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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Lawrence H. Summers at the lectern next to his official portrait
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Unveiling the official portrait of the twenty-seventh president
Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809), Diomède assailli par les Troyens, son écuyer tué à côté de lui (Diomedes Assaulted by the Trojans, His Horseman Killed at His Side), 1756. Black ink, gray wash, black chalk, and red wash. 59.3 × 84.8 cm. Musée du Louvre, Departement des Arts graphiques, RF 40437, TL42421.2.
Image: © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Martine Beck-Coppola/Art Resource, NY.
“Dare to Know” exhibition highlights nuances in the age of reason.
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Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
More than 5,000 years ago, Caucasus hunter-gatherers from the highlands between the Black and Caspian Seas traveled west to Anatolia and north to the steppe, splitting their Proto-Indo-European language into two branches. From the steppe, their Yamnaya horse-herder descendants spread their language and genes into daughter languages and cultures across Eurasia. Border colors indicate the geographic origins of five source populations before their migrations (shown by correspondingly colored arrows), while the pie charts show the post-migration admixtures in these regions.
Figure reprinted with permission from I. Lazaridis et al., Science 377:939(2022).
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.
The rewilded planter in front of Harvard's Museum of Natural History
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Bringing native plant species back to campus.
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
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Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
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An athlete contends with injury and identity.
Brooks Newmark ’80 with an elderly Ukrainian woman
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Brooks Newmark ’80 evacuates women, children, and the elderly with his “Dunkirk-like fleet” of humanitarian buses.
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Opportunities for discovery this fall
Birches Over Pine (1966)
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
The music center, sited on a bucolic hill in Groton
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A new regional music center opens in Groton, Massachusetts.
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An athlete contends with injury and identity.
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 EarthThe Corporation’s role in communicating University strategies—and the magazine’s 125th
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Translator William Tamplin joined the Marine Corps earlier this year.
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William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20, on the lyricism and secrecy of an Arabic literary pioneer
Wisteria in Pebble Garden at Dumbarton Oaks
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The art of conserving an historic garden at Dumbarton Oaks
Birches Over Pine (1966)
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
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(1/4) KYM DANDY Even while in the clutches of Brown's Harrison Ochs (5), Harvard's Kym Wimberly (1) reached over the goal for his second touchdown. The senior wideout bedeviled the Brown secondary, making a game-high eight catches.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman/Harvard Athletic CommunicationsStrong offense, vulnerable rushing defense, and painful penalties tortured Crimson fans until the last nine seconds.
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(1/4) OPENING STRETCH. Sophomore backup quarterback Charles DiPrima and his mates got limbered up for the 148th season of Harvard football.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman Photography/courtesy of Harvard Athletic CommunicationsOvertime theatrics, as the Crimson defense and running back Aidan Borguet pull one out.
Breakout season: All eyes will be on the Crimson's Aidan Borguet (21 in white, breaking loose against Columbia) as he steps into the lead back role. As a sophomore in 2021, Borguet was named second-team All-Ivy.
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Harvard Magazine’s gridiron guru on the Crimson’s 148th season
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Prince Charles with Francis H. Burr at the 350th
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The Prince of Wales’s star turn at Harvard’s 350th anniversary gala, in 1986
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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.
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May-June 2022
Letters
“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views
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”
The College Pump
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photograph in public domain
Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
Treasure
Blanche Calloway, in her element
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Theater Collection
The success and struggles of a pioneering musician
In this Issue
Gary Jones with the truck he learned to operate at East Mississippi Community College
Photograph by Matthew G. Wood
Most Americans earn less than their parents did. Can community colleges bridge the gap?
Portrait of Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, ca. 1922
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives
Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Pierre Dupont in his pediatric surgical research lab at Boston Children’s Hospital
Photograph by Jim Harrsion
Engineering advances in surgery, mobility, and patient care
After receiving her Harvard acceptance, Abigail Mack ’25 went from dozens of views per TikTok video to tens of thousands.
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How students make videos for a world fascinated by Harvard
Letters
“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views
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”
Right Now
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Unfettered access to personal data may give Chinese companies an edge in artificial intelligence.
Illustration by Giovanni Da Rae
COVID-19’s toll on black patients extends to those who never got the virus.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
New research identifies the cellular receptors for Eastern Equine Encephalitis and two related viruses.
Harvard Squared
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
Photograph ©Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks/Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
How the artist saw community—and the world
Deer Island’s giant steel eggs and wind turbines
Photograph by Mark Nassal/Alamy Stock Photos
The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Celebratory students at Commencement
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Brattle Square Florist tulips
New businesses arrive in the neighborhood—and old ones take on new life. A Harvard2 Local Business Roundup
John Harvard's Journal
Ukrainian flag flying at University Hall
Photograph by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
Harvard responses to the war on Ukraine
Sabrineh Ardalan
Photograph by Jessica Scranton
Sabrineh Ardalan directs Harvard’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Science Center on February 14 before marching through the Yard.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Lawsuit claims the University downplayed sexual misconduct allegations against anthropology professor John Comaroff.
Clockwise from top left: Sherrilyn Ifill, Merrick B. Garland, Tracy K. Smith, Jacinda Ardern
Clockwise from top left: Photograph courtesy of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; United States Department of Justice; Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University; Photograph by the New Zealand Government/Office of the Governor-General
Jacinda Ardern, Merrick Garland, and other lead speakers at Commencement and alumni events
A hybrid classroom at Harvard Business School, created to enable in-person and remote instruction during the pandemic. The new task force report assesses innovations like this, and their application to residential, hybrid, and remote teaching and learning in Harvard’s future.
Photograph by Hensley Carrasco/Harvard Business School
The future of teaching and learning at Harvard—and beyond
Penny Pritzker elected senior fellow, climate-change investments, Allston expectations, undergraduate academics, and the reformed tenure track
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Photograph by Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Pool/Alamy Images
Associate Justice-in-waiting Jackson, the College class of 2026, and more University news
Illustration by Kimberly Morris
Exclusion and belonging in undergraduate cultural organizations
Illustration by Alice Yu Deng
Thoughts on a perennial undergraduate complaint
In a standout season, the Crimson defeated Boston College 5–4 to win its fifteenth Beanpot—and first since 2015.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
A legendary basketball coach retires, and Crimson teams excel.
Montage
Anna Soltys Morse (red shirt, gray pants) performing hand-to-hand acrobatics with other cast members of the outdoor show Branché
Photograph by Christopher Duggan
Anna Soltys Morse and the art of hand-to-hand flying
The Wexner Center for the Arts, at Ohio State University, signaled large shifts in culture—and architecture.
A comprehensive examination of avant-garde architecture
As a singer and songwriter, Claudia García performs mariachi-inspired Latin fusion music.
Photograph by Javier Vela; courtesy of mariachimusic.com
How Claudia García got “mariachi fever”
Giuliano da Sangallo’s fine hand applied to both Roman ruins and his own designs: here, San Lorenzo, in Florence
Image Scala/Art Resource, NY
Recent books with Harvard connections
Members of the Devon Regiment and police, searching homes during the Mau Mau rebellion, round up local people for interrogation c. 1954.
Photographs by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images
A new history indicts the British imperium.
Montage by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine; images from istock
Danielle Allen on America’s broken social contract
Alumni
After struggling to secure a U.S. visa for an Afghan informant, Phil Caruso has helped others navigate this complex process.
Photograph courtesy of Phil Caruso
The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are over—but promises remain unfulfilled.
Photograph by Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Philip Lovejoy to retire as Harvard Alumni Association executive director
The Board of Overseers and Alumni Association elected director slates
The College Pump
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photograph in public domain
Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
Treasure
Blanche Calloway, in her element
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Theater Collection
The success and struggles of a pioneering musician