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Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
Photograph credits from left: Kent Dayton and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2)
Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
Dendritic cells (like the one shown in yellow, within a pink polymer support structure) can be activated to recognize cancer cells. After migrating to the lymph nodes and spleen, they then train immune-system T cells to attack and destroy tumors.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
An implantable cancer vaccine shows promise in training the immune system to attack tumors.
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Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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(1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65Photograph courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
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Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
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Cassandra Albinson
Photograph by Stu Rosner; Painting: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) by François Boucher/Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO
TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
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An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
Photograph by Martha Stewart
David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
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The Board of Editors for volume 70 of the Harvard Law Review (1956-1957), immortalized on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.
Photograph courtesy of Nancy Boxley Tepper/reproduction by KLK Photography
An alumna looks back.
The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
From the archives
Tom Nichols
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
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.
Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
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
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
(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.
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
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
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.