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The co-director of the quantum science and engineering initiative receives Harvard's highest faculty honor.
The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
Photograph by istock and altered by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
Logo courtesy of Salata Institute; solar panel photograph by Unsplash
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
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Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property
A glimpse of the shops and restaurants across from the town green
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Visiting America’s first formal law school
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Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.
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Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
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Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
From the archives
David Garza on the roof of Henry Street Settlement’s youth-services building, with public housing and St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church beyond
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
At Henry Street Settlement, David Garza ’86 is not locking anyone out.
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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