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Photograph courtesy of the United States Supreme Court, Public DomainEbbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
Icebergs at the end of the Ilulissat Icefjord, Disko Bay, western Greenland
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Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Icebergs at the end of the Ilulissat Icefjord, Disko Bay, western Greenland
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Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.
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.
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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.
Harvard Business School
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Justice Elena Kagan
Photograph courtesy of the United States Supreme Court, Public DomainEbbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
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.
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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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(1/3) GAME FACES From left, senior defensive lineman David Madzivanyika, captain and defensive lineman Truman Jones, and coach Tim Murphy get ready to lead the team out of the tunnel before kickoff.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications“Too many mistakes” in a stinging non-league loss
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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.
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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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Photograph by Stu RosnerCharles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library
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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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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