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A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Curtis McMullen's prints hang in the Science Center lobby.
Photograph by Drew PendergrassA Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize. The image may be the only contemporaneous visual depiction by Europeans showing the importance of agriculture to Native Americans in the New World.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
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A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize. The image may be the only contemporaneous visual depiction by Europeans showing the importance of agriculture to Native Americans in the New World.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
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The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
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Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Annette Samuels, caught between classes
Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard MagazineAnnette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
The Kupermans choreographed the 2019 musical Alice By Heart, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland set during the London Blitz
Photograph by Deen Van MeerThe brothers Kuperman—choreographers, directors, and storytellers
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The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
Photograph by Binita PatelThe Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
Provincetown’s winter harbor
Photograph by Age Fotostock/Alamy Stock PhotoJust enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
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Curtis McMullen's prints hang in the Science Center lobby.
Photograph by Drew PendergrassA Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
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Memorial Church
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What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
The Kupermans choreographed the 2019 musical Alice By Heart, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland set during the London Blitz
Photograph by Deen Van MeerThe brothers Kuperman—choreographers, directors, and storytellers
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Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin
Robert L. Scalise
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsSexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
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This year's Campus Services holiday breakfast featured a "plant-forward" station.
Photograph by Robert Fitta/Harvard MagazineEnd-of-semester news and fun from around campus
At left: The field team included (from left) Asah, Naban, Ashton (note his indispensable leech socks), and Ladi.
Photograph by Timothy Whitmore/Courtesy of Peter Ashton and Arnoldia.Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending
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September-October 2002
Letters
"Ask me what College class I was in," says Harvard Alumni Association president Charles L. Brock, "and I have to admit I don't...
The College Pump
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Treasure
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In this Issue
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Supporters of the reauthorization, last January, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act hail it for tightening school accountability...
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In 1997, one of the blue-chip icons of corporate America, AT&T, was in trouble and seeking a new leader. The company was operating in a...
"To me [my room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure and the...
"...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come for thoroughly equipped...
Letters
"Ask me what College class I was in," says Harvard Alumni Association president Charles L. Brock, "and I have to admit I don't...
Right Now
Until recently, teenage violence was widely considered a deplorable and tragic phenomenon of inner cities. Experts linked childhood aggression...
Their names—and their respective tragedies—are now a part of the American lexicon: Littleton, Colorado; Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro...
A fishing boat in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Just 12 years ago, an astounded world looked on as McDonald's served its...
If obesity were a symbol of success, the United States would be a boomtown on the frontier of flab. But excess fat isn't a measure of...
John Harvard's Journal
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Every time a Harvard office hires an architect, designer, or planner—and that happens frequently—plans and maps and other kinds of...
Almost unnoticed, much of the University's scholarly work has migrated from departments and individual professors' offices to...
Residents bordering Harvard have turned building projects into political battlegrounds. Below, a Harvard rejoinder. More than five...
When the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) was disbanded in 2000, it meant the disappearance of the University's largest...
Laura Justine Garwin Photograph by Stu Rosner After trumpeting with Harvard's jazz, concert, and marching bands, the Bach Society...
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Nothing exceeds like success. Last summer, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) installed some new exercise equipment, completely refurbishing its...
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Spirits of the Law Since January 1999, when then-provost Harvey V. Fineberg promulgated it, Harvard's policy has been to prohibit...
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Alumni
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As captain of the USS John F. Kennedy, patroling the north Arabian Sea, Ronald H. Henderson Jr. '76 has been directly involved in the American...
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The College Pump
I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time...
Treasure
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