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Melinda Gates
Photograph courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationThe philanthropist will highlight Radcliffe Day during Harvard’s Commencement week.
Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, chair of the Harvard Alumni Association Committee to Nominate Overseers and Elected Directors, and Philip Lovejoy, HAA executive director
Photographs: Courtesy of Tracy P. Palandjian and Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni AssociationOn the eve of a contested election for the governing board, looking under the hood of the nominating process
Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch will be one of several Harvard scientists collaborating with Chinese colleagues to fight SARS-CoV-2
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As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
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Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch will be one of several Harvard scientists collaborating with Chinese colleagues to fight SARS-CoV-2
Photograph by Kent Dayton
As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
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(1 of 5) Edwin Olsen and Blake Clark, The Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston, Decorative and Historical, 1926
Map courtesy of the Harvard Map CollectionAn exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.
Caroline Tervo ’18 researched North Carolina politics—at the local craft brewery, at Olive Garden, and at IHOP.
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsUndergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
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Elizabeth Banks smiled and waved to the crowd along the parade route.
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/KDElizabeth Banks and Ben Platt received this year’s honors.
Caroline Tervo ’18 researched North Carolina politics—at the local craft brewery, at Olive Garden, and at IHOP.
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsUndergraduates contribute to a new book on grass-roots organizing at the center of American politics.
A professor arrested, gift-giving guidelines, and an update on the graduate-student union
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Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, chair of the Harvard Alumni Association Committee to Nominate Overseers and Elected Directors, and Philip Lovejoy, HAA executive director
Photographs: Courtesy of Tracy P. Palandjian and Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni AssociationOn the eve of a contested election for the governing board, looking under the hood of the nominating process
Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch will be one of several Harvard scientists collaborating with Chinese colleagues to fight SARS-CoV-2
Photograph by Kent Dayton
As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
Ken Liu
Photograph © Lisa Tang LiuKen Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
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At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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Contra dancing, Balkan music, sea chanteys—and more!
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
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Photograph © Lisa Tang LiuKen Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
At The Homestead
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
Courtesy of the Bruce Museum
Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Are you eligible to carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?
Matt “Happy” Gilmore smiles behind the wheel. Zamboni-driving takes focus, but Gilmore says that he loves waving to children in the crowd and making their day.
Photograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice
Mind the net: Sophomore goalie Lindsay Reed, flanked by teammates Ali Peper (13) and Nicki Lutschaunig (12), homes in on a speeding puck during a January win against Union College. Last year, Reed averaged more than 30 saves per game.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletics CommunicationsThe many saves of a six-foot goalie
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At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Are you eligible to carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?
Samuel Eliot Morison
Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty ImagesMorison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
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July-August 2016
Letters
Readers respond to articles on robots, final clubs, comparing campuses, and more.
President Faust writes about Harvardians’ tradition of military service.
How Harvard might discuss liberal-arts education more fruitfully
The College Pump
The long-gone Dudley Gate, caught with no hands on its clock
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Semitic Museum
“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum
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Franklinia alatamaha
Photograph by Jon Hetman/The Arnold Arboretum
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
In this 1835 portrait by Charles Osgood, Bowditch sits with the first two volumes of his Mécanique Céleste translation, as a bust of Laplace looks on.
Image © 2006 Peabody Essex Museum/Photograph by Mark Sexton
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
Leonard speaking at the most recent Sundance Film Festival, where he served on the jury
Photograph by Andrew Toth/Getty Images
Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine
Photographs clockwise from top left: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images; Laura Buckman/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images; David McNew/AFP/Getty Images; Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images; Joe Raedle/Getty Images
How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics
Letters
Readers respond to articles on robots, final clubs, comparing campuses, and more.
President Faust writes about Harvardians’ tradition of military service.
How Harvard might discuss liberal-arts education more fruitfully
Right Now
Illustration by Dan Page
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.
Illustration by Michael Witte
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
Illustration by Chris Madden
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.
Harvard Squared
The evocative entrance to Winslow Farm Sanctuary
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Debra White built the Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary in Norton, Massachusetts.
The saunas are steps from Furnace Pond, where a raft beckons swimmers.
Photograph by James Ahola
The benefits of sweating at a traditional Finnish sauna in Pembroke, Massachusetts
An early illustration by Winslow Homer, now on display in Belmont.
Image courtesy of the 1853 Homer House
A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.
The dining room, although refined and calm, could use a splash of warmth from the upstairs lounge.
Photograph by Wayne E. Chinnock/Courtesy of Parsnip
Parsnip restaurant is a handsome replacement for Upstairs on the Square.
John Harvard's Journal
Law School graduates flaunt their profession’s symbol of authority.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.
Back row from left: Arnold Rampersad, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, El Anatsui, Elaine Fuchs, and Martin Rees. Front row from left: David Brion Davis, Stephen Spielberg, President Drew Faust, Mary L. Bonauto, Provost Alan Garber, and Judith J. Thomson Photograph by Stu Rosner
The honorands of 2016
Steven Spielberg
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others
Rashida Jones
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Speakers making funny at the 365th Commencement
Joshuah Brian Campbell
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more
From left: Nitin Nohria and Francis J. Doyle III
From left: Photograph ©Susan Young/Harvard Business School;
Photograph by Eliza Grinell/School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Amid an Allston building boom, the first new academic ties between Harvard Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
College classes will cross the Charles.
How to improve class scheduling—now, and when College classes cross the Charles River for the new engineering complex in Allston.
Dustin Tingley Photograph by Jim Harrison
Political scientist Dustin Tingley studies the politics of everyday life.
New Currier House faculty deans Latanya Sweeney and Sylvia Barrett with their son, Leonard
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Currier House chiefs, Harvard College Professors, top teachers, and more
Congressional inquiry reveals insights into Harvard's endowment-management costs, financial aid, and other schools' policies.
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Members of all-female social clubs protest against new sanctions on single-gender organizations.
Photograph by Kit Wu/The Harvard Crimson
Final-club sanctions, a new Corporation member, medical conflicts of interest, MIT capital campaign, and improving student writing
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Slaves at Harvard, an early-childhood education initiative at HGSE, Air Force ROTC returns, climate change, the Extension School, and more
Illustration by Eric Hanson
Pre-Commencement, the Undergraduate assesses his unfinished works.
Sprinters Gabby Thomas (left) and Ngozi Musa are teammates, close competitors, and best friends.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
First-years Ngozi Musa and Gabby Thomas help set the pace for track and field.
Montage
Elizabeth Claire Walker in “Arabian Dance” from The Nutcracker
Photograph by Reed Hutchinson/Los Angeles Ballet
A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls
Tsurumi at work in her studio
Image courtesy of Andrea Tsurumi
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
A star is born (in glass): a juvenile common sea star, Asterias rubens.
Photograph by Guido Mocafico/Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Ireland
Recent books with Harvard connections
An iconic motif: Aeneas and the Sibyl (at upper left) in the Underworld, c.1530 (a plaque with enamel and gold on copper)
Image from the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom / Bridgeman Images
A new translation from the Aeneid
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Commercial fisherman Russell Sherman still admires the fishermen he worked for in his early days: “Strong, and strong-willed, independent men. Most were veterans of World War II, and had been through a lot—they had tremendous work ethic. And I wanted nothing but to earn their respect.”
Photograph by Stu Rosner
How Gloucester’s Russell Sherman got hooked
Top row from left: Thomas G. Everett and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. Bottom row from left: John H. McArthur and Betsey Bradley Urschel
Photograph by Stu Rosner
For “extraordinary service to the University”
The four winners will begin study in the other Cambridge this fall.
Ruth Rabb and Leon Starr
Photographs by Jim Harrison
The oldest graduates at Commencement
From left: John O’Malley, Cecilia Rouse, David Mumford, and Francis Fukuyama
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo/Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study
Candidates nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association drew the most votes.
Megan White Mukuria and her tools
Image courtesy of ZanaAfrica
An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens
Forward-turned-author Bill Keenan
Photograph courtesy of Bill Keenan and Skyhorse Publishing
The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan
The College Pump
The long-gone Dudley Gate, caught with no hands on its clock
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Semitic Museum
“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum