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Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions
The high costs of environmental, historic-preservation, and other good intentions
Understanding “low response to training”—and searching for solutions for diabetics and others
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
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Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
A lifelong struggle with body image led Juna Gjata to podcasting.
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The commercial "enterprise research campus" will begin rising on the gray parcel at the center, above—but Harvard's broader strategy is not widley known.
Image from Google Earth
The Corporation’s role in communicating University strategies—and the magazine’s 125th
The extraordinary promise of Harvard’s libraries
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
esperanza spalding performs at the 2018 New York Live Arts Gala, sporting her signature “Life Force” outfit.
Photograph by Noam Galai/Getty Images
The musician and "songwright" invites the listener in
Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
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Parry in Paris circa 1925-1928
Photograph courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University.
Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
From the archives
This portrait of Hunt Logan by the Parisian-trained, African-American painter William Edouard Scott, was begun in 1915 while he was in residence at Tuskegee and completed at her daughter’s direction in 1918.
Portrait from Adele Logan Alexander’s personal collection
Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
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Legacies, football, knitting
President Bacow on the Arnold Arboretum as a place for plants and people
Harvard’s post-pandemic workplace culture
(Click on arrow to view full image) A sparse Bussey Hill in 1890
Photograph courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum Archives/ ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A look back at the Arboretum's history—and the millennia to come
Jarvis Givens
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
Right: Earl Brown from his Harvard transcript, c.1920.
Left: Team photo, captioned “Harvard Baseball Squad,” 1924, with Brown seated on ground far left.
Photographs courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Brief life of Harvard’s latest major league baseball player: 1903-1980
Legacies, football, knitting
President Bacow on the Arnold Arboretum as a place for plants and people
Harvard’s post-pandemic workplace culture
Gothic Revival front gate, 1865, designed by Charles Panter
Photograph by M.A. Kleen
Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.
Blue Trees, 1945
Collection Neuberger Museum of art, purchase College, State University of New York. Gift of roy r. Neuberger, 1971.02.05. ©2021 Milton avery Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Jim Frank
The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
President Bacow on pandemic and academic Harvard
Staving off the surge
Emily Oken
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Medical School
Oken's path from archaeology to epidemiology
Photograph by Johnny Louis/Getty Images
ARTS FIRST, Supreme Court affirmative-action review, fading role for standardized texts, and more
A natural- and artificial-intelligence initiative, Allston agita, shopping week, reckonings on visual culture and “denaming”
Kitch competing in a mass-start (classic) 20k in Craftsbury, Vermont.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
James Kitch on his competitive mindset
Bradley Scott Davis in his studio with his collection of Daily Frogs
Portrait by Jeff Bukowski
Bradley Scott Davis's conservation-minded artwork
Like no other leader, Lincoln “created the space for mercy.”
Photograph by Steve Allen/Alamy Stock Photo
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
(Click on arrow to view full image) Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864), from the series The Color Print Contest of a Modern Genji, 1852. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, 11.20821. Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts
Recent books with Harvard connections
Mike Schur’s How to Be Perfect, a humorous meditation on ethics, grew out of his work on the TV show The Good Place. Above: Schur on the show’s set
Photograph by Colleen Hayes/NBC
A humorous guide to ethics and philosophy, from the sitcom creator
Phillip Golub, performing with Layale Chaker’s band, believes collaboration is integral to his compositions.
Photograph by Little Olive Photography
Jazz composer Phillip Golub and the art of making magic
Abraham Riesman, at home in Providence with his cat, Barbara, writes about pop culture’s overlooked depths.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
Top row, from left to right: Monica Bharel, Sangu J. Delle, Scott Mead, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Cesar Conde; bottom row, from left to right: Todd Y. Park, Kim M. Rivera, Vikas P. Sukhatme, The Hon. Wilhelmina “Mimi” Wright
Photographs of the candidates were provided by Harvard Alumni Association.
Overseer and HAA elected-director nominees—and their views