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Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
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Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
Photograph credits from left: Kent Dayton and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2)
Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
Dendritic cells (like the one shown in yellow, within a pink polymer support structure) can be activated to recognize cancer cells. After migrating to the lymph nodes and spleen, they then train immune-system T cells to attack and destroy tumors.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
An implantable cancer vaccine shows promise in training the immune system to attack tumors.
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Responses to Harvard Magazine’s questionnaire about the University’s challenges and opportunities—and Overseers’ role in leading the institution forward
“Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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(1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65Photograph courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
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Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
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Cassandra Albinson
Photograph by Stu Rosner; Painting: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) by François Boucher/Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
Photograph by John P. Johnson/HBO
TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
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An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
Photograph by Martha Stewart
David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
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The Board of Editors for volume 70 of the Harvard Law Review (1956-1957), immortalized on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.
Photograph courtesy of Nancy Boxley Tepper/reproduction by KLK Photography
An alumna looks back.
The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
From the archives
Tom Nichols
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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Readers comment on criminal injustices, alumni who died in Vietnam, political correctness, and more.
President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
Articulating a vision and refining a strategy for Harvard
Stuart Harris
Photograph by Jim Harrison, with special thanks to New England Base Camp
Stuart Harris and the austere practice of wilderness physicians
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
How market forces have made American higher education radically unequal
Davenport at home in 1975, with two of his own works behind him. An image of Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon partners Davenport’s portrait.
Photograph by Guy Mendes
Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005
Photograph by Kevin Ma and Pakong Chirarattanonon, Robert Wood Laboratory
The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms
A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
Photograph by Larry Downing/Reuters
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
Readers comment on criminal injustices, alumni who died in Vietnam, political correctness, and more.
President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
Articulating a vision and refining a strategy for Harvard
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
Pakistanis eating rice, a staple crop and major source of protein in South Asia.
Photograph by A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images
How global warming can change crop nutrition
Cooking lessons at the French Cultural Center
Photograph courtesy of the French Cultural Center
Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
Photograph courtesy of the Boston International Book Fair
Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
The Winthrop House library
Photograph by Peter Vanderwarker
Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
Rachel L. Gable
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
Nicco Mele
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The director of the Shorenstein Center on how the Internet came to mean so much to him.
Michelle A. Williams
Photograph by Ben Gebo/Courtesy of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Michelle Williams, a year into her role as Public Health School dean
Illustration by Mark Steele
“Vagabonding,” Harvard Student Agencies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
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CEO N.V. Narvekar assesses Harvard Management Company’s most recent fiscal-year performance, and the road ahead.
Harvard’s leaders stress community values at the start of the academic year.
A “visiting fellow” invitation provokes an uproar.
Unrecognized single-gender social organizations dominate another Faculty of Arts and Sciences monthly meeting.
Bob Dylan in 1965. Already, the classical world was starting to influence his writing.
Photograph from Granger
In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
James E. Ryan
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Deans departing, sexual-assault standards, and a Lowell House bell
At Rhode Island, junior powerhouse Charlie Booker III rumbled for gains of 50 and 57 yards en route to a game- and career-high 139.
Photograph by gil Talbot/Harvard athletic communications
An Ivy win and a terrible injury mark Harvard football's early season.
Fure focuses during a July workshop for The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects.
Photograph by Marina Levitskaya/ Courtesy of Peak Performances @ Montclair State University
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
Photograph from the Everett Collection Inc./Alamy Stock photo
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Maureen Freely
Photograph by Andre Avanessian
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
Stephanie Burt, recently named co-editor of poetry at The Nation, in her office at Harvard
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.
Among the nineteenth-century frauds Kevin Young explores are the pseudo-scientific Great Moon Hoax.
Photograph from Chronicle/Alamy
From the Missouri Compromise to the 2016 election, Kevin Young's Bunk takes stock of American hoaxes, con men, and race fantasies.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Hedden in the northern section of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument. Behind him are cliffs, or mesas, above Indian Creek.
Photograph by Tim Peterson
A Utah activist reflects on 40 years of land conservation—and what’s coming next.
Alumni are honored for undergraduate admissions work.
Six alumni are recognized for long-time volunteer service to the University.