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Attendees of the Cross-Cultrual Voting Kickoff smile as Trisha Prabhu ’22 takes a screenshot.
Screenshot captured by Trisha Prabhu ’22.
A cross-cultural effort fosters civic engagement in activists’ own communities.
In October 2018, supporters of Students for Fair Admissions hold signs in front of the federal courthouse where the admissions trial took place.
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Appellate arguments are heard in a closely watched admissions case.
Loeb House, where the University’s governing boards convene
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCLimits on election of petition candidates and other measures are adopted.
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According to the data set assembled by Harvard Law School scholars, black and Latinx people are overrepresented in Massachusetts’ criminal caseload compared to their population in the state. White people make up 74.3 percent of the state’s population and are defendants in in 58.7 percent of cases. Black people make up 6.5 percent of the population and are defendants in 17.1 percent of cases. Latinx people make up 8.7 percent of the population, and are defendants in in 18.3 percent of cases. Click on image to view full graphic
Source: Massachusetts Racial Disparity Report
Harvard Law School researchers identify the mechanisms that lead to longer sentences for nonwhite defendants.
Sonia Hernández-Díaz
Photograph courtesy Sonia Hernández-DíazThe challenges of researching the pandemic’s effects on pregnant women
A 10-centimeter-wide glass model of Phymactis pustulata, found in intertidal zones in the Western South Atlantic. The Blaschka model is listed in the 1878 mail-order catalog of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment.
Photograph by Peter Fried/Sketchfab.com/ARC-3DComplementary imaging techniques combine to create 3-D models that virtual visitors can examine from any angle.
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Attendees of the Cross-Cultrual Voting Kickoff smile as Trisha Prabhu ’22 takes a screenshot.
Screenshot captured by Trisha Prabhu ’22.
A cross-cultural effort fosters civic engagement in activists’ own communities.
The author's dog, Yuki, out for a walk.
Photograph courtesy of Matteo WongA new College semester begins, at home.
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Some Harvard matriculants really took the road less traveled.
Bill Keenan with actor Trevor Gretzky on the set of Odd Man Rush.
Bill Keenan ’09 brings his first book onto the screen.
Newly elected Overseers. Top, from left: Raphael William Bostic, and Margaret (Midge) Purce; bottom, from left: Tracy K. Smith, Thea Sebastian, and Jayson Toweh
Harvard Forward divestment advocates win three Board of Overseers seats—and other results from alumni voting.
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(1 of 4) Essex Bay reflects New England’s history and reliance on the natural world.Photograph courtesy of Essex River Cruises Inc.
Exploring the coastal wonders of Essex, Massachusetts
Suggestions for boosting emotional, mental, and physical wellness this fall
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(1 of 4) The Georgian mansion and adjacent slave quarters were once part of a 500-acre farm just north of Boston.Photograph by Theresa Kelliher/Courtesy of the Royall House and Slave Quarters museum
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
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The author's dog, Yuki, out for a walk.
Photograph courtesy of Matteo WongA new College semester begins, at home.
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Photograph courtesy of Adriana ColónAdriana Colón forges aural connections.
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Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications. Photo collage by Harvard Magazine/JCOCTOBER 19, 1929: BARRY WOOD BEATS ARMY, 20-20
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Bill Keenan ’09 brings his first book onto the screen.
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A 10-centimeter-wide glass model of Phymactis pustulata, found in intertidal zones in the Western South Atlantic. The Blaschka model is listed in the 1878 mail-order catalog of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment.
Photograph by Peter Fried/Sketchfab.com/ARC-3DComplementary imaging techniques combine to create 3-D models that virtual visitors can examine from any angle.
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David L. Evans made a difference for 50 years.
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May-June 2019
Letters
Letters on opioids, the Bauhaus, legacy admissions, and more
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
Students’ Top 10 list: it’s not academic
The College Pump
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Poster courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Ephemera Collection (AR.EP.PS.0669)
Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
Treasure
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A jar from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo culture, 1898 or earlierObject courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Pliable arts from across the continent
In this Issue
Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
Photograph courtesy of the Hill School Archives
Brief life of Harry Elkins Widener, theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
Illustration by Kasia Bogdanska
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
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.”
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
Letters
Letters on opioids, the Bauhaus, legacy admissions, and more
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
Students’ Top 10 list: it’s not academic
Right Now
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
Illustration by Dave Cutler
Corporate reports contain clues to predicting a firm’s future performance.
Illustration by David Plunkert
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
Harvard Squared
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
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Log-based cavities host nesting bees at the Arnold Arboretum.
Photograph by Jessica Lau
Greater Boston’s bee cultures
Seafood ceviche at Celeste, in Somerville
Photograph courtesy of the restaurant
An eclectic array of favored restaurants in Greater Boston
Tatte Bakery’s pastry counter
bygabriella.co
A Harvard Squared local business roundup
John Harvard's Journal
Houghton Library’s redesigned exterior will feature a fully accessible entrance with ramped walkways.
Rendering courtesy of Ann Beha Architects
A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”
Allan Bakke’s admissions suit began four decades-plus of protests and litigation.
Photographs from Bettmann/Getty Images
Closing arguments in the admissions lawsuit, and affirmative action in broader context
Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns
Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
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Source: Data from Office of Faculty Development & Diversity
A tenure track, resources for recruiting and retention, childcare, and more contribute to changes in the professoriate.
Transitions, appointments, and honors
A toehold for the arts in Allston
Photograph by Clare O’Keefe
ART to Allston and dual-degree decision
Timothy R. Barakett and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New Corporation members, renewing Adams House, and more University news
Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman, now analyzing interviews from 10 campuses
Photograph courtesy of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
After missing the first few games of the 2019 season with a concussion, Skinner has been among the Ivy League leaders in on-base percentage.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
For speedy center fielder Ben Skinner, slowing down is key.
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
Montage
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
Photograph courtesy of Shore Fire Media
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
Harper Lee
Photograph by Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
Casey Cep’s debut book, on a murder trial and Harper Lee
Accidental comics writer Amy Chu
Image courtesy of Amy Chu
Graphic novelist Amy Chu
An untitled 1900 ink and color work by an unidentified artist, exhibiting the strikingly modern “eight-brokens” style
Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Recent books with Harvard connections
National Women’s Party members picket the White House, 1917. In the years leading up to the Nineteenth Amendment’s passage, the protesters were a regular presence in Lafayette Square.
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Fresh portraits of U.S. foot soldiers for women’s right to vote
Modern psychiatrists revived the effort to link mental illness to biology, begun in the 1840s by scientists like Emil Kraepelin.
Photograph Wikipedia/Public Domain
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Moffett—who has trekked across the globe in search of unusual creatures—with an ants’ nest in Australia
Photograph courtesy of Mark W. Moffett
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett investigates insects—and now, evolving human societies.
The official 2019 slates
Philip Lovejoy
Photograph by Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
The HAA’s Philip Lovejoy looks ahead
Shared Interest Group gatherings in Cambridge
The College Pump
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Poster courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Ephemera Collection (AR.EP.PS.0669)
Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
Treasure
Click arrow at right for other images referenced in the text.
A jar from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo culture, 1898 or earlierObject courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Pliable arts from across the continent