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Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1.
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
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A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
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What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
Illustration by Dave Cutler
Corporate reports contain clues to predicting a firm’s future performance.
Illustration by David Plunkert
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
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After missing the first few games of the 2019 season with a concussion, Skinner has been among the Ivy League leaders in on-base percentage.
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For speedy center fielder Ben Skinner, slowing down is key.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
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A personal story about caregiving and empathy
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
Photograph by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
Accidental comics writer Amy Chu
Image courtesy of Amy ChuGraphic novelist Amy Chu
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
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Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Poster courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Ephemera Collection (AR.EP.PS.0669)Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
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Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
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Brief life of a theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
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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
In this Issue
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