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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The decorated author is best known for her novels and feminist writing.
Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Ladder faculty counts in the the faculty of arts and sciences, 1998 to 2017
Courtesy of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity
Progress and barriers to diversifying Harvard’s faculty
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Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
From left: Courtesy of Stanley Shaw and Deborah Schrag
Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
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Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
The son and nephew of MLB players, Quinn Hoffman ’20 has played the game for as long as he can remember.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
For Quinn Hoffman, baseball is the family business.
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Hanna Holborn Gray
Photograph courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
Sellers at the John Brown Fort, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatric
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
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The National Black Doll Museum
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Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
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The National Black Doll Museum
Mara Sidmore, artistic director of Applied Theatre Practice at the Bok Center
Photograph by Jim HarrisonA theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Late winter and early spring highlights
Seth Towns ’20, the Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a game-high 24 points in the Crimson’s 74-55 victory over Cornell in the Ivy tournament semifinals.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
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David Davidson
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A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
Illustration by Michael Witte
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
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Jim and Deb Fallows in his hometown, Redlands, California
Photograph by Coco McKown
James and Deborah Fallows explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
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September-October 2017
Letters
Readers comment further on “Fair Harvard,” teaching the liberal arts, celebrity and politics, the middle class, and more.
President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search
The College Pump
Memorial Hall burning in September 1956—with flames beyond the reach of firefighting apparatus
Photograph by William Simon
A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire
Treasure
The volume’s front cover features a needle-painted portrait of the young prince Charles Stuart.
Photographs by Jim Harrison/Object courtesy of the Houghton Library
Embroidery fit for a prince
In this Issue
Carl Thorne-Thomsen in high school (with fellow student-council member Linda Jones Docherty)
Photograph from Lake Forest High School 1964 Yearbook/Courtesy of Linda Docherty
Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967
To simply say that the White Cliffs of Dover are made of chalk would miss the point of Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World. The chalk giving the famous cliffs their white appearance was formed from the exoskeletons of plated marine microbes called coccolithophores.
All images from Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World, by Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter. Copyright ©2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
On Earth, microbes run the show.
Photograph by iStock Images
Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
Letters
Readers comment further on “Fair Harvard,” teaching the liberal arts, celebrity and politics, the middle class, and more.
President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search
Right Now
A surgical technique designed to preserve proprioceptive signals after amputation should allow patients to sense the location of their prostheses, feedback that is often compromised by convential surgery.
Image courtesy of Shriya Srinivasan
Improved surgical techniques enhance prosthetic function.
Illustration By Doug Panton
The combination of certain factors can determine whether a city is plagued with disease, or is a hub for innovation.
Harvard Squared
The village grew up around the Meeting House, built in 1792.
Photograph by Alamy Stock Images
The Canterbury Shakers’ enduring appeal
A view of the State House dome and downtown’s towers, from the Charles River
Courtesy of the Charles Riverboat Company
Boat tours of architectural gems
World’s End offers stunning views of Hingham Harbor…
Courtesy of the Trustees of Reservations
A day trip to Hingham
Branch Line, which pairs fresh fare with craft beers on tap, has transformed part of an historic building at the former Watertown Arsenal.
Photograph by Melissa Ostrow
Branch Line serves brasserie-style fare in an historic Watertown setting
John Harvard's Journal
Assembling the science and engineering complex in Allston (with work on the district energy plant distantly visible to the rear of the site)
Image from the SEAS Construction Cam
A campus construction program of unprecedented proportions
President Drew Faust
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
President Faust’s exit timetable, and the search for her successor
HarvardX project leader April Opoliner with Kolokotrones professor of biostatistics and epidemiology Miguel Hernán and teaching assistant Barbra Dickerman
Photograph by Stu Rosner
HarvardX transforms a popular course in epidemiology to serve a global audience.
Sunil Amrith
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The Bay of Bengal is central for this South Asia scholar.
A Harvard committee proposes eliminating unsanctioned student social organizations.
Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.
Illustration by Mark Steele
A Channel first, a voluntary U.S. history exam, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Harvard’s business and engineering faculties join forces on a new technology-design degree—before they co-locate in Allston.
George Andreou
Photograph by Michael Lionstar
New University Press director, new University Professor, changing Harvard Square, and more
Illustration by Rebecca Clarke
The Undergraduate contemplates cycles in college friendships.
Natasha Lasky and Tawanda Mulalu
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Tjerk van Herwaarden
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Under coach Tjerk van Herwaarden, Harvard field hockey ascends.
Montage
Though songwriter Dan Wilson mostly stays out of the spotlight these days…
Photograph by Devin Pedde
The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.
The young Rachel Carson (1940); Abraham Lincoln, wearied by the Civil War (1864); and the Endurance in the crushing grip of polar ice
From Left: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Library of Congress (2)
The Business School’s Nancy Koehn analyzes the personal stakes that propel leaders.
Ensemble members reminisce in Party People, about the Black Panthers and Young Lords.
Photograph by Jenny Graham
Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”
The artist as master colorist: Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat (Femme au Chapeau), 1905
Wikimedia Commons
John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more
The world’s most famous fruit-plucking: detail from Hugo van der Goes, The Fall (after 1479)
Painting detail from Bridgeman Images
Stephen Greenblatt explores the myths and meanings of Adam and Eve.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
James Coe’s backyard and frog pond are worthy of their own plein air paintings.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley
Susan Morris Novick
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s new alumni leader touts its global reach.
The College Pump
Memorial Hall burning in September 1956—with flames beyond the reach of firefighting apparatus
Photograph by William Simon
A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire
Treasure
The volume’s front cover features a needle-painted portrait of the young prince Charles Stuart.
Photographs by Jim Harrison/Object courtesy of the Houghton Library
Embroidery fit for a prince