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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
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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.
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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
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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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November-December 2018
Letters
Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
The College Pump
Treasure
A puma subduing a captive
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1916TL41968)
Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s
In this Issue
Karen King
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.
Millicent Todd Bingham looks over her mother’s shoulder in this double portrait from 1931.
Photograph courtesy of the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection (MS 496E). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
Vamsi Mootha with an image from his lab showing thread-like mitochondria (green) moving within a cell.
Portrait and collage by Jim Harrison; image of mitochondria courtesy of Vamsi Mootha and the Mootha Laboratory
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) Maurice Lalau image for “The Juggler of Notre Dame,” by Anatole France (1924)
Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Letters
Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
Right Now
Illustration by Dan Page
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
Illustration by Chiara Zarmati/Salzman Art
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Illustration by Tim Ellis
Can public goods survive white flight?
Harvard Squared
The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
Dancers Twyla Tharp and Graciela Figueroa in After ‘Suite’ (1969)
Photograph by Jack Mitchell
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
Snowy grounds at sunset
Photograph courtesy of the Trustees
Winterlights and scavenger hunts at the historic Stevens-Coolidge Place
Unite or Perish, Chicago (1968), by John Simmons
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs.2018.119
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
B & G Oysters
Courtesy of www.bandgoysters.com
A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
John Harvard's Journal
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) President Bacow delivers his inaugural address.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The University’s new leader focuses on challenges to higher education in America.
New convening spaces now beckon on both sides of the Charles. Smith Campus Center, shown here, opens the former Holyoke Center to the street, and invites casual dining, study, hanging out, and performances.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Smith Campus Center, Klarman Hall debut.
Harvard’s $9.62-billion fund drive
Admissions litigation, sexual assault, humanities losses, endowment taxes
Brian K. Lee
Photograph by Rob Greer
New development director, online degrees, leadership leaders, and more
George Andreou
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Harvard University Press director George Andreou on the future of academic publishing
On tippytoes: Harvard’s Justice Shelton-Mosley performs a sideline balancing act after one of his game-high 10 catches against Rhode Island. The senior wideout suffered a severe leg injury against Cornell a week later.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
The early season holds no easy wins for Harvard football.
Saber fencer Eli Dershwitz enters his final Harvard season hungrier than ever.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Ranked first in the world, fencer Eli Dershwitz looks to the 2020 Olympics.
Montage
In the Metropolitan Opera’s scene shop, Sarah Meyers stands calmly next to a monster’s oversized snout.
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Shane McCrae
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
From the Peabody Museum collections, a reduced-scale macaw-feather fan—a burial offering—and its larger model, a real fan
Illustration by Andrew James Hamilton
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Standing tall: Mikimoto Ginza 2, in Tokyo, Japan: one of the new generation of striking highrises
Photograph by Edmund Sumner/View/Alamy Stock Photo
Recent books with Harvard connections
Philip Johnson at his iconic modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949
Photograph by Arnold Newman/Liaison Agency/Getty Images
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
For Jill Vialet, photographed at Oakland’s Laurel Elementary School, play and work are nearly synonymous.
Photograph by Eric Kayne
Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess
Merriner with members of the high-school cross-country team from Galena’s Sidney C. Huntington School, named for a legendary Alaska Native outdoorsman and education advocate.
Photograph courtesy of Paul Apfelbeck
In rural Alaska, Jim Merriner runs a school district with a major educational footprint across the state.
The College Pump
Treasure
A puma subduing a captive
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1916TL41968)
Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s