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Harvard Law and College Racial Concerns
Harvard Law School (HLS) affiliates entering Wasserstein Hall Thursday morning found a startling scene: portraits of every black professor in the school’s history defaced with black tape, an incident University police are investigating as a hate crime. …
Update: Harvard versus Princeton
Harvard pulled off another late-game victory on Saturday, upending a charged-up Princeton squad at windswept, rain-soaked Palmer Stadium. Trailing 20-17 with 4:59 left in the game, the Crimson offense had a critical fourth-and-one at midfield. The Tiger …
Court Sparks
Brogan Berry The point guard —the #1 position—is the quarterback of a basketball team. She’s the floor leader, starting the attack and shouting defensive signals. Much of the team’s success or failure hinges on her performance—and luckily, the Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2011
Art Across Borders
In 2018, when Osman Khalid Waheed ’93 and Qudsia Rahim were organizing the inaugural Lahore Biennale, a large-scale international contemporary art exhibition, they ran into a problem: there were no contemporary art museums in the Pakistani city to display …
When to Arrest Protesters
On the evening of April 30, 2024, the New York Police Department arrested 112 people in and around Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestine protesters occupied the building. In Cambridge, McCormack professor of citizenship and …
Congratulations, Contributors
We take great pleasure in saluting three outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2015, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Spencer Lenfield A former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at this magazine, …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Future of Tuberculosis
Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one in 10 …
Our Masked Selves
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, amid spreading fears and sheltered isolation, Los Angeles artist Richard Nielsen painted a colorful portrait of himself in a mask. Soon, he was painting friends and family members in their …
Issue: March-April 2021
University Professors
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Stephanie Mitchell/ Harvard News Office President Lawrence H. Summers appointed two utterly different historians, both members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to University Professorships, Harvard’s most distinguished chairs, …
Issue: March-April 2006
“Here and Then Gone”
In playwright Bess Wohl’s work—sweet and sharp and sad, and often darkly funny—something important is usually missing. In American Hero, it is the owner of a new sandwich franchise who mysteriously disappears, leaving his employees to drift between …
Issue: January-February 2019
Alumni Interviewers Honored
This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective …
Issue: September-October 2022
Can Slime Molds Think?
Slime mold doesn’t look like much , really. The bright yellow protist goes by many names: ninth-century Chinese scholar Twang Ching-Shih called it “demon droppings”; Carl Linnaeus referred to it as “rotting mucus”; and Dallas residents who watched slime …
Issue: November-December 2021
All in a Day: Hull’s Lifesaving Legacy
The best route to Hull is by boat. As the MBTA’s commuter ferry snakes among Boston Harbor’s islands, passengers can eye the treacherous shipping route that gave rise to the town’s Point Allerton Lifesaving Station in 1889. Back then, the “small, …
Issue: September-October 2015
Restoring Justice
“I spent 28 years in prison,” Armand Coleman was saying to the Harvard Law School students and professors gathered over Zoom on an early spring afternoon. For 22 of those years, he lived in a maximum-security prison; for 12, he was in solitary …
Issue: July-August 2021
Downsizing: Arsenal Buildings Sold
athenahealth , a healthcare computer-services company, and the lead tenant in the Arsenal on the Charles office complex, announced on December 5 that it has agreed to purchase the property from Harvard for $168.5 million to accommodate its headquarters …