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How architect Anyeley Hallová became a leader in sustainable development for social justice
Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and Sarah Siegel Muncey
Photographs courtesy of Neighborhood Villages; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Neighborhood Villages in action, pre- and post-pandemic
Alumni friends collaborate to help students at the Asian University for Women.
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Crafting algorithms to optimize search and rescue operations, delivery drones, and more
Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
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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
Photograph courtesy of Christine Mansour
How Christine Mansour became a beach handball star
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Gazing across symmetrical reflecting pools of the restored Blue Garden
Photograph ©Millicent Harvery/Courtesy of the Blue Garden
Newport's restored landscape
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
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Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
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.
Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
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
Photograph courtesy of Christine Mansour
How Christine Mansour became a beach handball star
Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
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Reconstruction of a local landmark begins soon.
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
From the archives
George Bucknam Dorr on the Beachcroft Path on Huguenot Head
Photograph courtesy of Friends of Acadia and the National Park Service and NPS/Archive
Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944
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Liberal arts, repatriation, sea level, palindromes
Harvard’s investment in quantum science
Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
Sandeep Robert Datta
Photograph by Stu Rosner
COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science.
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.
Liberal arts, repatriation, sea level, palindromes
Harvard’s investment in quantum science
Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
A sample of Physarum polycephalum sends out slimy, finger-like tendrils to sense information about its petri dish environment.
Image courtesy of Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University, and Wyss Institute at Harvard University
A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield Museums
Art, 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 stein-laden mahogany back bar, and original 1935 booths featuring animal antler sconces
Photograph courtesy of The Student Prince
A Springfield, Massachusetts, tradition lives on
Hurricane LXXXIV
©Clifford Ross/courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art
Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art
The newly renovated Houghton Library features an upgraded reading room, a redesigned lobby, and improved accessibility features inside and out. The library reopened on September 1 for students and faculty and staff members.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Resuming Harvard in residence, with continuing coronavirus cautions
Bruno Carvalho
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An urbanist’s lifelong study of the “rhythm of cities,” from Rio to Cambridge
James Stock
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Bacow names economist James Stock to a new position, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability
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Illustration by Angelo Dolojan
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Polarizing pick: President Donald Trump applauds newly confirmed associate justice Amy Coney Barrett, October 26, 2020.
Photograph by Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come
Striking cicada specimens, from the museum holdings
Photograph by Diana Zlatanovski
Recent books with Harvard connections
Sam Wu conducts his composition, The Building of a City, with the MusicaNova Orchestra in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 2020.
Photograph courtesy of Sam Wu
The "blurred boundaries" of Sam Wu's compositions