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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
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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
Photograph courtesy of Peter Der Manuelian
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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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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July-August 2022
Letters
Imposter syndrome, AI and authoritarianism, shopping week
Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
The College Pump
From the age that is past—Harvard Commencement 1915
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives
Commencement venues through the ages
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Houghton Library Science Fiction Collection
Science-fiction zines and the quest to save Star Trek
In this Issue
After feeling down during the early months of the pandemic, high schooler Ibrahim Barry found inspiration and support from his family.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Addressing the complexities of children’s mental health
Schultes at Chiribiquete
Photograph courtesy of the Schultes Family and the Amazon Conservation team
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
Illustration by Gwen Keraval
Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
Reich, in his laboratory at Harvard Medical School
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Geneticist David Reich rewrites the ancient human past.
Letters
Imposter syndrome, AI and authoritarianism, shopping week
Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
Right Now
Illustration by Matt Chinworth
Harvard researchers find that fracking shortens the lives of elderly Americans living downwind of unconventional oil and gas wells.
Illustration by Jungyeon Roh
Why cutting jobless aid during the pandemic didn’t send workers scrambling for work
Design renderings for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project highlight its goals of physical and social resiliency: to protect citizens from floods and provide spaces to gather.
Project rendering by BIGNYC/Bjarke Ingels Group
A Design School class suggests how “social infrastructure” can meet societal needs.
Harvard Squared
Cruising on the schooner Argia
Photograph courtesy of Argia Mystic Cruises
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Helio-Centric III, 1993
Painting ©Mildred Thompson/Courtesy of the New Britain Museum of American Art
Mildred Thompson's abstract vision
Gazing across symmetrical reflecting pools of the restored Blue Garden
Photograph ©Millicent Harvery/Courtesy of the Blue Garden
Newport's restored landscape
Crow’s Nest (1984), by Lanford Monroe
Images courtesy of the Museum of American Bird Art/Mass Audubon
A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary
Photograph courtesy of Boston Ski & Sports Club
When it comes to recreational sports, the Boston area is tough to beat.
John Harvard's Journal
Law graduates wield their gavels
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s 371st Commencement, and a celebration for the classes of 2020-2021
Urbanist William Julius Wilson and the ever-activist Gloria Steinem
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s 2022 honorary-degree recipients
Absent a printed Harvard Gazette, the Commencement crowd devoured The Crimson.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Tidbits from a memorable, celebratory Harvard week
President Lawrence S. Bacow at the 371st Commencement, May 26
President Bacow on humility, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on democracy and social media, and Attorney General Merrick Garland on civic engagement and threats to U.S. democracy
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. A report issued in April significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A long-awaited, unsparing picture
Mariana Quinn
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A former geologist follows her piano-tuner father’s footsteps.
President Bacow and Senior Fellow Lee on Harvard today
Katie Lapp
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The EVP retires, new Overseers leaders, Stanford’s sustainability school, and more
After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to replace shopping week with previous-term registration.
Illustration by Barbara Dekesyer
Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
Ma takes a drive during practice. If the past is any indication, it was a straight one.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
A standout golfer’s patient approach
Montage
Aerial view of the Green and Colorado Rivers (2016)Photograph by Stephen Strom
Photographer Stephen Strom explores otherworldly landscapes
Emily Carmichael
Photograph by Art Streiber for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
Mughal masterwork: baby jacket, southeastern India. Cotton, hand painted, mordant and resist dyed.
Photograph courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Recent books with Harvard connections
From left, Megan Moten, Caress Russell, and Keisha Coleman practice debate, and civil discourse, at Wiley College.
Photograph by Donna McWilliam/Associated Press Images
Harvard debater Bo Seo writes about productive differences of opinion.
Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh
New books by Harvard experts on college preparation, rankings, student experiences, and institutional strategies
Alumni
Wendy Lesser
Photograph by Glenn Matsumura
The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
Four seniors win scholarships to Cambridge University.
Avarita L. Hanson, William F. Lee, Dwight D. Miller, and Tom Reardon
Announcing the winners
The College Pump
From the age that is past—Harvard Commencement 1915
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives
Commencement venues through the ages
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Houghton Library Science Fiction Collection
Science-fiction zines and the quest to save Star Trek