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Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicaitonsThe new dean has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
Image courtesy of Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
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The blue regions are oil palm plantation, while the forest regions (yellows and greens) are colored by tree height, which is a proxy for carbon.
Image courtesy of Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
Karen Dynan
Photograph courtesy of Karen DynanThe severe economic fallout, in context
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
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“We are the generation that is coming of age in the COVID-19 crisis,” writes Lauren Spohn ’20. “We can we build? What can we sacrifice? What risks can we take?”
Professor and platform: William C. Kirby logs on to Zoom from home for his first remote teaching session.
On taking a Harvard Gen Ed class remotely with William C. Kirby
Photograph by Allison Kern/Harvard Magazine
“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
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Loeb House, where the University's governing boards meet
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCThe coronavirus pandemic threatened to disenfranchise alumni balloting.
Tommie Shelby, chair of African and African-American studies
Photograph by Melissa BlackallSpeakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home.
Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, chair of the Harvard Alumni Association Committee to Nominate Overseers and Elected Directors, and Philip Lovejoy, HAA executive director
Photographs: Courtesy of Tracy P. Palandjian and Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni AssociationOn the eve of a contested election for the governing board, looking under the hood of the nominating process
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Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
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Contra dancing, Balkan music, sea chanteys—and more!
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
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Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
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“I feel lucky that I took for granted my Harvard experience before its abrupt end.”
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“What will it mean to end our time on this campus with no closure, no time to reflect on what it all meant?”
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Our editors curate their favorite literary stories in Harvard Magazine.
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Photograph © Lisa Tang LiuKen Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity
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2020 Ivy foil champion Geoffrey Tourette '21 celebrates a point.
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A focus on process leads Harvard fencers to an Ivy championship.
At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
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Matt “Happy” Gilmore smiles behind the wheel. Zamboni-driving takes focus, but Gilmore says that he loves waving to children in the crowd and making their day.
Photograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice
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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