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  Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
  Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
  
  New England’s Forest Primeval
  
  Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
  
  1.20.20
  
  Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
  Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
  
  Election Slates and Divestment Developments
  
  The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
  
  1.9.20
  
  The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
  Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
  
  An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard
  
  The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
  
  1.7.20
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  Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
  Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.
  
  New England’s Forest Primeval
  
  Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
  
  1.20.20
  
  The clouds that make up the Radcliffe Wave (highlighted in red) pass within just 500 light years of our sun (yellow). Wave data has been superimposed on an artist’s rendering of the Milky Way galaxy as it appears in a screen shot taken from WorldWide Telescope.
  Image courtesy of Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
  
  An Interstellar Ribbon of Clouds in the Sun’s Backyard
  
  The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
  
  1.7.20
  
  A network of curli fibers (produced by genetically altered E. coli bacteria) can bind to intestinal surfaces, where it acts like a Band-Aid, and can even deliver probiotic therapies.
  Image courtesy of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University
  
  “An Atomically Precise Forest for the Price of the Sunlight”
  
  Neel Joshi harnesses bacteria to build products sustainably.
  
  12.11.19
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  Working at Beauty
  
  The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.
  
  January-February 2020
  
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  January-February 2020
  
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  Hasty Pudding Theatricals art from 1910, advertising Diana’s Debut
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  “Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
  
  January-February 2020
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  Loeb House, where the Corporation and Board of Overseers conduct their University business
  Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
  
  Election Slates and Divestment Developments
  
  The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
  
  1.9.20
  
  Annette Samuels, caught between classes
  Photograph by Jacob Sweet/Harvard Magazine
  
  A Radcliffe Return
  
  Annette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.
  
  January-February 2020
  
  First-Gen Frontlines
  
  Alumni describe their challenges in leaving home and coming to the College.
  
  January-February 2020
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  The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
  Photograph by Binita Patel
  
  Eat, Drink, Read
  
  The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
  
  January-February 2020
  
  Ways to Support Your Well-Being in the New Year
  
  Opportunities for self-improvement, and fun, at and around Harvard
  
  January-February 2020
  
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  Provincetown in the Off-Off Season
  
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  January-February 2020
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  Lawrence S. Bacow
  
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  January-February 2020
  
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  January-February 2020
  
  Surpluses and Scholarship
  
  On the University’s fiscal position and academic aspirations
  
  January-February 2020
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  The Rittase Touch
  
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  1.15.20
  
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  January-February 2020
  
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  Staging the Women's Movement
  
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  January-February 2020
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  Built in 1962, the off-the-grid, one-room cabin is popular among ice climbers and back-country skiers.
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  January-February 2020
  
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  January-February 2020
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  At left: The field team included (from left) Asah, Naban, Ashton (note his indispensable leech socks), and Ladi.
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Articles: News

Native Americans cultivating a field

Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study. Here, an engraving by Theodor De Bry, after a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne, depicts Timucua Indians at Fort Caroline, a French settlement established in what is now Florida, hoeing and sowing seeds, including beans and maize.
Courtesy of the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, permanently housed in the Morris Ansbacher Map Room, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library.

News

New England’s Forest Primeval

Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.

1.20.20

Photograph of Harvard graduate students during their strike

Walking the line: Graduate Student Union picketers in Harvard Yard on December 3, the morning their strike began.
Photograph by Jonathan Shaw/Harvard Magazine

Graduate Students Strike

HGSU-UAW members go out on strike two days before reading period.

January-February 2020

Photograph of major construction projects in Harvard Square

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Restructuring Harvard Square

A familiar place’s new faces

January-February 2020

Photograph of art historian Shawon Kinew

Shawon Kinew
Photograph by Stu Rosner

Shawon Kinew

Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history

January-February 2020

Divestment Debate, Overseer Slate

A faculty debate, and a challenge slate for the Board of Overseers

January-February 2020

Jobs Well Done

An appreciation for outstanding work

January-February 2020

Harvard’s fiscal year 2019 endowment returns by asset class

The Black…and the Red

An analysis of the annual financial report, and of Harvard Management Company’s transformation

January-February 2020

Photograph of Harvard athletics director Robert L. Scalise

Robert L. Scalise
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications

News Briefs

Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire

January-February 2020

Preparing for a Profession

Online summer programs get students ready for inclusive M.B.A., J.D., and M.Ed. studies.

January-February 2020