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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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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
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
Provincetown’s winter harbor
Photograph by Age Fotostock/Alamy Stock PhotoJust enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....
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President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
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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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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
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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.
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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November-December 2011
Letters
Harvard @375, Mary Berenson, energy options, colleges in crisis, and more
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its uniquely long survival
An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.
Letters
Harvard @375, Mary Berenson, energy options, colleges in crisis, and more
Right Now
Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.
Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.
George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.
New England Regional
New England Dance Resources
John Harvard's Journal
The Mahindra Humanities Center erects eight “poetry posts” to prompt reflection about loss and recovery.
The Allston Work Team's development recommendations have been endorsed by the Harvard Corporation.
The College redistributes aid among lower- and higher-income undergraduates, and introduces a new family financial-planning tool.
Headlines from Harvard's history
Dean Michael D. Smith presents his draft annual report: budget, faculty growth, and more
The newly minted McArthur University Professor co-directs the Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard Business School.
Divinity School dean William A. Graham steps down, Nobel Prizes awarded to seven alumni, Dumbarton Oaks’ expansion, MacArthur Fellows announced, and other Harvard news.
An undergraduate travels to Namibia in the hope that, by flinging herself to a faraway place, she will figure things out.
Montage
The documentary film "Foreign Parts" explores Willets Point, a vanishing junkyard neighborhood in Queens.
Erin Wade's Vinaigrette salad bistro serves organic, home-grown greens in Santa Fe.
Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden review recent U.S. economic woes in the context of the “capital flow cycle.”
Meredith James '04 creates surrealist videos and sculptures that challenge perceptions.
Gordon S. Wood on the birth of the United States, Steven Pinker on declining violence, Jack M. Balkin on "Living Originalism," and a dozen others whose recent books have Harvard connections
Alumni
The class of 1971 reflects on the coeducational living experiment.
Anne Douglas ’12, of Adams House, and Marcel Moran ’11, of Eliot House, are the 2011 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.
Seven alumni received Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards in 2011.
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize outstanding service to the University through alumni activities.
Alumni join in to help British filmmaker Elizabeth McKay with her forthcoming documentary, ”Harvard at Chanzeaux: A Tribute to Laurence Wylie.”
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café in Boulder, Colorado, sells beverages, pastries, and poetry—nothing else.
"No Look Pass," a documentary film about Harvard basketball player Emily Tay ’08, was written, produced, and directed by Melissa Johnson ’00.
Two alumnae travel across America to distribute socks and document the plight of homeless youths.
News from Shared Interest Groups
The Boxing Club aims to build an alumni network.
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