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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.
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.
Illustration by John Tomac
Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
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Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
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Enriching life at the Houses
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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Harvard Yard
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
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Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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The Trilemma
Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
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November-December 2021
Letters
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
The College Pump
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
Treasure
Borders from Christmas letters, courtesy of Schlesinger library
Origins of a beloved, bemoaned Yuletide tradition
In this Issue
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.
Always a close observer of ant species, E.O. Wilson became a molecular scientist as well in the 1950s.
Photograph by Hugh Patrick Brown/Getty Images
How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson
Letters
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
Right Now
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.
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.
Harvard Squared
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
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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 1850 former arsenal that now houses the armory museum
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
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
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Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art
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This holiday, discover safely spectacular ways to celebrate the season.
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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
From left: Brittany White, Andrew Manuel Crespo, and Premal Dharia
From left: photograph by courtesy of Brittany White; photograph by Tony Luong; photograph by Prescott Loveland
A Law School institute facilitates change “from the ground up.”
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Illustration by Angelo Dolojan
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Big leg: A master of placement as well as power, Sot led the Ivies in punting in 2019 with a 42.3-yard average, highlighted by an almost surreal 76-yard boot against Holy Cross.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics Communications
Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.
Montage
Jason Bouldin in his studio
Photograph by Thad Lee
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
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
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
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Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
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
Monticello dominates most Americans’ image of Thomas Jefferson…
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A powerful public history of slavery in America
Alumni
Goodman preps for her show in the studio.
Photograph courtesy of Democracy Now!
At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
Photographs courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Enriching life at the Houses
Miller-Hunn Awards
For outstanding service
The College Pump
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
Treasure
Borders from Christmas letters, courtesy of Schlesinger library
Origins of a beloved, bemoaned Yuletide tradition