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President Bacow speaking at Peking University on March 20
Photograph by Yi Wang/Harvard Center ShanghaiThe president addresses fraught issues at a delicate time in China.
Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
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Genetic material from these two 8,000-year-old brothers, hunter-gatherers found near Leon, Spain, helped reveal an ancient migration across northern Spain.
Photograph by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeExploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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Tommy Amaker identifies Justin Bassey ’20 (shown here against North Carolina) as the team's most valuable player.
Photograph by Tim Cowie/Harvard Athletics CommunicationsJunior guard Justin Bassey
The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
Courtesy of Peter Coonradt
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
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(1 of 4) Adams House, encompassing buildings ranging from Colonial America to Harvard’s Depression-era creation of the House system (and trisected by city streets), poses design and construction challenges as renewal nears.Courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle
A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCJennifer 8. Lee ’99 on the world of “emoji activism”
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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Chef Vinh Le in the kitchen
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Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine
Pianist Angela Hewitt
Photograph by Richard Termine
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
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Exterior of the ArtLab
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An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection”
Min Jin Lee
Photograph by Ella Rinaldo
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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This year's Ivy League basketball tournaments will be played this weekend at Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater, which seats 2,800 and was the site of a thrilling playoff game between the Harvard and Princeton men in 2011. Photograph by David Silverman/Yale AthleticsInside the debate over where to play the Ivy League basketball tournament
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
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The Underground 68 film poster features Widener Library and a hard-at-work Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17. (Click the arrow at right to see the full-size version.)
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The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
Illustration by Mark Steele
Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
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(1 of 5) State police gather in front of Widener Library near sunrise on April 10.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives. HUA 969.71 Image 3
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
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July-August 2018
Letters
Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
The College Pump
Courtesy of Penelope Laurans
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
Treasure
Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged
In this Issue
Elsie Sunderland
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Portrait of Moorfield Storey by John Singer Sargent, 1917. Charcoal on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of James Moorfield Storey
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
Drew Gilpin Faust and her husband, Charles Rosenberg, at Massachusetts Hall, May 9, 2018.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
Letters
Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
Right Now
Illustration by James Yamasaki
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Solar panels on the roof and fixed shading on the windows suggest that this is no ordinary wood-shingled house.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Illustration by Blair Kelly
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
Harvard Squared
The daylily garden
Photograph courtesy of the Heritage Museums and Gardens
Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
If I was standing alone I wouldn’t stand it at all (2017)
Photograph by Jason Wyche; © Kevin Beasley
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
MAA MoCA is housed in a repurposed industrial mill conplex in North Adams, Masachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
The splendid interior of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.
Photograph by Len Levasseur
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
John Harvard's Journal
Jubilating J.D.s
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A celebration of President Drew Faust, and wariness about the assault on “veritas”
The 2018 honorands, from acclaimed artists to celebrated statesman
Gina Raimondo and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Photographs by Jim Harrison and Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Radcliffe hosts Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Rhode Island Rhodes Scholar’s modest roots
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The 2018 rites in print and digital, M.D. on her toes, and more
President Drew Faust
Photograph by Jim Harrison
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
Phil Torrey
Photograph courtesy of Phil Torrey
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Seen at the Arnold Arboretum: a paperbark maple in winter
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A veteran photographer of people turns his lens to plants.
From left: Penny S. Pritzker and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin
Photograph on left © Moshe Zusman Photography Studio. Photograph on right courtesy of Amherst College
A business leader and a college president join the Corporation.
Photograph reproduced courtesy of the artist, Stephen Coit
S. Allen Counter, undergraduate-education dean, teaching prizes, and more
From left: Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Bridget Terry Long
From left: Photographs by Kris Snibbe/HPAC and Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Two new deans, a graduate-student union, modest gains in faculty diversity, and a final-club update
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Mass Hall makeover, Adams House renewal on deck, quantitative biology, and more
Montage
Tom Morello at a 2016 show in Inglewood, California
Photograph by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.
W.H. Auden
Photograph from the Library of Congress
A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
Madelyn Ho during a playful moment in Esplanade, one of choreographer Paul Taylor’s most famous works
Photograph by Paul B. Goode
Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.
Robert Humphreville, a frequent Harvard Film Archive accompanist, says he’s mostly asked to play comedies, especially from “the big three”: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. (A scene from Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. appears over his shoulder.)
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Three pianists making silent film sing
When sail was swift. Pallada in Nagasaki (1854; no artist given), from A World of Empires.
Photograph by Paul Fearn/Alamy Stock Photo
Recent books with Harvard connections
Illustration by Sonia Pulido
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Amory, Francis, Sandi, and Alex Blake pause briefly for a family portrait…
Photograph by Lynn Donaldson
Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Choon Fong Shih, Harold Luft, Beth Adelson, and Guido Goldman
Photograph courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Contributions to society from graduate research
Clockwise from top left: Robert Coles, Robert N. Shapiro, Alice Welch, and Drew Gilpin Faust
Photographs by Jim Harrison
For extraordinary service to the University
Harvard graduates are Britain-bound.
Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Theodore R. Barnett ’41
Photographs by Jim Harrison
Seventy-seventh reunioners Evelyn Richmond and Theodore R. Barnett led the 2018 alumni parade.
The annual election results
Chai confers with a colleague in SPiNE’s Yangon office.
Photograph courtesy of SPiNE
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
The College Pump
Courtesy of Penelope Laurans
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
Treasure
Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged