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Anyeley Hallová
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Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and Sarah Siegel Muncey
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Neighborhood Villages in action, pre- and post-pandemic
Rohingya students arriving at the AUW campus entrance
Photograph courtesy of Kamal Ahmad
Alumni friends collaborate to help students at the Asian University for Women.
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Stephanie Gil
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Crafting algorithms to optimize search and rescue operations, delivery drones, and more
Kareem El-Badry at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii
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Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
Jean Eric Salata, Melanie Salata, Adele Fleet Bacow, Lawrence S. Bacow
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Vice provost James Stock to direct Harvard’s new Salata Institute
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
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Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
Illustration by Gwen Keraval
Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
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Anyeley Hallová
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How architect Anyeley Hallová became a leader in sustainable development for social justice
Christine Mansour at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama
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How Christine Mansour became a beach handball star
Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and Sarah Siegel Muncey
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Neighborhood Villages in action, pre- and post-pandemic
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Gazing across symmetrical reflecting pools of the restored Blue Garden
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Newport's restored landscape
Cruising on the schooner Argia
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Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Crow’s Nest (1984), by Lanford Monroe
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A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary
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Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
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Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, at Field of Wheat, a Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C., in September 2021.
Photograph courtesy of Larysa Kurylas
A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Emily Carmichael
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Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
Wendy Lesser
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The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
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Christine Mansour at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama
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How Christine Mansour became a beach handball star
Charles Altchek
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Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
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She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
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The Pit
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Reconstruction of a local landmark begins soon.
Schultes at Chiribiquete
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Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
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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