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Professor Charles Lieber in his lab at 12 Oxford Street
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The pioneering chemist of bio-compatible transistors and other nanoscale wonders receives Harvard's highest faculty honor.
Cafe Algiers in Harvard Square
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Havard Public Affairs and Communcations
Another independent business has been forced to leave the Square.
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Professor Charles Lieber in his lab at 12 Oxford Street
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The pioneering chemist of bio-compatible transistors and other nanoscale wonders receives Harvard's highest faculty honor.
Andrew Womack excavating within kiln at Qijiaping in excavation unit T1 on May 15, 2017.
Photograph by Rowan Flad
Field notes from a summer archaeological expedition
Photograph by Zmeel Photography /iStock
Berkman Klein researchers find censorship of Wikipedia is declining.
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College students collaborate on tech projects at HackHarvard.
Courtesy of Major League Hacking
On the draws and limitations of college hackathons
Membership in any and all unrecognized student social organizations would be prohibited.
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From left: Sam (Annie Parisse), Nick (Nat Faxon), Ethan (Keegan-Michael Key), Lisa (Cobie Smulders), Marianne (Jae Suh Park), Max (Fred Savage), and Felix (Billy Eichner)
Photograph by David Lee/Netflix
The real tragedy underlying Friends from College stems from the indignities of the post-recession economy.
Tracy K. Smith
Photograph © Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The announcement comes at a busy time for the writer, who is at work on two operas and will soon publish her fifth verse collection, Wade in the Water.
Fred Glimp in Massachusetts Hall, 1996
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The long-serving dean and vice president was a proud member of the College’s “Great Middle Class.”
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A summer exhibit at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (above) highlights abstract art…
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Lincoln offers rich history, nature trails, local food, and art.
End of the Line, Cleveland Circle (2012), by Kate Sullivan
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A Boston Athenaeum print exhibit reveals “a distinctive sense of place.”
Lone paddlers take in the sunset
Photograph courtesy of UMass Lowell Kayak Center
Paddling the Merrimack in Lowell and Lawrence
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College students collaborate on tech projects at HackHarvard.
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On the draws and limitations of college hackathons
Readers comment on linguistics and sign language, academic class gaps, “Fair Harvard,” final clubs, and more.
President Drew Faust
President Drew Faust on scientific research and federal funding
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The entrance to the Naples Conservatory retains its former title, “Royal Conservatory.”
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A day at the Naples Conservatory
From left: Sam (Annie Parisse), Nick (Nat Faxon), Ethan (Keegan-Michael Key), Lisa (Cobie Smulders), Marianne (Jae Suh Park), Max (Fred Savage), and Felix (Billy Eichner)
Photograph by David Lee/Netflix
The real tragedy underlying Friends from College stems from the indignities of the post-recession economy.
The renovated Wimbledon House
Photograph by Iwan Baan
The Graduate of School of Design opens its renovated Wimbledon House.
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Post-Title IX, more women have entered competitive sports like basketball.
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How Title IX expanded women’s opportunities in sports
Lone paddlers take in the sunset
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Paddling the Merrimack in Lowell and Lawrence
Jade Miller
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Illustration by Mark Steele
The 1932 solar eclipse, the Naval Training School, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Stephen Peabody, 1809, by John Johnston
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The diary of a “unexceptional collegian”—attending class, or not
The Radcliffe Institute’s garden oasis
Photograph by Thomas Earle/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
“Fair Harvard,” liberal arts Soviet-style, campus oases, and more
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Debbie Bial
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The Posse Foundation aims to develop a “national leadership network.”
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This 1939 acetate disc of Ezra Pound’s full recording bears a handwritten annotation that reads “’Altaforte’ not to be played” and scratch marks to prevent the poem from being played accidentally.
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A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
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March-April 2017
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston
In this Issue
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
Henry Knowles Beecher, 1950.
Photograph by Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
The flowers of Rafflesia arnoldii are the largest in the world.
Photograph by Jeremy Holden
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
Justice Stephen Breyer
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
Right Now
Illustration by Pete Ryan
Gidon Eshel explains the environmental, social, and political effects of food choices.
Illustration by Stuart Bradford
Scientists think they may have an answer.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Traditional methods of preventing suicide have been ineffective, says psychologist Matthew Nock.
Harvard Squared
Restorative scenes: Most Star Island visitors stay at the historic Oceanic House, overlooking lawns and the harbor.
Photograph by Sean D. Elliot
Wild beauty and meaningful retreats on New Hampshire’s Star Island
American Dream, by Sarah Thomas
Courtesy of World of WearableArt Limited
Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.
An iron lung, used to treat polio, that was manufactured by J.H. Emerson Co., in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/NPB
Artifacts used to fight American epidemics, at the Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Walnut Grille tends toward towering dishes and fanciful presentations.
Photograph courtesy of Walnut Grille
Expanding vegetarian dining options in Greater Boston
John Harvard's Journal
The right stuff: Freshman point guard Katie Benzan, shown shooting in the home opener against Maine, led the Harvard women’s basketball team in minutes played and points scored per game through January, helping to spark 16 consecutive wins—tying the longest such streak in Crimson basketball history and raising hopes for an Ivy League championship.
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Basketball teams pursue Ivy League tournament titles.
New leadership begins sweeping change, attempting to improve persistent underperformance.
On the agenda: challenges to endowments and philanthropy
Broadening the debate on Harvard’s single-gender social organizations
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scholar of race, justice, and public policy
Illustration by Mark Steele
A morgue for movies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
A change at Harvard University Press, and more
Illustration by Anthony Freda
The Undergraduate considers campus debate and action in a polarized era.
Martha Minow
Photograph by Ken Richardson
The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more
Ted Minnis is Harvard’s winningest water polo coach—his path to Blodgett Pool included a few detours and sharp turns.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Ted Minnis makes Harvard an East Coast power in a West Coast sport.
Harvard’s Ryan Donato rushes toward the net in the November game that broke Boston College’s win streak.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Hockey, squash, swimming and diving: winter sports in brief
Montage
Documentarian Kent Garrett ’63 returned to Harvard last fall for a screening of his work.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential
Archaic Paestum—the “beginning” of beauty
Photograph by iStock
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Elif Batuman
Photograph by Beowolf Sheehan
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
Before writing anything down, Robert Kyr composes his works—music and text—“internally,” he says, from start to finish.
Photograph by Kelly James Photography
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Windermere, 1821, by Joseph M.W. Turner, in the spirit of Wordsworth
Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Elizabeth Bishop: the poet at ease, in 1954
Photograph ©The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Alumni
Shannon Liss-Riordan
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.
The 2017 slates
Harvard celebrates its volunteer alumni leaders.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston