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Byerly Hall, where the Radcliffe Institute fellows will be able to convene again once fall semester arrives
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Dean Brown-Nagin emphasizes fellows who will “reckon with this moment and its meaning.”
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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
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After renovation, 60 Oxford Street will become the hub for quantum science and engineering at Harvard.
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Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
Knoll in the field
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Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
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Jeremy Lin
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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
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HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
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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.
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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.
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The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Marilyn Booth
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Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
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A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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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
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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
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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