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Photograph of a pet hamster, dyed Yale blue, for a humor piece about Yale admissions

Memorable Mentors

Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned

by Primus VI

Reginald Dwayne Betts seated in front of a black background

An Obligation to Dignity

Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment

by Lydialyle Gibson

Painting: Carnations, Gillyvors, Willow

The Paintings Found Behind a Shelf of Books in the Harvard Botanical Museum

The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum

by Edward Tabor

Giant cartoonish elephant sculpture of Dr. Suess character Horton

The Places You’ll Go

Art, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sam Wu conducts an orchestra

Visual Music

The "blurred boundaries" of Sam Wu's compositions

by Nancy Walecki

Photograph of Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in a 1920s book on his archaeological explorations

Edgar James Banks

Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945

by Nancy Freudenthal

James Stock

Elevating Climate Issues

Bacow names economist James Stock to a new position, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability

by Jonathan Shaw

Photo of Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow

Seeing Further

Harvard’s investment in quantum science

by Lawrence S. Bacow

Dramatic photograph of volatile hurricane waves, by artist Clifford Ross

Curiosities: “Completely Magical”

Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored

Miller-Hunn Awards

Photo of President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Supreme Court Brinkmanship

Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come

Campus, Interrupted

The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart. 

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella