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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
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.
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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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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
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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.
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.
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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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May-June 2023
Letters
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
As President Bacow passes the baton to President Gay, work remains in Allston, online education, FAS planning, and admissions
The College Pump
John Harvard statue, with books at hand
Photograph by Brian Snyder/Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo
John Harvard’s reading matter, a scholar poet, the towering John Fox
Treasure
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature
In this Issue
A rendering of MASS Design’s community-informed proposal to reclaim the waterfront and renew Poughkeepsie’s center
Image courtesy of MASS Design Group
MASS Design’s healing architecture
(click on image to view full photograph)
Matthew Ichihashi Potts in Memorial Church
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Archibald Henry Grimke in 1927
Courtesy Schomburg Library, New York Public Library
Brief life of a Black Harvard Law School graduate: 1849-1930
Giant tubeworms take up chemicals from a hydrothermal vent 6,200 feet deep in the Gulf of California (the Girguis lab is world-renowned for research on these worms).
Photograph courtesy of the Schmidt Ocean Institute
Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.
Letters
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
As President Bacow passes the baton to President Gay, work remains in Allston, online education, FAS planning, and admissions
Right Now
Illustration by Paul Garland
How psychological insight can make altruism more rewarding and effective
Illustration by Katie Edwards
A Harvard Business School professor turns the stage lights on the supporting cast that facilitates unethical acts
Illustration by Stephanie Cowan Dalton
A novel immunotherapy turns cancer against itself.
Harvard Squared
Fall River Heritage State Park’s boardwalk
Photograph by Sanghwan Kim/istock
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
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
Orinoco’s patio haven
Photograph courtesy of the restaurant
A selection of celebratory spots
Celebratory students at Commencement
Photograph by Jennifer Beaumont/Harvard Magazine
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Delivering the gorgeous goods
Photograph courtesy of Fivefork Farms
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Coquette at The Omni Boston Hotel at The Seaport
Photograph courtesy of Richard Cadan
Where to sleep, sup, and sip in Harvard Square and beyond this spring.
John Harvard's Journal
After announcing her appointment as senior adviser on HBCUs, President Bacow spoke with Ruth Simmons at Prairie View A&M University.
Photograph by Nicholas Hunt/Prairie View A&M University
A campus memorial, a senior adviser on engaging with HBCUs, reaching out to descendants, and teaching what has been learned
A thank you for years of dedicated service
Roger Fu
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A paleomagnetics scholar who uses ancient rocks to peer into the early lives of Earth and Mars
James Stock
Photograph by Sarah Bastille
Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
Organizers advocating a union of non-tenure-track workers rallied in Harvard Yard in February.
Photograph by Lydialyle Gibson
Organizing efforts and tough wage negotiations on campus
Tom Hanks, Ophelia Dahl, and Mary Louise Kelly
From left to right: Photograph by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, photograph courtesy of Ophelia Dahl, photograph by Mike Morgan/NPR; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Commencement speakers, women's hockey investigation, visual-culture curator, and more
Candidates for Overseers and HAA elected directors
Montage
Jimmy Tingle
Photograph courtesy of Jimmy Tingle
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
Susan Rubin Suleiman with her parents in 1949; her mother is wearing the silver pin.
Photograph courtesy of Susan Rubin Suleiman
Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after
Screenwriter Julian Breece (right) working with a colleague on set
Photograph courtesy of Julian Breece
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
Vintage Harvard Square: a view in 1960, when people dressed formally and there was no MBTA station
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives
In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney
V.V. Ganeshananthan
Photograph by Sophia Mayrhofer
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
Through warlike economic mobilization, Vladimir Lenin’s Soviet “Project-State” sought to remake institutions, cultures, psychology, end even desires.
Photograph from wikipedia/in the public domain
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
University People
Usha Thakrar in the Gleaners’ produce-packing center at Stonefield Farm
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.
At a recent boxing fundraiser, Victor Lopez-Carmen wore a beaded bear claw bolo tie in honor of his great-grandfather in the Hunkpati Dakota Nation, Chief Mato Wanagi (Chief Bear Ghost).
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Future physician Victor A. Lopez-Carmen fights for Indigenous healthcare equity
Illustration by Mike Ellis
An undergraduate perspective on the gathering crisis
The College Pump
John Harvard statue, with books at hand
Photograph by Brian Snyder/Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo
John Harvard’s reading matter, a scholar poet, the towering John Fox
Treasure
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature