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Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School.
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
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A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolA Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
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Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Nielsen's portraits reflect the early experiences of real people striving to protect themselves from COVID-19 and respond to the new pandemic-era.
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Richard Nielsen: “This is Not a Gag,” at MASS MoCA
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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A senior cheer group
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Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
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
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
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January-February 2018
Letters
Readers comment on unequal university resources, educational effectiveness, final clubs, and first-generation students
President Drew Faust on the enduring struggle to assure access to education.
Thoughts on the coming reconstruction of Harvard Square—and the University’s front door
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
The Arnold Arboretum’s Michael Dosmann with a Rodgersia leaf and plumes of Astilbe grandis
Photograph by Jonathan Shaw
The hunt for rare plants in China
Mercer and his beloved dog, Rollo
Courtesy of the Mercer Museum & Library
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
Fred Moten
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Norbert “Nubbins” Wiener, shown here in boyhood, was 14 when he matriculated at Harvard in 1909.
Photograph courtesy of the MIT Museum
Parents and superkids, then and now
Letters
Readers comment on unequal university resources, educational effectiveness, final clubs, and first-generation students
President Drew Faust on the enduring struggle to assure access to education.
Thoughts on the coming reconstruction of Harvard Square—and the University’s front door
Right Now
Illustration by Sam Ward
The United States is finally in a position of energy dominance, but its ability to harness this boom is fraught with challenges.
An osteoarthritic knee, the polished femur clearly visible, from a 600-year-old skeleton housed in the Peabody Museum.
Photograph by Jim Harrison/©2018 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM# 968-10-40/N9174.0
Neither increased obesity nor longevity explains the doubling of knee osteoarthritis since World War II.
Illustration by Øivind Hovland
An increasing consolidation of ownership in health care
Harvard Squared
Michael Frank and Louise Sacco with the stylish doggie stars of Blue Tango (acquired from an Indiana thrift shop) at the Somerville museum.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”
Photograph courtesy of the ART
HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
A scene from Newport’s dramatic Cliff Walk
Photograph courtesy of Discover Newport
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
Pork bao at Shōjō
Photograph courtesy of Shōjō
Asian-fusion food with a Western twist at Chinatown's Shōjō restaurant
John Harvard's Journal
A view of the renewed Kennedy School from within its courtyard
Photograph ©Peter Vanderwarker.
A campus remade in the course of the capital campaign
After another surplus, cautions about the University’s future financial constraints
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”
Congressional tax bills aim at universities’ endowment income.
George Q. Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School
Photograph by Stu Rosner
One year into his deanship, George Daley shares his vision for Harvard Medical School.
The dean of freshmen departs, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, and more
Final-club regulations and preventing preprofessionalism
Samuel Huntington
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Illustration by Mark Steele
“Reading period” debuts, the Maharishi visits, a blizzard shuts down the University, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Photograph courtesy of Tawanda Mulalu
Teaching rap in a Chinese high school, and contemplating one’s blackness
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell
The University Marshal retires, MacArthur fellows, diversifying freshman pre-orientation, and more
Recognizing outstanding authors and artists for serving our readers
He’s gone! Against Lafayette, junior Justice Shelton-Mosley scored on an 85-yard punt return.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A humbling defeat in The Game caps Harvard’s dreariest season in 17 years.
Building on last year’s record-setting rookie season, Dean Farris is still finding out just how fast he can go.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
No longer a “skinny kid,” swimmer Dean Farris ’20 builds on his breakout rookie season.
Montage
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Photograph by Robert Torres
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
Colin Jost (left) with his co-host, Michael Che, at the Weekend Update desk for Saturday Night Live
Photograph by Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
Dara Horn
Photograph by Michael B. Priest
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
Portraits of James Madison, 1816, by John Vanderlyn and of Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart
Paintings courtesy of the White House Historical Association
Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Alumni
Father Columba Stewart
Photograph by Guytano Magno/Hill Museum & Manuscript Library/Saint John’s University
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
Nancy Churnin’s biographies for children span time and space.
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.