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Alumni friends collaborate to help students at the Asian University for Women.
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Stephanie Gil
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Crafting algorithms to optimize search and rescue operations, delivery drones, and more
Kareem El-Badry at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii
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Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
Jean Eric Salata, Melanie Salata, Adele Fleet Bacow, Lawrence S. Bacow
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Vice provost James Stock to direct Harvard’s new Salata Institute
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
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Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
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Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
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Anyeley Hallová
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How architect Anyeley Hallová became a leader in sustainable design for social justice.
Christine Mansour at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama
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How Christine Mansour became a beach handball star
Lauren Birchfield Kennedy and Sarah Siegel Muncey
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Neighborhood Villages in action, pre- and post-pandemic
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Gazing across symmetrical reflecting pools of the restored Blue Garden
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Newport's restored landscape
Cruising on the schooner Argia
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Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Crow’s Nest (1984), by Lanford Monroe
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A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary
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Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
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Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, at Field of Wheat, a Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C., in September 2021.
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A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Emily Carmichael
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Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
Wendy Lesser
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The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
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Christine Mansour at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama
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How Christine Mansour became a beach handball star
Charles Altchek
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Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
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She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
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The Pit
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Reconstruction of a local landmark begins soon.
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Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
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July-August 2022
Letters
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
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
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