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Mary Louise Kelly
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The All Things Considered cohost emphasized the importance of reporting to democracy.
Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, the most senior attendee in the weekend's festivities.
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Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44 and Ruth Samuels Villalovos ’49 led the alumni parade.
Michael Smith, Jane Kim, and David Hempton
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Appointments for engineering and public health schools, extension of divinity school dean’s tenure
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Alia Crum presents about mindfulness in allergy oral immunotherapy. Thich Nhat Hanh, the center's namesake, is featured on the top left of the slide.
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Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.
Hvalsey Church
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Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise
The nine graduate student presenters at the 2023 Harvard Horizons symposium
Photomontage courtesy of the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Emerging doctoral research on COVID-19, military model villages, children at risk, and more
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Top left: Bob Burres and Dawn Oates, Ed.M. ’23. Top right: Aileen Louie, Suevon Lee, Jenn Louie, M.Div. ’23, Alex Louie, Lily Louie, and Arthur Louie. Bottom left: speakers at Harvard’s affinity celebration for Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American graduates. Bottom right: David Lewis, M.P.P. ’23, Taylor Jones, M.P.P. ’23, Raie Gessesse, M.P.P. ’23, Selma Ismail, M.P.P. ’23, Lindsey Batteast, M.P.P. ’23.
Photographs by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Harvard affinity celebrations honor graduates’ diverse journeys.
ROTC graduates are sworn in during the commissioning ceremony on May 24th in Tercentenary Theatre.
Photograph by Nell Porter Brown/Harvard Magazine
Sixteen graduates were commissioned into the armed services at the ROTC ceremony.
President Bacow delivering his final Baccalaureate address, to the class of 2023.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
In his valedictory baccalaureate address, President Bacow emphasizes the value of humility.
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Mary Louise Kelly
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The All Things Considered cohost emphasized the importance of reporting to democracy.
Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, the most senior attendee in the weekend's festivities.
Photograph by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44 and Ruth Samuels Villalovos ’49 led the alumni parade.
The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
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Portrait of Petronila Méndez (1763), by Diego Antonio de Landaeta
Image courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation/ photographs by Jamie Stukenberg
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Delivering the gorgeous goods
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Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Fall River Heritage State Park’s boardwalk
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“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
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Catherine Yeo performing at the Smith Center last October during the Weatherhead Center's International Comedy Night
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For an Asian American woman, performing comedy is about much more than jokes.
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
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Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True and Carl Phillips's Then the War were among this year's Pulitzer winners.
Pulitzer prize medal in public domain; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
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The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
Jimmy Tingle
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Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
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Point guard Harmoni Turner '25 had 23 points and seven assists in Sunday's game against Columbia.
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Harvard women’s basketball’s deep WNIT run—and what it portends
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.
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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.
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Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Memorial Church, where the service will be held
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President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
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The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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November-December 2022
Letters
EV’s, Frankfurter, Judaica, pandemic education, and more
President Bacow on critics constructive and otherwise
The Supreme Court case, and articulating Harvard’s core values
The College Pump
Henry Lee Higginson
Photography courtesy of the Library of Congress
The inclusive Henry Lee Higginson, and Robert Caro’s productive fellowship
Treasure
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Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit uncovers paintings’ mysterious origins.
In this Issue
Justice Elena Kagan
Photograph courtesy of the United States Supreme Court, Public Domain
Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
Allison Feaster at the Celtics’ Auerbach Center
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office
George Reisner, 1924
Photograph courtesy of Peter Der Manuelian
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
Letters
EV’s, Frankfurter, Judaica, pandemic education, and more
President Bacow on critics constructive and otherwise
The Supreme Court case, and articulating Harvard’s core values
Right Now
Illustration by Eva Vasquéz
Two new technologies could provide an eco-friendly cooling solution.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”
Illustration by Dave Cutler
Experiments using a neuroprosthetic reveal nocturnal motor neuron learning.
Harvard Squared
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
Photograph by LEXPIX/iStock images
Exploring Burlington, Vermont
The Mattatuck Museum, newly renovated, offers a more welcoming entrance to visitors
Photograph courtesy of the Mattatuck Museum
Connecticut’s Mattatuck Museum
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
John Harvard's Journal
At Freshman Convocation, above, Dean Rakesh Khurana said, “Veritas is more than just a slogan,”
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Convocation and Morning Prayers messages about free speech and fruitful airing of differences
Giang Nguyen
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The HUHS executive director’s public health background prepared him well for the pandemic.
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
Navy SEAL Jonathan Smart (left) helps astronaut Harrison Schmitt out of the Apollo 17 capsule after it splash-landed in the Pacific Ocean.
Photograph courtesy of NASA
Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.
Archon Fung and Meredith Weenick
Photograph by Jon Chase/HPAC and courtesy of Meredith Weenick
Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more
At the Kempner debut, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan extolled cooperation among the disciplines.
Photograph by John Deputy
Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations
THE MIGHTY THOR: Junior Thor Griffith, who had two sacks and a game-high nine tackles against Merrimack, was one of the mainstays of a defensive line that routinely stifled opponents’ runners and harassed quarterbacks.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Picked to win the 2022 Ivy championship, the football team got off to a solid start.
Attacker Alex Tsotadze, men’s water polo co-captain, has become expert at exploiting aquatic physics.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Alex Tsotadze’s water polo reads and rips
Montage
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
The public, self-portrayed Sargent, 1892
Public Domain
A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent
Celeste Ng
Photograph by Kieran Kesner
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
A thunderstorm atop late-winter snow in New England, February 2014: just the thing to delight “weather nerd” Matthew Cappucci
Photograph by Matthew Cappucci
Recent books with Harvard connections
Kapwani Kiwanga
© Photo Bertille Chéret / Courtesy the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris
Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants
DeLong’s analysis resembles John Kenneth Galbraith’s (shown 1965) critique of the “affluent society.”
Photograph by Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Alumni
Torbert at work, San Francisco 49ers vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville, November 2021
Photograph by David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
A Harvard Law alum puts his degree to work on the field.
Enriching life in the Houses
Honoring the providers of exemplary service and exceptional programming
For outstanding service
The College Pump
Henry Lee Higginson
Photography courtesy of the Library of Congress
The inclusive Henry Lee Higginson, and Robert Caro’s productive fellowship
Treasure
Click on arrow to view full image
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit uncovers paintings’ mysterious origins.