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Neighborhood Villages in action, pre- and post-pandemic
Rohingya students arriving at the AUW campus entrance
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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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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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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.
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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
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The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
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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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Geneticist David Reich rewrites the ancient human past.
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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
Photograph by iStock
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
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 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
©Clifford Ross/courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art
Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art
Photo Courtesy of @BUTTERMILKBOURBON
This holiday, discover safely spectacular ways to celebrate the season.
John Harvard's Journal
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…
Photograph by iStock
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
Photograph by iStock
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