 show in Inglewood, California
Photograph by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.
W.H. Auden
Photograph from the Library of Congress
A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
Madelyn Ho during a playful moment in Esplanade, one of choreographer Paul Taylor’s most famous works
Photograph by Paul B. Goode
Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.
Robert Humphreville, a frequent Harvard Film Archive accompanist, says he’s mostly asked to play comedies, especially from “the big three”: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. (A scene from Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. appears over his shoulder.)
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Three pianists making silent film sing
When sail was swift. Pallada in Nagasaki (1854; no artist given), from A World of Empires.
Photograph by Paul Fearn/Alamy Stock Photo
Recent books with Harvard connections
Illustration by Sonia Pulido
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Amory, Francis, Sandi, and Alex Blake pause briefly for a family portrait…
Photograph by Lynn Donaldson
Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Choon Fong Shih, Harold Luft, Beth Adelson, and Guido Goldman
Photograph courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Contributions to society from graduate research
Clockwise from top left: Robert Coles, Robert N. Shapiro, Alice Welch, and Drew Gilpin Faust
Photographs by Jim Harrison
For extraordinary service to the University
Harvard graduates are Britain-bound.
Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Theodore R. Barnett ’41
Photographs by Jim Harrison
Seventy-seventh reunioners Evelyn Richmond and Theodore R. Barnett led the 2018 alumni parade.
The annual election results
Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
Photograph courtesy of SPiNE
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
The College Pump
Courtesy of Penelope Laurans
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
Treasure
Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged