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Attendees of the Cross-Cultrual Voting Kickoff smile as Trisha Prabhu ’22 takes a screenshot.
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A cross-cultural effort fosters civic engagement in activists’ own communities.
In October 2018, supporters of Students for Fair Admissions hold signs in front of the federal courthouse where the admissions trial took place.
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Appellate arguments are heard in a closely watched admissions case.
Loeb House, where the University’s governing boards convene
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCLimits on election of petition candidates and other measures are adopted.
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According to the data set assembled by Harvard Law School scholars, black and Latinx people are overrepresented in Massachusetts’ criminal caseload compared to their population in the state. White people make up 74.3 percent of the state’s population and are defendants in in 58.7 percent of cases. Black people make up 6.5 percent of the population and are defendants in 17.1 percent of cases. Latinx people make up 8.7 percent of the population, and are defendants in in 18.3 percent of cases. Click on image to view full graphic
Source: Massachusetts Racial Disparity Report
Harvard Law School researchers identify the mechanisms that lead to longer sentences for nonwhite defendants.
Sonia Hernández-Díaz
Photograph courtesy Sonia Hernández-DíazThe challenges of researching the pandemic’s effects on pregnant women
A 10-centimeter-wide glass model of Phymactis pustulata, found in intertidal zones in the Western South Atlantic. The Blaschka model is listed in the 1878 mail-order catalog of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment.
Photograph by Peter Fried/Sketchfab.com/ARC-3DComplementary imaging techniques combine to create 3-D models that virtual visitors can examine from any angle.
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Attendees of the Cross-Cultrual Voting Kickoff smile as Trisha Prabhu ’22 takes a screenshot.
Screenshot captured by Trisha Prabhu ’22.
A cross-cultural effort fosters civic engagement in activists’ own communities.
The author's dog, Yuki, out for a walk.
Photograph courtesy of Matteo WongA new College semester begins, at home.
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Some Harvard matriculants really took the road less traveled.
Bill Keenan with actor Trevor Gretzky on the set of Odd Man Rush.
Bill Keenan ’09 brings his first book onto the screen.
Newly elected Overseers. Top, from left: Raphael William Bostic, and Margaret (Midge) Purce; bottom, from left: Tracy K. Smith, Thea Sebastian, and Jayson Toweh
Harvard Forward divestment advocates win three Board of Overseers seats—and other results from alumni voting.
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(1 of 4) The Georgian mansion and adjacent slave quarters were once part of a 500-acre farm just north of Boston.Photograph by Theresa Kelliher/Courtesy of the Royall House and Slave Quarters museum
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
Classic Cape Cod sand, water, and sky
Photograph TrailLink user mybikeymio2, courtesy Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Swim, walk, and picnic along cycling routes
The Book Festival attracts book lovers from across Greater Boston
Photograph by Gaia DeSimoni/Courtesy of the Boston Book Festival
A literary festival for children and adults
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The author's dog, Yuki, out for a walk.
Photograph courtesy of Matteo WongA new College semester begins, at home.
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Adriana Colón
Photograph courtesy of Adriana ColónAdriana Colón forges aural connections.
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Photograph T. SmithIan K. Smith’s turn toward detective fiction
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Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications. Photo collage by Harvard Magazine/JCOCTOBER 19, 1929: BARRY WOOD BEATS ARMY, 20-20
Bill Keenan with actor Trevor Gretzky on the set of Odd Man Rush.
Bill Keenan ’09 brings his first book onto the screen.
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A 10-centimeter-wide glass model of Phymactis pustulata, found in intertidal zones in the Western South Atlantic. The Blaschka model is listed in the 1878 mail-order catalog of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment.
Photograph by Peter Fried/Sketchfab.com/ARC-3DComplementary imaging techniques combine to create 3-D models that virtual visitors can examine from any angle.
Illustration by Mark Steele
The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard
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Jones at work in the offices of the West Indian Gazette in Brixton, South London, in 1962
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Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
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A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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September-October 2018
Letters
Letters on faculty diversity, general education, advanced standing, and more
President Bacow looks ahead to his new freshman year.
Making the most of Harvard’s “ultimate option”
The College Pump
Joshuah Brian Campbell ’16 serenades a boogieing President Drew Faust at her pre-retirement party in Sanders Theatre.
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Spiders and ties, “Fair Harvard” encore, and Faust’s farewell
Treasure
Image gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall ©President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. PM# 2001.29.641
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
In this Issue
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, shortly before the February 11 announcement that he would become president.
Photograph by Kai-Jae Wang/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Lawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.
Davis relaxing in 1910 at Devil’s Thumb, on the Continental Divide near Corona, Colorado
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Boosting the game, and The Game
Letters
Letters on faculty diversity, general education, advanced standing, and more
President Bacow looks ahead to his new freshman year.
Making the most of Harvard’s “ultimate option”
Right Now
Illustration by Jim Frazier
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
Illustration by Sam Falconer
New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.
Illustration by Martin Hargreaves
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Harvard Squared
Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Every human-powered vehicle must stand the test of traveling on asphalt, through mud, and into the Merrimack River.
Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
Nighttime in the North End
Photograph by Dennis Tangney Jr./Getty Images
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
Diners, bar-loungers, and chefs share one big room at Comedor.
Photograph courtesy of Comedor
An intimate place for Chilean-American food in Newton
John Harvard's Journal
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
With greetings to the community, and a major faculty appointment, new Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow sets to work.
New filings in a lawsuit against Harvard over admissions allege discrimination against Asian-Americans.
Durba Mitra
Photograph courtesy of Durba Mitra
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
Image courtesy of Megan Panzano
Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
A Medical School real-estate deal, and a busy post-presidency for Drew Faust
Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
Poster courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New FAS dean, biomedical momentum, and more University news
At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine Zhang
Photographs courtesy of the subjects
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Arguably the Ivy League’s most dangerous offensive weapon, the Crimson’s return man and wideout Justice Shelton-Mosley ‘19 is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Montage
Nell Painter, a professor emerita of American history at Princeton, now works as an artist in Newark, New Jersey.
Photograph by John Emerson
Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
Sharmila Sen
Photograph courtesy of Sharmila Sen
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
Davóne Tines (left) and Michael Schachter presenting Were You There at the American Repertory Theater last December
Photograph by Evgenia Eliseeva/American Repertory Theater
An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes
Laura van den Berg
Photograph by Paul Yoon
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
Du Bois and his students inked and watercolored some 60 charts for display at the 1900 World’s Fair.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Recent books with Harvard connections
Alumni
Gerald López on a pedestrian bridge two blocks from his childhood home in East Los Angeles. For him, rebellious lawyering is not just a legal theory, but a way of being.
Photograph by Coral von Zumwalt
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
Margaret M. Wang
Photograph by Jim Harrison
New HAA president Margaret Wang ’09
Sofia Cigarroa Kennedy and KeeHup Arie Yong
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Two seniors who help make Houses into homes
ClassACT HR73 rallies classmates to engage in social change.
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
The College Pump
Joshuah Brian Campbell ’16 serenades a boogieing President Drew Faust at her pre-retirement party in Sanders Theatre.
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Spiders and ties, “Fair Harvard” encore, and Faust’s farewell
Treasure
Image gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall ©President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. PM# 2001.29.641
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari