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The author's new room, complete with College-supplied quarantine-period (and after) necessities
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What’s changed—and what hasn’t
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.
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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.
As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
Dendritic cells (like the one shown in yellow, within a pink polymer support structure) can be activated to recognize cancer cells. After migrating to the lymph nodes and spleen, they then train immune-system T cells to attack and destroy tumors.
Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
An implantable cancer vaccine shows promise in training the immune system to attack tumors.
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What’s changed—and what hasn’t
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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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The author's new room, complete with College-supplied quarantine-period (and after) necessities
Photograph by Meena Venkataramanan
What’s changed—and what hasn’t
Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
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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
“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art
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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
From the archives
Tom Nichols
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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Stimulus funds, meritocracy, enlarging history, and more
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Ross Douthat sees American society stagnating amid tired culture wars and a gridlocked political system.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval
Lorenzo Tañada as a senator (in an undated portrait)
Portrait courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines /Wikipedia/Public Domain
Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992
Stimulus funds, meritocracy, enlarging history, and more
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Illustration by Mike Austin
Economic analysis of U.S. government spending shows that some social programs more than pay for themselves.
Illustration by Barbara Dekeyser
Dementia is decreasing in Europe and North America. Why not the rest of the world?
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Meadow with Poplars (circa 1875)
Claude Monet/Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts
Winter exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts
Groovy clocks from The Glass House
Photograph courtesy of The Glass House
Holiday gifts that support the arts
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
Photograph by Rachel Manzier/Metter Media/Courtesy of Craigie on Main
Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
This fall’s welcome to Harvard Yard began with PPE-equipped greeters, virus testing, and pre-isolation meal kits.
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine
A semester conducted in the shadow of the coronavirus
Mayra Rivera
Photograph by Steph Stevens
How apocalyptic narratives help make sense of the modern world
The First Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on a much-watched lawsuit that could determine the future of affirmative action.
Sheree Ohen, associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Photograph by Kayana Szymczak
Racial justice efforts, “Lowell?” House, and more
A consequential change in the composition of and elections for the Board of Overseers
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s journal displays handwriting much finer than that in many manuscripts. Who did the underlining is unknown.
Detail from: A-143, folder 8, p. 2. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Volunteer transcribers help make Harvard library documents accessible.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
In college, Mark Erickson returned to his birthplace, capturing his experience in photographs such as those shown here, all taken in Hanoi. This is “Schoolchildren Playing Cards.”
Photograph by and courtesy of Mark Erickson
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
Yitzchak Lichtenstein/From the book
Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Applied science in the kitchen: a cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookie, from Science and Cooking
Courtesy of W.W. Norton and Company
Recent books with Harvard connections