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Matthew Potts, Memorial Church’s new leader
Photograph of Michael Potts by Evgenia Eliseeva; Photograph of Memorial Church courtesy of Wikimedia/Crimson400.
A successor leader of the Memorial Church
Byerly Hall, where the Radcliffe Institute fellows will be able to convene again once fall semester arrives
Photograph courtesy of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
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
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University.
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
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
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
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Click on arrow at right to view full image
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
Courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum/Milo Stewart Jr. B-50-83
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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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
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January-February 2019
Letters
Letters on admissions, academic presses, the solicitor general, and more
President Larry Bacow on Truth
Affirmative action, donor and staff preferences, and other Harvard College admissions challenges
With appreciation to two Harvard Magazine artists
The College Pump
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Re-landscaping Massachusetts Hall, making the entrance to Harvard Yard more welcoming
Treasure
Journal from Houghton Library/Photograph by Harvard Library Imaging Services
Houghton Library, MS Eng 1610, vol. 2, frontispiece
…and a possible clue in the stacks
In this Issue
Photograph by Amélie Benoist/Science Source
Daniela Lamas and the practice of post-ICU care
A formal wartime portrait
Photograph from the Mathew Brady Collection/Library of Congres
Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines
Philip J. Deloria
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.
Letters
Letters on admissions, academic presses, the solicitor general, and more
President Larry Bacow on Truth
Affirmative action, donor and staff preferences, and other Harvard College admissions challenges
With appreciation to two Harvard Magazine artists
Right Now
Illustration by John Holcroft
Economist William Kerr argues for streamlining immigration to attract high-skilled talent from abroad.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
Cherubic features benefit black male CEOs, but not other groups, underscoring the complexity of social disadvantage.
Illustration by Pete Ryan
The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities.
Harvard Squared
A serene and snowy moment in historic Portland
Photograph courtesy of Corey Templeton Photography
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
An example of a quipu from Peru's Nazca Province
Gift of Robert Woods Bliss, 1942 © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM# 42-28-30/4532
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
A miniature version of a New England high-post bed (ca. 1750-1765), with historically accurate bed furnishings by Natalie Larson
Object on loan courtesy of Natalie and Bruce Larson
Photograph courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
Tubing at Nashoba Valley Ski Area
Photograph courtesy of Nashoba Valley Ski Area
Best snow-tubing spots around Greater Boston
John Harvard's Journal
Photograph from the OxBlue Construction Cameras
Alongside a huge applied-sciences center, a toehold for art-making
Supporters of affirmative action protested in Harvard Square the day before SFFA v. Harvard went to trial...
Photograph by Liu Jie/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
The lawsuit that could determine the fate of affirmative action
Ruth Okediji
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Nigerian-born professor who brings unusual perspective to intellectual-property law
Coming together: Greater Boston biomedical and life-sciences panelists (from left) Eric Lander (Broad Institute), Vasant Narasimhan (Novartis), and Laurie Glimcher (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), with moderator Susan Hockfield (MIT)
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A $200-million gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation paves the way.
Source: Harvard University Fact Book
A survey of the University’s annual financial report
A growing, and more scientific, professoriate and a budget breakthrough
Illustration by Mark Steele
When the Law School made thin ice…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
National Academy and NIH notables, and a pioneering Crimson leader
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New Radcliffe dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin has a blueprint for action.
Policing and students, Title IX changes, and public opinion toward higher education
Mohsen Mostafavi
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard design dean departs and other news
Illustration by Michael Parkin/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers the composition of Harvard College.
Cook’s tour: Harvard wideout Jack Cook leaves Yale’s Deonte Henson in the dust on a third-quarter, 15-yard touchdown. The score gave the Crimson a 28-24 lead, which it would not surrender.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A resilient, crowd-pleasing football season, with talented sophomores surfacing
Montage
After the harvest, Kelby Russell, who makes cold-climate white wines, stands in a vineyard overlooking New York’s Seneca Lake.
Photograph by Robyn Wishna
Why the vineyards of New York called Kelby Russell home
A boat cast adrift: visualizing the text, “Though the orange tree isle / Remain fast in its color, / ’Tis not such change, / But this drifting boat’s whither / That is beyond all knowing.”
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums Imaging Department ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Liz Glynn
Photograph by Evelena Ruether/Liz Glynn Studio
In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Bess Wohl
Photograph by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.
Making scant (and mute) evidence tell its story: the empress Sabina, sculpted A.D. 136-138
Photograph by Carole Raddato/Wikimedia
Recent books with Harvard connections
Illustration by Matt Kenyon
Economists revisit an unsettled economic policy.
Alumni
Cellist and teacher Laurence Lesser is celebrating his forty-fifth year at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Photograph by Andrew Hurlbut
A cellist and conservatory teacher who has never stopped learning
Degree-program affiliates now number 53, with 15 in the Senate and 38 in the House.
The College Pump
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Re-landscaping Massachusetts Hall, making the entrance to Harvard Yard more welcoming
Treasure
Journal from Houghton Library/Photograph by Harvard Library Imaging Services
Houghton Library, MS Eng 1610, vol. 2, frontispiece
…and a possible clue in the stacks