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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
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Solving legal challenges at MoMA
9.16.18
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Smith Campus Center, one of the tangible results of The Harvard Campaign
Photograph by Jim HarrisonThe University reveals the results for its record-setting fund drive.
H. Luke Shaefer directs the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions—now partnering with Harvard to address economic mobility in Detroit.
Photograph courtesy of Poverty Solutions/University of MichiganJoint efforts aim at alleviating poverty and fighting the opioid epidemic.
From left, Presidents M. Roy Wilson, M.D. ’80, of Wayne State University and Lawrence S. Bacow of Harvard and Mary Kramer, director of the economic-development forum, speaking on higher education in Detroit on September 14.
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsPresident Bacow listens (and builds partnerships) in Michigan.
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Illustration by Jim Frazier
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
Illustration by Martin Hargreaves
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
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Sofia Cigarroa Kennedy and KeeHup Arie Yong
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Two seniors who help make Houses into homes
“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
Image courtesy of Megan Panzano
Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
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Photograph courtesy of Oldways, www.oldwayspt.org
Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston
Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
Photograph by Dennis Tangney Jr./Getty Images
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
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At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
(Click to see full image) “Stop Police Killings, Selma, 1965,” by Steve Schapiro
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Aquisition of Photographs. 2018.115A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences
Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
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We have handoff: After receiving the ball from quarterback and classmate Jake Smith, Harvard sophomore running back Aaron Shampklin scanned the line for an opening—the kind that he ran through all afternoon.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic CommunicationsA strong start, and for Crimson running back Aaron Shampklin, a breakout day
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
Photograph courtesy of David TannenwaldArne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
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Boosting the game, and The Game
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(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
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Boosting the game, and The Game
Joshuah Brian Campbell ’16 serenades a boogieing President Drew Faust at her pre-retirement party in Sanders Theatre.
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Spiders and ties, “Fair Harvard” encore, and Faust’s farewell
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(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
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Boosting the game, and The Game
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
James M. Thresher/Washington Post/Getty ImagesCapital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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Amory, Francis, Sandi, and Alex Blake pause briefly for a family portrait…
Photograph by Lynn Donaldson
Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
Photograph by Len Levasseur
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
The annual election results
Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Theodore R. Barnett ’41
Photographs by Jim Harrison
Seventy-seventh reunioners Evelyn Richmond and Theodore R. Barnett led the 2018 alumni parade.
Harvard graduates are Britain-bound.
Clockwise from top left: Robert Coles, Robert N. Shapiro, Alice Welch, and Drew Gilpin Faust
Photographs by Jim Harrison
For extraordinary service to the University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Choon Fong Shih, Harold Luft, Beth Adelson, and Guido Goldman
Photograph courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Contributions to society from graduate research
Madelyn Ho during a playful moment in Esplanade, one of choreographer Paul Taylor’s most famous works
Photograph by Paul B. Goode
Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.