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Michael Smith, Jane Kim, and David Hempton
Montage and photographs of schools by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; Headshots (from left): Photograph courtesy of Michael Smith; photograph courtesy of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; photograph by Justin Knight
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.
Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/Harvard Magazine
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
Photograph courtesy of Catherine Yeo
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
Photograph courtesy of Jimmy Tingle
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.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman; courtesy of Harvard Athletics
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.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Memorial Church, where the service will be held
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.
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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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).
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Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor
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Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge
Photographs courtesy of Hasty Pudding Theatricals
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
Harvard A to Z
Course catalog redux, a Chinese take on Harvard “glitz and glamour,” and the mathmetician-movie buff
Elif Batuman
Photography by Dan Tuffs/Alamy Stock Photo
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
The rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s
Image courtesy of Felipe Pereda
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Henry Lee Higginson
Photography courtesy of the Library of Congress
The inclusive Henry Lee Higginson, and Robert Caro’s productive fellowship