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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.
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.
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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.
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Photograph by Joan Marcus“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater
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John Christian Anderson’s Sacrificial Lamb
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Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton
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President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
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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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What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
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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
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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.
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July-August 2003
Letters
SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
Treasure
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...
In this Issue
A vibrant democracy depends upon important foundations: adequate socioeconomic conditions, elite commitment, some consensus within the society...
Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraq amassed about $100 billion in debt. This estimate is rough, and it will be months before the details about...
Science is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often...
"I have not wandered very far afield," wrote Henry Francis du Pont, A.B. 1903, in his fiftieth reunion report. With characteristic...
Lehner’s front photogrammetric elevation of the Great Sphinx. Below: As seen in a north elevation, weathered limestone and bedrock form the Sphinx’s head and upper body. Photogrammetric elevations by Mark Lehner
Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.
Humberto started to pace back and forth across the floor of the cinder-block home, cradling his son in his arms. There had to be a story. In...
Letters
SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...
Right Now
Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. Ironically...
Imagine: A complete stranger promises a brand-new digital camera if you'll send $100. Once the check clears, you're told, the camera will be in...
A century ago, psychoanalysts declared that the human personality was largely fixed by age five. More recently, biologically oriented...
The 1995 truck bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City hastened a revolution in urban design and planning. Architectural terms...
When Monet's Impression Sunrise, a sensuous if sleepy painting of Le Havre's harbor, debuted in 1874, it enraged critics. They abhorred the...
New England Regional
Last fall, World War II veteran Lawrence Lader '41 and several octogenarian Harvard classmates marched in uniform in front of the White House to...
Long before it became a fraternity of the atrociously behaved and was taken out behind the barn and shot, the Pi Eta Speakers Club occupied a...
John Harvard's Journal
One might have anticipated that the volumes of talk from Harvard podiums during Commencement week, so soon after the smoke cleared in Baghdad...
Two women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 352nd Commencement. In the absence of a University marshal, Provost Steven Hyman...
Mather House seniors, from left, Samantha Goodwin, of Freeburg, Illinois; Jordan Goss, of Arlington, Texas; Paul Kwak, of Beavercreek...
VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary degrees, and 290 certificates at its 352nd Commencement. Diplomas went...
I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when I arrived in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh...
We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939." Perhaps you've heard it...
(as prepared for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty appointments...
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, A.M. '62, was the recipient of the 2003 Radcliffe Medal and gave an address at the Radcliffe Association annual...
Elena Kagan, J.D. '86, once a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and later an adviser on domestic policy issues to President...
When Harvard purchased land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) in 2000, it was an historic moment: for the first time, the...
Much more aggressive education, a new office to provide "the first line of support" to students with concerns about sexual violence...
Robert M Gogan, Jr. Photograph by Stu Rosner Rob Gogan is Harvard's recycling and waste-management impresario. "It's a dream job,"...
Masters in the House(s) Jay and Cheryl Harris Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Service Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis announced on...
The newly merged offices of dean of Harvard College and dean of undergraduate education have been entrusted to Benedict H. Gross '71, Ph.D. '78...
The data—or at least some data—are now in on the effects of Harvard's new Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) for custodial...
Baker Library is empty of its books, staff, and readers. It is doing business elsewhere, at several locations both on and off the Business...
Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers delivered this year's Edwin...
In creating a diverse portfolio for Harvard's $17.5-billion endowment, the University's investment arm, Harvard Management Company (HMC)...
Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. One way to trace emerging fields is...
Dental Doings Dave Destroche Three decades and more after its 11,000-square-foot “interim” building was created, the Harvard...
Alumni
She made a high-energy but graceful entrance, nothing too theatrical, sat in a director's chair at a butcherblock coffee table in this...
Harvard Medalists Three alumni received the Harvard Medal and were publicly honored for their extraordinary service by President Lawrence H...
June 4 marked what its president, Raine Figueroa '84, M.B.A. '91, said was the last formal annual meeting of the Radcliffe Association (RA)...
Harvardians journeying to the north side of San Antonio—the "Texas Hill Country"—may need only look skyward for a familiar...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
Treasure
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...