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A Radcliffe Institute panel examines the protest movement against police violence and structural racism.
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
Martin Baron
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Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies
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A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality
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How to plan your staycation summer
Sofra's fresh-baked raspberry-rose jam turnovers
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Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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Strict lines in the sand
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January-February 2016
Letters
Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research
Readers respond to articles on football, sexual assault, the Social Progress Index, divestment, and more.
A letter from President Faust about Harvard Law School
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
The College Pump
Illustration by Missy Chimovitz, from the book
Channeling Valentine’s Day—and sustainable oceans—via sexy sea creatures
Treasure
The chandelier ablaze
Photograph by Jim Harrison
In Sanders Theatre, a “constellation” of a chandelier
In this Issue
Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrive at Lesbos, Greece, from Turkey, on October 15, 2015.
Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Harvard human-rights expert Jacqueline Bhabha critiques the inadequate response to the world’s migration crises.
Cora Du Bois in 1948
Photograph courtesy of the Tozzer Library, Harvard University. Cora Alice Du Bois Papers
Brief life of a formidable anthropologist: 1903-1991
Richard Posner
Photograph by John Gress/Corbis Images
The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer
Dr. James O’Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
Photograph by Jim Harrison
James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.
Letters
Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research
Readers respond to articles on football, sexual assault, the Social Progress Index, divestment, and more.
A letter from President Faust about Harvard Law School
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
Right Now
Illustration by Dave Plunkert
New thinking machines demand a new economic science.
The lung-on-a-chip mimics the mechanical and biochemical behaviors of the human organ.
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
The Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips could transform drug testing and personalized medicine.
American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
James M. Thresher/Washington Post/Getty Images
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
Harvard Squared
Buds, blossoms, and a hothouse of tropical trees brighten winter days at Tower Hill Botanic Garden.
Photograph Courtesy of Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Tower Hill Botanic Garden’s “Month of Flowers”
<p class="caption">Scenes from Wendy Jehlen’s “Movement Exploration” class</p><p class="credit">Photograph by Bill Parsons/Maximal Image®</p>
A long-time Cambridge arts organization is poised to grow.
Fruitlands Museum’s hills and trails are opent to hardy souls of all ages eager to bundle up and play in nature.
Photograph courtesy of Fruitlands Museum
Sledding, Nordic skiing, and art at Fruitlands Museum, in Harvard, Massachusetts
Julie Atlas Muz and Tony Torn bare (almost) all in portraying power-hungry aspiring royalty.
Photograph by Max Basch/ART
A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi
<p class="caption">Chef Jason Martin extols the art of pasta-making at Dave's Fresh Pasta.</p><p class="credit">Photograph by Nell Porter Brown</p>
Greater Boston’s classes for aspiring and amateur cooks
John Harvard's Journal
The central diorama, a model of New England’s waters
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A lively exhibit debuts at the Museum of Natural History.
Thomas Hollister, vice president for finance, and Paul J. Finnegan, University treasurer Photographs from left: Paige Brown/Courtesy Tufts Medical Center and Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The University's annual financial report
Stephen Blyth
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard Management Company makes extensive changes to enhance investment performance.
Constrained growth in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Alan M. Garber
Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
The provost on the prospects for Harvard’s MOOCs, and other developments in teaching and learning
Yosvany Terry
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A well-traveled Afro-Cuban jazz musician lands at Harvard.
Martha Minow
Martha Stewart/Courtesy of Harvard Law School
Updates on The Harvard Campaign
Francis J. Doyle III
Photograph by Eliza Grinnell/Courtesy of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SEAS dean Frank Doyle shares insights.
Henry Rosovsky
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A tribute to Henry Rosovsky from Harvard Magazine
College race debates reach Harvard, admissions adjudication, again, the launch of the Harvard Global Institute, and General Education revisited
Illustration by Mark Steele
With fond admiration to Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Jeffrey S. Flier
Photograph by John Soares/Harvard Medical School
Medical dean stepping down, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, more conservative Winthrop House addition, and more
Illustration by Chris Beatrice
Learning “what it means to be a walking disruption”
Despite the efforts of Yale linebacker Victor Egu, Crimson quarterback Scott Hosch ’16 managed a flip to freshman receiver Justice Shelton-Mosley, who took the ball the rest of the way. The 35-yard touchdown gave Harvard a 14-7 second-quarter lead in The Game.
Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
A fine finish to a nearly flawless football season
Montage
Carlton Cuse with a young Norman Bates (played by Freddie Highmore) on the set of Bates Motel
Photograph courtesy of Carlton Cuse
Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Richard Henry Dana Jr. in 1842
From Two Years Before the Mast (Houghton Mifflin Co,.1911)
How Richard Henry Dana Jr. came to hate slavery and injustice
Lei Liang
Photograph by Alex Matthews/Courtesy of Lei Liang
After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.
The mambo, danced professionally in New York City, 1954
Yale Joel/Life Magazine/Getty Images
Recent books cover the origins of mambo, American economic growth, cancer, landscape, and more
Tania James
Melissa Stewart/Courtesy of Tania James
A writer balances structure and spontaneity in her latest novel.
Alumni
Anthony Acciavatti beside the lake in Central Park, a body of water closer to home
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
A decade spent exploring India’s dynamic sacred river
Ruth Kevess-Cohen
Photograph courtesy of David Cohen
Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.
The College Pump
Illustration by Missy Chimovitz, from the book
Channeling Valentine’s Day—and sustainable oceans—via sexy sea creatures
Treasure
The chandelier ablaze
Photograph by Jim Harrison
In Sanders Theatre, a “constellation” of a chandelier