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Photograph by Tony RinaldoRadcliffe Medalist Sherrilyn Ifill on the challenges of racism and the potential for progress
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Photograph courtesy of Harvard Medical SchoolPublic health leader Joia Mukherjee addresses Harvard Medical and Dental Graduates at Class Day.
From left: Martha Minow, 2022 Radcliffe Medal recipient Sherrilyn Ifill, Leslie Cornfeld, Donna Shalala, Raj Chetty, Pam Eddinger, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo
Radcliffe Class Day panelists on higher education's responsibility to boost economic mobility
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This image of Sagittarius A*, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College, with moderator Christopher Li, director of research at the Indo-Pacific Security Project and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. The report issued today significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A searching examination of the places kept “outside history,” and steps to come to terms with the University’s past
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The ROTC graduates salute the flag during the national anthem
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Eight graduates commissioned into the armed services at ROTC ceremony
Michelle Wu
Photograph by Jim HarrisonThe Boston mayor shares her story at the College’s Class Day 2022.
From left: Noah Harris, Lindsay Sanwald, Benjamin Porteous, and Caroline Engelmayer
Photographs (from left to right) Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC, and Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jon Chase/HPAC; Rose Lincoln/HPACThree 2022 graduates—and one from 2020—do the honors.
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Loretta Lynch
Photograph by Martha Stewart/Courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolLoretta Lynch at Law School Class Day
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (clockwise from top left) Neil Harris, John Kamm, Vicki Sato, and Robert Zimmer
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Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
Katie Lapp
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACAfter more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
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Deer Island’s giant steel eggs and wind turbines
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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
Photograph by William “Ned” Friedman/The Harvard Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
Untitled, c.2000
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How the artist saw community—and the world
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President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
The film poster for DASH
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Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
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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.
Weld Boat House
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Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
Kathy Delaney-Smith
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In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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Portrait of Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, ca. 1922
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Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anna Soltys Morse (red shirt, gray pants) performing hand-to-hand acrobatics with other cast members of the outdoor show Branché
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Acrobat Anna Soltys Morse takes flight.
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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
Photograph courtes of Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
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