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Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
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The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
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Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
A network of curli fibers (produced by genetically altered E. coli bacteria) can bind to intestinal surfaces, where it acts like a Band-Aid, and can even deliver probiotic therapies.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard UniversityNeel Joshi harnesses bacteria to build products sustainably.
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The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
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Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Annette Samuels, caught between classes
Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard MagazineAnnette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
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New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
Photograph by Binita PatelThe Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
Opportunities for self-improvement, and fun, at and around Harvard
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What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
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Photograph by Stu RosnerConnecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
Bearden’s stance in this ca. 1940 photograph prefigures his self-portrait in his collage Artist With Model in Studio (shown below), painted three decades later.
Photograph by Sam Shaw, ca. 1940s / Courtesy of the Romare Bearden FoundationBrief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsSexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
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This year's Campus Services holiday breakfast featured a "plant-forward" station.
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At left: The field team included (from left) Asah, Naban, Ashton (note his indispensable leech socks), and Ladi.
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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
Photograph by 360B/Alamy Stock Photo
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
Photograph by Sasi/iStock
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