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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation
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Senior fellow William F. Lee on the University’s priorities during President Lawrence S. Bacow’s first year
James Breyer (left) with honorand Michael Bloomberg at Harvard’s 2014 Commencement
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Further transition for the senior governing board
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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
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A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Byerly Hall
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Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsHarvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
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Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
Tatte Bakery’s pastry counter
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A Harvard Squared local business roundup
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Photograph by Melissa BlackallAt a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
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Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Click arrow on right for full image: German President Richard von Weizsäcker, the featured Commencement speaker in 1987—the fortieth anniversary of the historic Marshall Plan address
It helps to be a high official of a powerful European nation—and to have resonant things to say about your American allies.
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Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
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Brief life of a theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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March-April 2019
Letters
Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
The College Pump
Photograph by Brian Smith
Harvard’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg
Treasure
Photograph by Matthew Monteith
A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard
In this Issue
At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, physician Scott Weiner has worked to improve emergency-room guidelines for issuing opioid prescriptions.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Samuel Stouffer
Photograph courtesy of Ann Stouffer Bisconti ’62.
Brief life of Samuel Stouffer, survey researcher: 1900-1960
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(1 of 5) State police gather in front of Widener Library near sunrise on April 10.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives. HUA 969.71 Image 3
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
Letters
Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
Right Now
Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
Illustration by Rocco Baviera
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.
Illustration by Michael Paraskevas
Debora Spar argues that social change has always been driven by technology.
Harvard Squared
Last year, ArtWeek featured “art in the dark” projections on Boston Common.
Photographs courtesy of ArtWeek
ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.
Pianist Angela Hewitt
Photograph by Richard Termine
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Enjoy an early spring stroll at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary.
Photograph courtesy of Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary
Exploring nature through Mass Audubon
Howardena Pindell’s Untitled #4D
Image courtesy of the artist and the Rose Art Museum
Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
Chef Vinh Le in the kitchen
Photograph courtesy of Nem Kitchen
Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine
John Harvard's Journal
Semma Therapeutics CEO Bastiano Sanna with Xander University Professor Douglas Melton, scientific founder of the startup. The company is working to commercialize a diabetes therapy.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Robust licensing revenue and corporate alliances boost translational research.
Amy Wagers
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The skydiving Forst Family professor studies the pathophysiology of aging.
Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
Illustration by Mark Steele
Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
Anthony Abraham Jack
Photograph by Jill Anderson
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
Angela Merkel
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Merkel at Commencement, University Professor Faust, Arts First honorand Tracy K. Smith, and more University news
A.J. Mleczko interviews Buffalo Sabre Jason Pominville before a November game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Her broadcasting career began in 2005 with a cold call from NBC.
Photograph by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images
Hockey champion A.J. Mleczko in the broadcast booth
Montage
Illustration by Gaby D’Alessandro
The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
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Navigating the challenges of caring for a child who is very ill
Paolo Pasco
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Paolo Pasco and the art of making crosswords
Since 2016, says showrunner David Mandel, shown here with Veep stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale (below), it has become increasingly difficult for the show to outrun reality.
Photograph by Justin M Lubin/HBO
Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.
The multitalented Edward Gorey in September 1977, on the distinctive set he designed for the Broadway production of Dracula—for which he won a Tony Award for best costume design
Photograph by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
California dreamin’: an 1883 poster extolling land, climate, and the virtues of immigration
Photograph by Pictorial Press Ltd. / Alamy Stock Photo
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
David Garza on the roof of Henry Street Settlement’s youth-services building, with public housing and St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church beyond
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
At Henry Street Settlement, David Garza ’86 is not locking anyone out.
A celebration of notable alumni and shared interest groups
The official 2019 slates
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
The College Pump
Photograph by Brian Smith
Harvard’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg
Treasure
Photograph by Matthew Monteith
A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard