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The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
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Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe coronavirus pandemic threatened to disenfranchise alumni balloting.
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The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
Image courtesy of Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
Karen Dynan
Photograph courtesy of Karen DynanThe severe economic fallout, in context
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
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Professor and platform: William C. Kirby logs on to Zoom from home for his first remote teaching session.
On taking a Harvard Gen Ed class remotely with William C. Kirby
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
In a paper aimed at fellow educators, David Malan reports on interventions designed to teach academic honesty in the wildly popular introductory computer science course he teaches at Harvard.
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Loeb House, where the University's governing boards meet
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Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
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Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, chair of the Harvard Alumni Association Committee to Nominate Overseers and Elected Directors, and Philip Lovejoy, HAA executive director
Photographs: Courtesy of Tracy P. Palandjian and Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni AssociationOn the eve of a contested election for the governing board, looking under the hood of the nominating process
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At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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2020 Ivy foil champion Geoffrey Tourette '21 celebrates a point.
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A focus on process leads Harvard fencers to an Ivy championship.
At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Photograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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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