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Corporation member Penny Pritzker underwrites new economics building
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Landmark support for an eminently strong department
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How far is up in a year of robust investment returns? The University of Virginia’s report is suggestive.
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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James Stock, newly appointed vice provost for climate and sustainability
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A summary of current work—and an important new appointment
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(1 of 2) In mice, a lab-evolved vector for delivering a gene therapy (MyoAAV, indicated by the presence of green fluorescent protein) selectively targets muscle (depicted whole, top, and in cross-section, above right) dramatically better than commonly used, naturally-occurring viral vectors (above left and center).Image courtesy of the Pardis Sabeti Lab and Cell/DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.028
A uniquely interdisciplinary lab has developed a new technique to deliver targeted gene therapies.
Dan Barouch
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Dan Barouch awarded $24.5 million for HIV research, Marc Lipsitch named to national center for public health forecasting
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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(1 of 2) In mice, a lab-evolved vector for delivering a gene therapy (MyoAAV, indicated by the presence of green fluorescent protein) selectively targets muscle (depicted whole, top, and in cross-section, above right) dramatically better than commonly used, naturally-occurring viral vectors (above left and center).Image courtesy of the Pardis Sabeti Lab and Cell/DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.028
A uniquely interdisciplinary lab has developed a new technique to deliver targeted gene therapies.
Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana and Harvard Alumni Association president Vanessa Liu ’96, J.D ’03, unfurl the class of 2025 banner
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President Bacow and Harvard College Dean Khurana welcome the Class of 2025 and, for the first time in-person, the Class of 2024.
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Corporation member Penny Pritzker underwrites new economics building
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Landmark support for an eminently strong department
Namwali Serpell
Screenshot by Harvard MagazineThe acclaimed author and English professor will explore mourning and reunion in The Furrows: An Elegy.
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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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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The synagogue's painted brick exterior
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Newport R.I.’s colonial era and thriving Jewish community
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A day at Lookout Farm offers scenic views of barns and orchards
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A pandemic-era restaurant-plus-farm thrives in Natick, Massachusetts
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A long-term issue: Divest Harvard signs hang from Mass. Hall—in 2015.
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Interpreting President Bacow’s recent statement on climate change
On duty: Kit Parker in spring 2003, with a village leader in southern Kandahar Province, whose son had been kidnapped by the Taliban
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But will we be better? A veteran’s reflections
Illustration by Dave Cutler
Considering fundamental change in the wake of the pandemic
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Will Wilson, Diné (b. San Francisco 1969), "Auto Immune Response: Confluence of Three Generations," 2015.
Harvard Art Museums, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2021.19. © Will Wilson; image courtesy of the artist.
Harvard Art Museums exhibition explores the American military’s effect on its homeland.
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Screenshot by Harvard MagazineThe acclaimed author and English professor will explore mourning and reunion in The Furrows: An Elegy.
The Harvard Art Museums
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The announcement comes amid a spike in cases on campus and an increase in testing frequency.
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Back in stride: After two years away, Harvard junior Aaron Shampklin (20) singed Georgetown defenders such as Jonathan Honore for 186 yards and two touchdowns.
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Harvard crushes Georgetown in the season opener.
Lyon rides on a special tandem bicycle with his son, Joshua.
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Michael J. Lyon pursues easy, affordable trips.
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.
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Footballers shake off the rust from a long hiatus
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From Harvard Celebrities: A Book of Caricatures and Decorative Drawings, 1901
Brief life of a Harvard “character”
James Agee
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Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence
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A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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The Justice Gap
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
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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