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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 RinaldoOphelia Dahl, awarded the 2023 Radcliffe Medal, discusses Partners In Health.
Moderator Jacqueline Bhabha (left) with panelists Agnes Binagwaho, Abby Maxman, Natalia Kanem, and Reema Nanavaty
Photograph by Tony RinaldoA Radcliffe Day panel discusses women’s leadership in global healthcare.
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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.
Hvalsey Church
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Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise
The nine graduate student presenters at the 2023 Harvard Horizons symposium
Photomontage courtesy of the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Emerging doctoral research on COVID-19, military model villages, children at risk, and more
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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.
President Bacow delivering his final Baccalaureate address, to the class of 2023.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
In his valedictory baccalaureate address, President Bacow emphasizes the value of humility.
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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.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
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
Delivering the gorgeous goods
Photograph courtesy of Fivefork Farms
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Fall River Heritage State Park’s boardwalk
Photograph by Sanghwan Kim/istock
“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
President Lawrence S. Bacow
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
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
Jimmy Tingle
Photograph courtesy of Jimmy Tingle
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.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Memorial Church, where the service will be held
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President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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Giant tubeworms take up chemicals from a hydrothermal vent 6,200 feet deep in the Gulf of California (the Girguis lab is world-renowned for research on these worms).
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Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor
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(Click on arrow at right to see the full image) Patricia Watwood’s 2001 posthumous portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin echoes Vermeer’s The Astronomer.
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July-August 2021
Letters
A standard-setter retires—plus U.S. presidential debates, Overseer elections, admissions biases
President Bacow on exploring better work-life balance after the pandemic
Corporation members’ civic-mindedness, and undergraduate education at research universities
The College Pump
Sidney Verba
Photograph by Justin Ide/HPAC
Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives
Treasure
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Trade cards courtesy of the Baker Library Historical Collections/Harvard Business School
A nineteenth-century advertising medium traces the rise of consumer culture.
In this Issue
Joan Donovan
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Scholars’ perspectives on a pervasive new threat
Thomas Starr King in an undated daguerreotype
Image in the public domain
Brief life of a transcendentalist out West
Emily Balskus
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Emily Balskus deciphers the human microbiome.
Letters
A standard-setter retires—plus U.S. presidential debates, Overseer elections, admissions biases
President Bacow on exploring better work-life balance after the pandemic
Corporation members’ civic-mindedness, and undergraduate education at research universities
Right Now
Illustration by Morten Moreland
Can election reforms end the crippling gridlock in American politics?
Srivastava hopes to learn how neoblasts persist and reawaken, and why human and other mammalian stem cells are limited in their regenerative capacities.
Courtesy of Mansi Srivastava
Mansi Srivastava’s basic research seeks to uncover the origins of whole-body regeneration in animals.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The research provides insight into the way materials react to repeated strain.
Harvard Squared
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(1 of 3) An aerial view of downtown New Bedford highlights historic buildings, which include the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and its cupola.
Dennis Tangney Jr./Istock
Exploring the coastal fishing hub’s history, architecture, parks, and arts scene
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(1 of 3) Ship America on the Grand Banks, circa 1800, by Michele Felice Cornè
©2014 Peabody Essex Museum
From oceanic voyages to romping in the waves, a new exhibit explores relationships to water.
Cruising Boston Habow at twilight
Photograph courtesy of Cycleboat Boston
Enjoying inner harbor views and history
Summer’s wild blooms abound in Weezie’s Garden
Photograph by Allison Kern/Harvard Magazine.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society renews its mission.
Honoring their Polish heritage, sisters Vanessa and Casey White launched Jaju Pierogi in 2016.
Photograph courtesy of Jaju Pierogi
Two sisters’ culinary venture honors their Polish American roots.
Photograph Courtesy of CinnamonRainbows.com
Where to explore, relax, and renew this season, from the Berkshires to the beach
John Harvard's Journal
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(1 of 3) President and deans applaud the graduates.
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
Harvard’s second, more expansive online graduation, with honorands and more
An honorable tradition resumes, virtually.
A freshman year unlike any other, memorialized in the Class of 2024 tee.
Couresy of Tyler Nilson
Class spirit (the shirt), recyclable regalia, Zoom primal scream
Namwali Serpell
Photograph by Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.
Playwriting and performance classes were piloted outdoors.
Photograph courtesy Faculty of Arts and Sciences/Office of Undergraduate Education
Pilot program points to the potential of hybrid instruction.
Elements may be in place for the University’s financial recovery.
60 Oxford Street will be overhauled and outfitted with instruments required to accommodate research in quantum science and engineering.
Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine
A large leap in the smallest science, decarbonization debates, admissions lawsuit
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
New police leader, top teachers, and an excellent economist
Illustration by Mike Austin
Why do so many Harvard students start clubs, instead of joining them?
A statistical standout: Rosenfeld shares his fascination with analytics in classrooms, conference rooms, and conventions across the country.
Photograph courtesy of Jason Rosenfeld
Jason Rosenfeld ’12 traces his path to sports-statistics success.
Montage
Zoe Sarnak was headed toward a medical career, until a college music project propelled her into an unexpected life in the arts.
Photograph courtesy of Zoe Sarnak
Composer Zoe Sarnak’s warm-hearted songs
Photograph by iStock
Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.
<p class="caption">For as long as she can remember, Bonnie Tsui has been drawn to the water: “that slide into lovely immersion, that spiraling weightlessness.”</p><p class="credit">Photograph by Lynsay Skiba</p>
In the swim with Bonnie Tsui
Puck lampoons the income tax, represented by a browbeaten mongrel cowering in front of the U.S. Treasury (1895).
Photograph ©Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images
Tax follies, Thomas Sowell, Donald Hall, and more
Man, myth, party: Mao Zedong during what is thought to be the Long March, 1934-1935, with the army in northern Shaanxi
Photograph by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images
The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends
Alumni
Alice Abarbanel with scenes from Radcliffe, illustrated by Daniel Baxter
An ambitious oral-history project captures the lived experiences of alumnae.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands, clockwise from top left: Lotte Bailyn, John Hutchinson, Marvin Kalb, and Margaret McIntosh
Courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
For graduate studies that contributed to society
Four win scholarships for study in England.
Harvard Forward gains a fourth seat on the Board of Overseers.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Harvard alumni honored for extraordinary service to the University
The College Pump
Sidney Verba
Photograph by Justin Ide/HPAC
Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives
Treasure
Click on image to see full trade cards
Trade cards courtesy of the Baker Library Historical Collections/Harvard Business School
A nineteenth-century advertising medium traces the rise of consumer culture.