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The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
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The project will also include Harvard housing.
Ieva Jusionyte spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on the effect of American firearms on Mexican society.
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On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Sarah Karmon, new HAA executive director
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An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
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Ieva Jusionyte spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on the effect of American firearms on Mexican society.
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.
Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Hansjörg Wyss
Courtesy of The Wyss Foundation
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
Photograph by Lydialyle Gibson/Harvard Magazine
Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
Harvard Business School
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Sarah Karmon, new HAA executive director
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An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
Hansjörg Wyss
Courtesy of The Wyss Foundation
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Ben S. Bernanke
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Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
Photograph by LEXPIX/iStock images
Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
Courtesy of Harvard University
The project will also include Harvard housing.
Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
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(1/5) DOG DAY AFTERNOON Yale's Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog wondered what the ruckus was all about.
Photographs by Julian Giordano/The Harvard Crimson
A tough finish to a quirky season
SPREADING THE WEALTH Enjoying one of the best days for a quarterback in Harvard annals, Charlie Dean (11) surveys the Penn defense. The Crimson senior signal-caller riddled the Quakers, completing 29 of 38 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns while connecting with nine receivers.
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Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!
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(1/4) CRUNCH TIME Harvard's Joe Young is converged upon by a beehive of Columbia tacklers. The Crimson senior wideout snared three passes, one for 22 yards.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonSloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.
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The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
Photograph by Jon Chase/HPAC
Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
George Reisner, 1924
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Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
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Torbert at work, San Francisco 49ers vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville, November 2021
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A Harvard Law alum puts his degree to work on the field
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Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
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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