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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.
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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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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
Photograph by Jeffrey Sturges
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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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
documentaries and feature films
Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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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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September-October 2019
Letters
Letters on family roots, Dani Rodrik, opioid associations, and more
President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
From Bureau of Study Counsel to Academic Resource Center
The College Pump
Photograph by Allison Kern/Harvard Magazine
Turkeys, tourists, traditions, tranquility
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe
In this Issue
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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(1 of 4) David Damrosch
Photograph by Stu Rosner
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
This portrait of Hunt Logan by the Parisian-trained, African-American painter William Edouard Scott, was begun in 1915 while he was in residence at Tuskegee and completed at her daughter’s direction in 1918.
Portrait from Adele Logan Alexander’s personal collection
Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
Letters
Letters on family roots, Dani Rodrik, opioid associations, and more
President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
From Bureau of Study Counsel to Academic Resource Center
Right Now
Illustration by James Yamasaki
Two public-health veterans warn of new smoking risks, especially for the young.
Illustration by David Johnson
The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
Illustration by Richard Beacham
Do patients who defeat cancer hold biological secrets?
Harvard Squared
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(1 of 8) The “Rocking Horse Graveyard,” in Lincoln, Massachusetts— “It’s a fun, whimsical thing with a flea- market feel,” Ocker says. “But at night it’s one of the creepiest sights on the planet.”
Photograph courtesy of J.W. Ocker/OTIS
Exploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker
(click on arrow at right to see full image) A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
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(1 of 3) Adventures in Purgatory Chasm
Photograph by Normal Barrett/Alamy Stock Photo
Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
The seventeenth-century Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts
Photograph courtesy of the Fairbanks House
Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
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(1 of 6) A child’s horse-drawn carriage dating to1907, from the Wenham Museum’s new exhibit
Photograph courtesy of Peter G. Gwinn/Wenham Museum
Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore
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(1 of 6) The market as a community gathering point
Photograph by Melissa DiPalma
Boston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia
John Harvard's Journal
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(1 of 7) Harvard Hall renovation begins.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
New construction in Allston, and renewal everywhere else, from Adams House to Andover/Swartz Hall
August 28, 2018: An on-the-run president, out for a run with students
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/HPAC
President Bacow assesses his inaugural year.
Na Li
Photograph by Stu Rosner
For a star electrical engineering professor, it's all about systems.
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(1 of 3) Hansjörg Wyss
Photograph courtesy of the Wyss Institute
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering gets another boost.
Dwight Miller
Photograph by Jim Harrison
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
Jane Pickering
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The Peabody’s new director, early admissions, AI, endowment taxation, and more
A coach cashiered, a professor sanctioned, an Allston update, and more
The author and fellow activists at a Divest Harvard rally this past April: (from left) Caleb Schwartz ’20, Flores-Jones, Anand Bradley ’19, Owen Torrey ’21, Eva Rosenfeld ’21, and Sophia Higgins ’21
Photograph by Lydia Carmichael Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
An activist on activism, in college and after
Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Liedel (at left), representing Germany in Spain’s 2019 La Manga Tournament, competes for the ball with a Danish rival.
Photograph by Quality Sports Images/Getty Images
Linda Liedel ’21 always knew how good she could be.
Montage
In “Taking Time Off When I’m Most Inspired,” Fish explains the benefits of rest to his nearly 600,000 followers.
Courtesy of John Fish
On YouTube, watch John Fish grow.
Remote corporate decisions devastate local employers: a defunct Saturn dealer
Photograph by Paul Velgos/Alamy Stock Photo
“The rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream”
Photograph by Brian Light/Alamy Stock Photos
A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.
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(1 of 4) Mak designed lighting for a 2019 staging of The Bridges of Madison County by the Philadelphia Theater Company.Photograph by Rich Hein
Lighting and set designer Elizabeth Mak communicates stories.
Dauphin Island, Alabama, after Katrina, 2005: a recurrent, man-made disaster that ignores nature—and climate change
Photograph by Gilbert M. Gaul
Recent books with Harvard connections
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(1 of 2) In “Reneepoptosis,” by animator Renee Zhan, three versions of the artist go on a quest for God, traversing an unfamiliar terrain that turns out to be her own body.Film still courtesy of Renee Zhan
Animator Renee Zhan finds self-discovery in strange landscapes.
The redeveloped Government Center, Boston, 1971, and surrounding private buildings
Photograph courtesy of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Elizabeth Thomas at home with her own small dogs, Chapek and Kafka, and her son’s large dog, Clover, whom she watches when he is away.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans
Alice Hill
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard Alumni Association president Alice Hill ’81, Ph.D. ’91
Upsolve co-founder Rohan Pavuluri (right) and summer staffer Nick Brown are Crimson activists helping those in the red.
Courtesy of Upsolve
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
The College Pump
Photograph by Allison Kern/Harvard Magazine
Turkeys, tourists, traditions, tranquility
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe