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Michael Smith, Jane Kim, and David Hempton
Montage and photographs of schools by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; Headshots (from left): Photograph courtesy of Michael Smith; photograph courtesy of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; photograph by Justin Knight
Appointments for engineering and public health schools, extension of divinity school dean’s tenure
Novelist John Green joins Radcliffe medalist Ophelia Dahl on stage to discuss Partners In Health
Photograph by Tony RinaldoOphelia Dahl, awarded the 2023 Radcliffe Medal, discusses Partners In Health.
Moderator Jacqueline Bhabha (left) with panelists Agnes Binagwaho, Abby Maxman, Natalia Kanem, and Reema Nanavaty
Photograph by Tony RinaldoA Radcliffe Day panel discusses women’s leadership in global healthcare.
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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.
Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/Harvard Magazine
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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The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced.
Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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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
Photograph courtesy of Fivefork Farms
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Fall River Heritage State Park’s boardwalk
Photograph by Sanghwan Kim/istock
“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
Photograph courtesy of Catherine Yeo
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.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
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.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
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.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
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.
Photograph by Craig Lambert
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
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January-February 2023
Letters
Readers’ views on the Supreme Court, reparations, the humanities, and more
The endowment data drought, and the FAS dean’s downsized report
President Bacow on conversations with students
The publisher and editor on changes in the magazine’s design—and its evolving service to readers in its 125th anniversary year
A salute to a writer and two artists who served readers especially well in 2022
The College Pump
Harvard A to Z
Course catalog redux, a Chinese take on Harvard “glitz and glamour,” and the mathmetician-movie buff
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection/Houghton Library
Vaudeville's mysterious Ader Brothers
In this Issue
ArtLords covered Kabul’s concrete blast walls with brightly colored murals denouncing corruption and promoting peace and human rights. This one depicted the famous handshake that followed the signing of the United States-Taliban agreement in February 2020 to end the war in Afghanistan and withdraw American troops.
Photograph courtesy of ArtLords
Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars
The rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s
Image courtesy of Felipe Pereda
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Illustration by Dave Cutler
What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities
Arthur Brooks
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.
Letters
Readers’ views on the Supreme Court, reparations, the humanities, and more
The endowment data drought, and the FAS dean’s downsized report
President Bacow on conversations with students
The publisher and editor on changes in the magazine’s design—and its evolving service to readers in its 125th anniversary year
A salute to a writer and two artists who served readers especially well in 2022
Right Now
Romanian children in a Bucharest orphanage, circa 1995
Photograph by Romano Cagnoni/Getty Images
Neglected children’s neurodevelopmental impairments persist into young adulthood.
Illustration by Gary Neill
Pharmaceutical companies subsidize the cost of their drugs to keep prices high.
Illustration by Nathan Daniels
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
Harvard Squared
Luanda's Angolan-Cape Verdean-Portuguese food
Photograph courtesy of Luanda Restaurant & Lounge
Exploring Cape Verdean and Caribbean cuisine
A rousing game of trampoline-dodgeball
Photograph courtesy of Launch
Trampoline parks—fun for all ages
Photo-multigraph #1 (long mirror and socks on teal), by Heather Rasmussen
©Heather Rasmussen/ Courtesy of The Pit, Los Angeles.
Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Boston Children's Chorus performs year-round, with special concerts celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Christmas.Photographs by Gretjen Helene/courtesy of the Boston Children’s Chorus
Boston Children's Chorus 2023 season
John Harvard's Journal
Passions ran high as the Supreme Court heard the Harvard and University of North Carolina cases on race-conscious admissions October 31. Shown here: demonstrators outside the Court
Photograph by Chip Sommadevilla/Getty Images
The Supreme Court hears the Harvard and UNC admissions cases.
Karin Öberg
Photograph by Stu Rosner
This astrochemist studies the chemical antecedents of life in the universe.
Thomas J. Hollister, vice president for finance and CFO
Paige Brown, Courtesy Tufts Medical Center
A huge budget surplus, but a down year for the endowment
The dean’s annual report, plus updates on the faculty and its finances
Sara N. Bleich
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Rankled about rankings, acting on the slavery report, and more
DOUBLE TEAM Harvard’s Truman Jones (90) and Khalil Dawsey corral Yale running back Joshua Pitsenberger. Defensive lineman (and Crimson captain) Jones led the team with six sacks and was named to the All-Ivy first team.
Photograph by Juilian Giordano/The Harvard Crimson
Kings of the road, the football team struggled at home—and in The Game.
Montage
Image of plans for Ford’s Michigan Central Park
Rendering courtesy of Mikyoung Kim Design
Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts
Conflicting cultures in Africa: “The Missionary burns the House of a Witch,” ca. 1750
Courtesy of the Biblioteca Centrale, Turin, Italy
Recent books with Harvard connections
Reid Parsons
Photograph by Ben E. Collins
Singer-songwriter Reid Parsons on the irreplaceable instrument
Elif Batuman
Photography by Dan Tuffs/Alamy Stock Photo
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
University People
Blyth Lord
Photograph by Stu Rosner
“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”
Finn Bamber (left) and Clay Oxford (right) at the control boards for In the Heights.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Theater technicians Finn Bamber and Clay Oxford bring Harvard theater to life.
Illustration by Jessie Lin
The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
The College Pump
Harvard A to Z
Course catalog redux, a Chinese take on Harvard “glitz and glamour,” and the mathmetician-movie buff
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection/Houghton Library
Vaudeville's mysterious Ader Brothers