On the cover: Lawrence S. Bacow at Elmwood, April 25, 2023. Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Letters
Cambridge 02138
Climate change, philanthropy, the GSAS naming gift
Not Sporting?
Crimson athletics meets the transfer portal, compensation for student names and images, different demographics, and other looming threats
In Service
Editing obituaries and class notes
July-August 2023
On the cover: Lawrence S. Bacow at Elmwood, April 25, 2023. Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Features
Short and Sweet
Larry Bacow’s Harvard presidency, beyond the pandemic
Ursula B. Marvin
Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018
“This Beautiful Machine”
Paola Arlotta’s organoids provide a window into the human brain.
Sound as Ever
Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Nepotism’s Impact in the Job Market
How connections in blue-collar work disadvantage women and blacks
Engineering Virus-free Cells… and Organs?
Harvard researchers have built bacteria resistant to viral infections.
Spotting Pollutants from Space
A satellite-mounted instrument developed at the Center for Astrophysics will track air pollution hourly across North America.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Sunlight and Shadow
The 372nd Commencement was perfect, as the University prepares for a leadership transition.
Honoris Causa
Harvard’s 2023 honorary-degree recipients
Commencement Confetti
This and that from Harvard’s annual graduation extravaganza
The Talk, 2023
Commencement 2023 speeches, including President Bacow’s valedictory baccalaureate and Tom Hanks’s address
Easing the College Transition
Rising Scholars brings incoming first-years from under-funded high schools to campus early.
Kari Nadeau
Multi-allergy immunotherapy pioneer Kari Nadeau returns to Harvard
News in Brief
Corporation changes, Overseers’ leaders, the Mass. Hall chief of staff, Graduate School naming gift, and more
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Who’s News
Honored academicians, Radcliffe Institute fellows, and more
Centennial Medalists
Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
Harvard Medalists
Five honored for service to the University
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
Four moving on to further studies abroad
Election Results 2023
New Harvard Overseers and HAA elected directors
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Something from Nothing
Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin
“You Need to Move”
A vivid account of climate change and resilience
For the Homies
In José Olivarez’s poetry, the political is personal.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Impatience Is a Virtue
Violinist-multitasker Sumire Hirotsuru
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Happenings in Hartford
Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more
Master Watercolorists
Works by Sargent, Homer, and others at the Worcester Art Museum
Films by a Japanese Master
The Harvard Film Archive’s “Complete Ozu Yasujirō”
Get Out
Where to enjoy a classic New England summer on land, sea, and sky
University People Harvardians far and wide
A New Face of American Evangelicalism
Walter Kim aims for “a way forward even within difference.”
Striving for the Straus Cup
The students who keep competition friendly
Uncharted Territory
A recent graduate thinks about what is means to take unconventional paths after Harvard.
