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At last, an opportunity for the coronavirus-affected classes to proceed into Tercentenary Theatre and partake of the festival rites
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The coronavirus short-circuited their Commencement. Harvard plans a do-over.
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences leadership
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report portrays a good foundation for its academic future.
Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Post-pandemic, Harvard’s core faculty embraces new paradigms to adapt academically.
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Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
Illustration by John Tomac
Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Rather than shutting down turbines, China can harness surplus wind energy to make “green” hydrogen fuel and industrial chemicals.
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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
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Enriching life at the Houses
Harvard Yard
Photograph by Meena Venkataramanan
A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Gold; photo collage by Niko Yaitanes
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in Bismya; or The Lost City of Adab
University of Chicago Library’s Electronic Open
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945
Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield MuseumsArt, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley
From left: V (formerly Eve Ensler), Idina Menzel, and Diane Paulus
courtesy of the A.R.T.
Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage
The 1850 former arsenal that now houses the armory museum
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Springfield Armory National Historic Site
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Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
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Stuart Little, with hat and cane. The idea of a mouse being "born" into a human family proved controversial in 1945. In later additions, he merely "arrived."
Photograph courtesy of Houghton Library; Illustration by Garth Williams
“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
spalding as "Iphigenia of the Open Tense" in production previews at MASS MoCA
Photograph by Jon Fine
Two jazz legends collaborate on an operatic reimagination of a Greek tragedy.
During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily ScherlisArtist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
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The Conquering Hero: Harvard quarterback Luke Emge was only 14-for-32 passing but was at his best at crunch time, leading the Crimson to their last-minute, go-ahead score.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonHarvard wins The Game in emphatic fashion.
Touchdown strut: Leaving Penn's Matthew McElroy in his wake, Harvard's Aaron Shampklin gambols toward the end zone on a 72-yard jaunt. Shampklin later put the game away with a 16-yard smash up the middle.
Photograph by David Dermer/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
The Crimson wins, keeping title hopes alive.
Mason and McKenzie Forbes
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Mason and McKenzie Forbes work together on and off the court.
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7Artwork by Rosa M. Towne and photograph by Edward Tabor
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
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Goodman preps for her show in the studio.
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At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”
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Karen King
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The Bits the Bible Left Out
Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.
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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
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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
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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.
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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