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Michael Smith, Jane Kim, and David Hempton
Montage and photographs of schools by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; Headshots (from left): Photograph courtesy of Michael Smith; photograph courtesy of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; photograph by Justin Knight
Appointments for engineering and public health schools, extension of divinity school dean’s tenure
Novelist John Green joins Radcliffe medalist Ophelia Dahl on stage to discuss Partners In Health
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo
Ophelia Dahl, awarded the 2023 Radcliffe Medal, discusses Partners In Health.
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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 new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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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.
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"Shoddy," maskupmanship, American exceptionalism
President Bacow on the principles by which to steer the University
Balancing past obligations, the pandemic, and the future of Harvard’s core mission
“I really had to talk to people about their experiences,” says Sandra Susan Smith about her revealing research.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Sandra Susan Smith studies work and incarceration in an unequal, atomized America.
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An illuminated page showing Abu Zayd and his friend al-Harith, narrator of the Impostures, arriving in a village, from a copy of the Maqamat (“Impostures”) created in Baghdad in 1237 by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti. No portrait of al-Hariri is known to exist.
Image ©BnF, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY
Brief life of a master storyteller
The moderator in the middle, as Donald Trump defines “debate” to mean “brawl” in his first face-off with Joe Biden, Cleveland, last September 29.
Photograph by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images
Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”
"Shoddy," maskupmanship, American exceptionalism
President Bacow on the principles by which to steer the University
Balancing past obligations, the pandemic, and the future of Harvard’s core mission
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(1 of 5) Highfield Hall and the sunken garden
Photograph by Tom Croke/Alamy stock photo
The renewed community life of a grand Cape Cod estate
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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
Bridget Terry Long
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/HPAC
Harvard Graduate School of Education introduces core courses and a restructured professional curriculum.
Ruth J. Simmons
Courtesy of Prairie View A&M
The spring semester, coronavirus KO’s in-person Commencement, and fall prospects
A withering investigation of sexual harassment
The Harvard home page highlighted work on climate change.
Harvard Management Company issues its first “Climate Report,” and an update on divestment advocacy, and other institutions’ progress
Tishman Speyer unveiled its vision for a second, post-2024 phase of development (outside the blue dotted line delineating the phase-one project perimeter)—encompassing an additional million square feet of office/lab and residential space.
Credit: Henning Larsen, Studio Gang, Utile, and Scape.
Bigger Allston ambitions, an admissions-lawsuit appeal, and a new center for cities
A renovated Claverly Hall shines at the center of this aerial view of Adams House, as work continues in other parts of the complex.
Photograph by Peter Vanderwarker
Less construction in prospect, quantum science and engineering, and more
The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
Photograph courtesy of Che R. Applewhaite
The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
Johnson performs “What a Wonderful World” with the Boston Pops at his twenty-fifth reunion.
Photograph by Pierce Harman
Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.
Juneteenth pride: commemorating June 19 in 2020, in Greenwood, the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of 1921
Photograph by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images
Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth
Marilyn Booth
Photograph by David Levenson/Getty Images
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
An orator dictating to a scribe, Roman, 4th century, Temple of Hercules at Ostia Antica
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From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries
Maggie Shipstead
Photograph courtesy of Maggie Shipstead
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
Knoll in the field
Photograph courtesy of Andrew Knoll
Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words