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President Maia Sandu
Photograph by Jessica Scranton/Courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School of GovernmentA battler against corruption in a small, threatened nation
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Photograph by Martha Stewart/Courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolLoretta Lynch at Law School Class Day
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (clockwise from top left) Neil Harris, John Kamm, Vicki Sato, and Robert Zimmer
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Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
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This image of Sagittarius A*, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
IMAGE CREDIT: EHT Collaboration
Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College, with moderator Christopher Li, director of research at the Indo-Pacific Security Project and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. The report issued today significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A searching examination of the places kept “outside history,” and steps to come to terms with the University’s past
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The ROTC graduates salute the flag during the national anthem
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Eight graduates commissioned into the armed services at ROTC ceremony
Michelle Wu
Photograph by Jim HarrisonThe Boston mayor shares her story at the College’s Class Day 2022.
From left: Noah Harris, Lindsay Sanwald, Benjamin Porteous, and Caroline Engelmayer
Photographs (from left to right) Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC, and Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jon Chase/HPAC; Rose Lincoln/HPACThree 2022 graduates—and one from 2020—do the honors.
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Loretta Lynch
Photograph by Martha Stewart/Courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolLoretta Lynch at Law School Class Day
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (clockwise from top left) Neil Harris, John Kamm, Vicki Sato, and Robert Zimmer
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Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
Katie Lapp
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACAfter more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
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Deer Island’s giant steel eggs and wind turbines
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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
Photograph by William “Ned” Friedman/The Harvard Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
Untitled, c.2000
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How the artist saw community—and the world
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President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
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As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
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She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
Weld Boat House
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Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
Kathy Delaney-Smith
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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Portrait of Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, ca. 1922
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Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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