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HUCTW members rallied in front of the Smith Center last October, one of several similar demonstrations during the long negotiations process.
Photograph courtesy of Carrie Babash/HUCTW
A year-plus of hard-fought negotiations yield pay raises and other benefits for union members.
The launch of the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on Friday, April 7, from Cape Canaveral.
Photograph by Walter Scriptunas/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian
A satellite-mounted instrument developed at the Center for Astrophysics will track air pollution hourly across North America.
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The launch of the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on Friday, April 7, from Cape Canaveral.
Photograph by Walter Scriptunas/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian
A satellite-mounted instrument developed at the Center for Astrophysics will track air pollution hourly across North America.
Alia Crum presents about mindfulness in allergy oral immunotherapy. Thich Nhat Hanh, the center's namesake, is featured on the top left of the slide.
Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/Harvard Magazine
Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.
Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise
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Top left: Bob Burres and Dawn Oates, Ed.M. ’23. Top right: Aileen Louie, Suevon Lee, Jenn Louie, M.Div. ’23, Alex Louie, Lily Louie, and Arthur Louie. Bottom left: speakers at Harvard’s affinity celebration for Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American graduates. Bottom right: David Lewis, M.P.P. ’23, Taylor Jones, M.P.P. ’23, Raie Gessesse, M.P.P. ’23, Selma Ismail, M.P.P. ’23, Lindsey Batteast, M.P.P. ’23.
Photographs by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Harvard affinity celebrations honor graduates’ diverse journeys.
ROTC graduates are sworn in during the commissioning ceremony on May 24th in Tercentenary Theatre.
Photograph by Nell Porter Brown/Harvard Magazine
Sixteen graduates were commissioned into the armed services at the ROTC ceremony.
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The All Things Considered cohost emphasized the importance of reporting to democracy.
Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, the most senior attendee in the weekend's festivities.
Photograph by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44 and Ruth Samuels Villalovos ’49 led the alumni parade.
The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
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Portrait of Petronila Méndez (1763), by Diego Antonio de Landaeta
Image courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation/ photographs by Jamie Stukenberg
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
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Catherine Yeo performing at the Smith Center last October during the Weatherhead Center's International Comedy Night
Photograph courtesy of Catherine Yeo
For an Asian American woman, performing comedy is about much more than jokes.
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
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Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True and Carl Phillips's Then the War were among this year's Pulitzer winners.
Pulitzer prize medal in public domain; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
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Point guard Harmoni Turner '25 had 23 points and seven assists in Sunday's game against Columbia.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman; courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Harvard women’s basketball’s deep WNIT run—and what it portends
Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
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President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
From the archives
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
Active citizens are humanists.
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Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
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
Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
Illustration by Rocco Baviera
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.
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
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.
Anthony Abraham Jack
Photograph by Jill Anderson
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
Angela Merkel
Photograph by 360B/Alamy Stock Photo
Merkel at Commencement, University Professor Faust, Arts First honorand Tracy K. Smith, and more University news
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
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