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Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicaitonsThe new dean has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
Image courtesy of Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
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The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
Image courtesy of Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
Karen Dynan
Photograph courtesy of Karen DynanThe severe economic fallout, in context
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
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“We are the generation that is coming of age in the COVID-19 crisis,” writes Lauren Spohn ’20. “We can we build? What can we sacrifice? What risks can we take?”
Professor and platform: William C. Kirby logs on to Zoom from home for his first remote teaching session.
On taking a Harvard Gen Ed class remotely with William C. Kirby
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
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Loeb House, where the University's governing boards meet
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe coronavirus pandemic threatened to disenfranchise alumni balloting.
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
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
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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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Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
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“We are the generation that is coming of age in the COVID-19 crisis,” writes Lauren Spohn ’20. “We can we build? What can we sacrifice? What risks can we take?”
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
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“What will it mean to end our time on this campus with no closure, no time to reflect on what it all meant?”
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Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
Ken Liu
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
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2020 Ivy foil champion Geoffrey Tourette '21 celebrates a point.
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A focus on process leads Harvard fencers to an Ivy championship.
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.
Photograph courtesy of Judy Goodhue
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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
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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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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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May-June 2017
Letters
Readers comment on Houghton Library, coddled campuses, labor law, and more.
President Faust on the value of Harvard’s non-degree programs
A state’s pension-plan problems highlight the endowment challenge to realizing Harvard’s goals.
The College Pump
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Illustration by Michael Witte
Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.
In this Issue
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The chasm between elite academia and working-class Americans—and how to bridge it
A portrait of Yellow Wolf circa 1909
Photograph from The Library of Congress
Brief life of a Native American witness to history: c. 1855-1935
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Recreating the Philosophy Chamber
Kathryn Davidson discusses her research
Photograph by Jim Harrison
How linguists use sign languages to understand universal grammar
Letters
Readers comment on Houghton Library, coddled campuses, labor law, and more.
President Faust on the value of Harvard’s non-degree programs
A state’s pension-plan problems highlight the endowment challenge to realizing Harvard’s goals.
Right Now
Illustration by Whooli Chen
Distraction seems to be the aim of a massive government campaign of fake social media posts.
Illustration by Jude Buffum
Patterns of gene expression that appear to be inherited from one generation to the next are instead explained by in-utero exposures.
Illustration by Paul Lachine
Do workplace environments contribute to poor health for employees?
Harvard Squared
The Asa Gray Garden honors the Harvard botanist
Courtesy of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Springtime at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Steampunk style merges “neo-Victorian fashion with retro-futuristic technology.”
Photograph by Bobbi Lane
Steampunk Festival celebrates art and history in Waltham, Massachusetts
Barry Van Dusen’s barn swallow (nesting at Stone Barn Farm)
Courtesy of Barry Van Dusen
A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum
The Brookline birthplace of John F. Kennedy
Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service, John F. Kennedy National Historic Site
Centennial celebrations for John F. Kennedy in Brookline
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Flour’s baked treats
Photograph by Kristin Tieg/Flour
Harvard Square’s caffeine and calories—galore!
John Harvard's Journal
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Photograph by Jim Harrison
The Charles River, lit
The College’s social-club sanctions remain highly controversial.
Stephan Magro
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A miracle-working Commencement director
Still more construction projects on tap
Financial pressures force the faculty to trim doctoral admissions.
The Business School dean is bullish on engineering and data-science collaborations, and online learning.
Online learning, evolving at Harvard and beyond, attracts critical analysis.
David Parkes and Francesca Dominici, co-directors of Harvard’s new data-science initiative
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC
Harvard outlines steps toward a data-science institute in Allston.
Illustration by Mark Steele
An elephant race, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Maya Jasanoff (see “Writers’ Rewards,” below)
Photography by Rose Lincoln/HPAC
Dunster departure, graduate-school deans, faculty writing-prize winners, and more
Mark Zuckerberg
Photograph courtesy of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg drops in, Justice Scalia’s papers, dental-school milestone, and more
Illustration by Daniel Baxter
The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process.
Far from Missouri: Nomin-Erdene Jagdagdorj on the choppy, cold Charles with skipper Nicholas Karnovsky ’19
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Harvard sailor, a long way from landlocked Mongolia and Missouri
Katie Benzan ’20 was a first-team All-Ivy honoree and led the team in scoring (13.4 points per game) and assists (4.2 assists per game).
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Seesaw seasons for the basketball teams
In the momentum-building Beanpot victory: Crimson forward Alexander Kerfoot skates against Boston University.
Photograph by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Strong seasons in hockey, fencing, and swimming
Montage
Choreographer Claudia Schreier, in rehearsal
Photograph by Rosalie O’Connor
A choreographer's career, taking shape
Willa Cather, finance expert
Photograph courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society
A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.
Justin Lee
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Justin Lee's essential, “invisible,” work at the Harvard Art Museums
The Vineyard’s south shore, from the Wequobsque Cliffs to Lucy Vincent Beach: inviting—and endangered
Photograph by David R. Foster
A natural history of Martha’s Vineyard, and other books with Harvard connections
A Conservative Party poster, circa 1900, the year the precursor of the Labour Party first participated in a general election
Poster from Getty Images
Scholarly lessons from Europe prove pertinent today.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
James Bundy, on the Assassins set
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A look at James Bundy ’81, dean of the Yale School of Drama
Overseers and HAA director candidates
The College Pump
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Illustration by Michael Witte
Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more
Treasure
Image courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.