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Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
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Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
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A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolA Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
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Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A still from The Painter and the Thief
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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
Photograph by Jeffrey Sturges
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
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<p class="caption">A serpentine proximal tubule (light pink) snakes through the center of a multi-layer network of blood vessels (hot pink), all created using a 3-D printer.</p>
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March-April 2020
Letters
Beautiful math, guns, sexual harassment, and more
The perils of noncommunication
The College Pump
Samuel Eliot Morison
Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
Treasure
Manuscript courtesy of Houghton Library/Photograph by Harvard Library Imaging Services
Consequences of book-breaking
In this Issue
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Hu believes a plant-based diet can help feed a growing population in a healthy, sustainable way.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
Pippa Norris
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.
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(1 of 5) Iconography of an author: Karl May as his famous character Old Shatterhand, with silver rifle (ca. 1900)Photograph by Ullstein bild Dtl./Contributor/Getty Images
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
Vincent Brown adapted several eighteenth-century maps of Jamaica to create his own narrative map of Tacky’s Revolt.
Map courtesy of Vince Brown
Vincent Brown writes war, empire, and slaves’ agency into the history of Atlantic slavery.
Letters
Beautiful math, guns, sexual harassment, and more
The perils of noncommunication
Right Now
Illustration by Darrel Rees
Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.
Illustration by Michal Steich
Index funds cast a large proportion of proxy votes in U.S. companies, but take a hands-off approach with management.
Illustration by Phil Foster
The right to rule depends not only on the way power is gained, but how it is wielded.
A common plasticizer causes infertility, and fructose affects fat metabolism.
Harvard Squared
At The Homestead
Photograph by Norman Eggert/Alamy Stock Photo
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
Courtesy of the Bruce Museum
Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
Sean Staples, Hazel Royer, and Eric Royer perform
Photograph courtesy of Atwood’s Tavern
Boosting bluegrass in Cambridge
Photograph by Ryan Carollo
Contra dancing, Balkan music, sea chanteys—and more!
Gustazo’s lively bar zone
Photograph courtesy of Gustazo Cuban Kitchen & Bar
Modern delights of Cuban cuisine, in Cambridge
John Harvard's Journal
Mind the net: Sophomore goalie Lindsay Reed, flanked by teammates Ali Peper (13) and Nicki Lutschaunig (12), homes in on a speeding puck during a January win against Union College. Last year, Reed averaged more than 30 saves per game.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletics Communications
The many saves of a six-foot goalie
Labor law experts Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block, co-leaders of Clean Slate
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A Harvard Law School initiative calls for a revitalized labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Alan Jenkins
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A brief look at a Harvard Law School professor's long journey
Elisa New began teaching online humanities courses in 2013.
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Literature professor Elisa New spearheads an online poetry course for talented students in underserved high schools.
Caroline Tervo ’18 researched North Carolina politics—at the local craft brewery, at Olive Garden, and at IHOP.
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Undergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
A professor arrested, gift-giving guidelines, and an update on the graduate-student union
Rendering courtesy of Tishman Speyer
The Law School launches a “Shield Working Group,” Allston update, keeping tabs on “fake news,” and more
Illustration by Bodil Jane/Folio Art
The Undergraduate writes about the Harvard Women’s Center.
Matt “Happy” Gilmore smiles behind the wheel. Zamboni-driving takes focus, but Gilmore says that he loves waving to children in the crowd and making their day.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice
Montage
Actors Jon Michael Hill (seated) and Namir Smallwood in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Pass Over
Photograph by Jeremy Daniel
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
Bookworms often start young.
Photograph by Fox Photos/Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
An addiction to reading
The Frank House, in 1940: the study, with a large collection of books on architecture and modern art from the 1930s
Photograph by Ezra Stoller 1940/ ©2020 Alan I. W. Frank ‘54
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Yangsze Choo
Photograph by James Cham
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
Alumni
Choi and supporters gathered at the New York state capitol last year to urge passage of new driver’s license legislation.
Photograph courtesy of the New York Immigration Coalition
Steven Choi, J.D. ’04, works—and fights—at the vitriolic epicenter of immigration politics.
The HAA recognizes those who bolster Harvard clubs and SIGs.
The official 2020 slates
At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
Photograph courtesy of Judy Goodhue
Are you eligible to carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?
A possible film about cardiologist Paul Dudley White
The College Pump
Samuel Eliot Morison
Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
Treasure
Manuscript courtesy of Houghton Library/Photograph by Harvard Library Imaging Services
Consequences of book-breaking