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Photograph by Tony RinaldoRadcliffe Medalist Sherrilyn Ifill on the challenges of racism and the potential for progress
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Photograph courtesy of Harvard Medical SchoolPublic health leader Joia Mukherjee addresses Harvard Medical and Dental Graduates at Class Day.
From left: Martha Minow, 2022 Radcliffe Medal recipient Sherrilyn Ifill, Leslie Cornfeld, Donna Shalala, Raj Chetty, Pam Eddinger, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo
Radcliffe Class Day panelists on higher education's responsibility to boost economic mobility
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This image of Sagittarius A*, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
IMAGE CREDIT: EHT Collaboration
Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College, with moderator Christopher Li, director of research at the Indo-Pacific Security Project and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. The report issued today significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A searching examination of the places kept “outside history,” and steps to come to terms with the University’s past
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The ROTC graduates salute the flag during the national anthem
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Eight graduates commissioned into the armed services at ROTC ceremony
Michelle Wu
Photograph by Jim HarrisonThe Boston mayor shares her story at the College’s Class Day 2022.
From left: Noah Harris, Lindsay Sanwald, Benjamin Porteous, and Caroline Engelmayer
Photographs (from left to right) Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC, and Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jon Chase/HPAC; Rose Lincoln/HPACThree 2022 graduates—and one from 2020—do the honors.
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Loretta Lynch
Photograph by Martha Stewart/Courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolLoretta Lynch at Law School Class Day
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (clockwise from top left) Neil Harris, John Kamm, Vicki Sato, and Robert Zimmer
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Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
Katie Lapp
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACAfter more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
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Deer Island’s giant steel eggs and wind turbines
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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
Photograph by William “Ned” Friedman/The Harvard Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
Untitled, c.2000
Photograph ©Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks/Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
How the artist saw community—and the world
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President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
The film poster for DASH
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Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
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As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
Photograph by Michigan Athletics/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
Weld Boat House
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Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
Kathy Delaney-Smith
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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Portrait of Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, ca. 1922
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Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
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Orchestrating Opera’s Emotions
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September-October 2021
Letters
Restorative justice, Radcliffe rebranded, endowment reparations
On speaking out—on Harvard’s behalf
Opportunities in admissions, online degrees, research, and more
The College Pump
James Agee
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence
Treasure
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Image courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Harvard’s clocks and the standardization of time
In this Issue
Photograph by David Grossman Alamy Stock Photo
Lessons learned from the continuing confrontation with the coronavirus
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From Harvard Celebrities: A Book of Caricatures and Decorative Drawings, 1901
Brief life of a Harvard “character”
Eric Hegsted in Yukon snow, 2012
Photograph of Eric Hegsted courtesy of Anne Macaire
Choosing a path far from Harvard
Illustration by Dave Cutler
Considering fundamental change in the wake of the pandemic
Letters
Restorative justice, Radcliffe rebranded, endowment reparations
On speaking out—on Harvard’s behalf
Opportunities in admissions, online degrees, research, and more
Right Now
Illustration by Gwen Keraval
Long commutes harm productivity and innovation.
Illustration by Dan Page
The effect of post-glacial rebound was overlooked in the West Antarctic
Harvard Squared
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A day at Lookout Farm offers scenic views of barns and orchards
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A pandemic-era restaurant-plus-farm thrives in Natick, Massachusetts
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The synagogue's painted brick exterior
Photograph courtesy of the Touro Synagogue
Newport R.I.’s colonial era and thriving Jewish community
Scott Brundage’s 2016 book cover Swamp Scarefest
Image courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
“Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration,” at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Mother’s Lap, by Katherine Bradford
Image courtesy of the artists and the Harvard Carpenter Center
Harvard's Carpenter Center highlights works by Katherine Bradford and Diedrick Bracken
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Square bustling, again, with visitors
Photograph by Jim Harrsion
What’s new—and unchanged—in the historic heart of Cambridge
Photograph Courtesy of Wiseacres Farm
Here’s where to plan your next fall adventure in Vermont and Maine.
John Harvard's Journal
Dean Claudine Gay back in University Hall, after leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences remotely during the pandemic
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences leader’s plans before and beyond the pandemic
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An election-law scholar and litigator zeroes in on political gerrymandering.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The well-loved statue gets spiffed up for the new school year
Jane Pickering
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Disputes over the disposition of sensitive collections shadow Peabody Museum
Alan M. Garber
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard and MIT sell to a for-profit company, and pursue their mission with a new model.
Diane L. Moore
Photograph by Justin Knight
The new Religion and Public Life initiative promotes "religious literacy" in the professions
Manuel Cuevas-Trisán
Photograph by Ana Miyares Photography, LLC
New personnel chief, Supreme Court appeal, Yale aims for zero greenhouse-gas emissions, and more
“/Gaishay focusing the camera,” a photograph taken during a 1957-58 ethnographic expedition in Namibia.
Photograph is a gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM2001.29.15489
Seeking mentorship as a student of color, and finding a calling in the arts
Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead and Swathi Kella
Photographs courtesy of the subjects
The 2021-22 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
Hard chargers: All-Ivy first team linebacker Jordan Hill (55), the Crimson’s 147th captain, and defensive tackle Jacob Sykes (99) are mainstays on a defensive front seven that is rugged and deep.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Footballers shake off the rust from a long hiatus
Lyon rides on a special tandem bicycle with his son, Joshua.
Photograph courtesy of Michael J. Lyon
Michael J. Lyon pursues easy, affordable trips.
Montage
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(1 of 3) Todd Gilens's public art project, “Reading Forest,” at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center in South Lake Tahoe, is on display through November.Photograph by Todd Gilens
Todd Gilens brings wilderness into urban public art.
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Overseers in the Field #1 (2007), informed by Winfred Rembert’s life© 2021 Estate of Winfred Rembert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Wilfred Rembert’s escape from a lynching
Nabaneeta and Nandana Dev Sen in 2018
Photograph by Mala Mukerjee
A new book presents a mother and daughter’s final collaboration
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
World champion palindromist Mark Saltveit and one of the simplest palindromes in the English language
Photograph by Caleb Kenna
Mark Saltveit and the art of the palindrome
Ana Balibanu’s chalkboard, like the others in Do Not Erase, provides a glimpse into the mathematical mind at work.
Photograph by Jessica Wynne
Recent books with Harvard connections
Left to right: Phillis Wheatley, Melvin B. Tolson, Dudley Randall, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar. In the background: On Virtue, written in 1766 by Phillis Wheatley
Photomontage illustration by Niko Yaitanes
Kevin Young’s anthology of African American poetry, from Phillis Wheatley to hip hop
Alumni
Sam Sifton in his Brookyn kitchen
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
The joys of cooking with The New York Times's Sam Sifton
Vanessa Liu
Photograph by Kevin Abosch
HAA president Vanessa Liu on harnessing power “for the greater good.”
The College Pump
James Agee
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence
Treasure
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Image courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Harvard’s clocks and the standardization of time