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Dean Datar on the future of business and society in a digital era
Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
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The parade, roasts, and performances return to Harvard Square.
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Conceptual illustration of neural networks in the human brain.
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Harvard researchers uncover powerful association between EBV and MS, raising hopes for prevention or a cure.
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High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk
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Inequities threaten the long-term health of cities
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Noah Kirkwood
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In an injury-filled season, Harvard’s best player assumes a new role.
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner
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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
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Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
A “pause” after winning four seats in recent elections
Drew Faust chaired the committee on principles for de- or renaming.
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Faust-led committee addresses building and professorship naming decisions “profoundly antithetical” to present values.
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Wellness and physical fitness destinations in the Cambridge area and beyond
The impressive two-tiered modern interior of the Armenian Museum of America
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A museum reflects an ancient civilization and the modern global diaspora.
View of the exhibit “Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping”
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Candice Lin’s otherworldly refuge
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How alumni shaped the General’s post-war reputation.
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Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
Graphic illustrations helped sensationalize the case.
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Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media
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In an injury-filled season, Harvard’s best player assumes a new role.
Bulldog Backbreaker: Wideout Kym Wimberly hauls in Luke Emge’s third-down, last-seconds, no-timeouts pass to secure Harvard’s thrilling 31-27 victory in The Game.
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The Crimson's final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.
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.
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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
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
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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.
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