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“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.
Rachel Gable’s research on helping first-generation and low-income students succeed at elite colleges
As the country isolates, are we all alone?
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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
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A collection of stunning Jun ceramics displayed—and analyzed
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Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
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
Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
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.
The daylily garden
Photograph courtesy of the Heritage Museums and Gardens
Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
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
President Drew Faust
Photograph by Jim Harrison
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
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
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
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