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Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
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With greetings to the community, and a major faculty appointment, new Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow sets to work.
New filings in a lawsuit against Harvard over admissions allege discrimination against Asian-Americans.
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Illustration by Jim Frazier
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
Illustration by Martin Hargreaves
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
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Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine Zhang
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The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Arguably the Ivy League’s most dangerous offensive weapon, the Crimson’s return man and wideout Justice Shelton-Mosley ‘19 is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Sofia Cigarroa Kennedy and KeeHup Arie Yong
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Two seniors who help make Houses into homes
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
Gerald López on a pedestrian bridge two blocks from his childhood home in East Los Angeles. For him, rebellious lawyering is not just a legal theory, but a way of being.
Photograph by Coral von Zumwalt
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
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Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
Photograph by Dennis Tangney Jr./Getty Images
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
Every human-powered vehicle must stand the test of traveling on asphalt, through mud, and into the Merrimack River.
Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
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At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Image gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall ©President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. PM# 2001.29.641
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
Every human-powered vehicle must stand the test of traveling on asphalt, through mud, and into the Merrimack River.
Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
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(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Boosting the game, and The Game
Arguably the Ivy League’s most dangerous offensive weapon, the Crimson’s return man and wideout Justice Shelton-Mosley ‘19 is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Harvard Athletics overhauls coaches’ compensation.
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Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
Poster courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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The Watchers
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
Illustration by Phil Foster
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
A 1944 map of the beaches of Iwo Jima, donated by a Harvard staff member who served in the U.S. assault on the island
Courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
An art installation designed by local architect Haydee Casellas sits in the center of “Passports: Lives in Transit,” created with glass plates and dozens of passports purchased by the curators on eBay.
Photograph by Brandon J. Dixon/Harvard Magazine
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
Robert Reid-Pharr
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The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
Phil Torrey
Photograph courtesy of Phil Torrey
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
A student protest during the 1968 Commencement
Courtesy of The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.