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“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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Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
Lawrence S. Bacow
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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Though WHRB had to initiate its newest members over Zoom, each student picked a traditional five-character radio name.
Extracurriculars cope despite COVID-19.
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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
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“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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Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
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A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
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TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
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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
Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
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Crimson receiver and returner Andrew Fischer breaks loose for a 58-yard run in the second quarter—one of several huge plays on the day.
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A sensational performance leads Harvard over Yale.
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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.
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The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
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July-August 2019
Letters
Letters on Justice Holmes, another shoeless feat, athletic admissions, and more
An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
The College Pump
Stephen Jay Gould
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop,©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection
In this Issue
Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth
Ellen N. La Motte as a young woman
Courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
Dani Rodrik
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
Letters
Letters on Justice Holmes, another shoeless feat, athletic admissions, and more
An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
Right Now
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Long-term investors fall to short-term thinking.
A European roe deer caught by researchers’ cameras
Image courtesy of Nathan Ranc
Ecologists aim to understand how deer form their home ranges.
Illustration by Dan Page
The largest-ever study of twins quantifies the respective influence of genes and environment on specific diseases.
Harvard Squared
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
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Pink Cactus
Kay Kenny
Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night.
Sashimi carpaccio
Photograph courtesy of Kamakura
Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
Courtesy of Rebecca Tolkoff, @BeccasFitnessMind
Your guide to the best summertime activities
John Harvard's Journal
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(1 of 9) Bright-red clackers helped public-health degree candidates promote hand-washing.Photograph by Jim Harrison
At the 368th Commencement, sober talk about the times—and life lessons from a cohort of powerful women
The honorands of 2019
President Bacow’s first baccalaureate
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC
Commencement remarks on character and conduct by President Lawrence S. Bacow, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Teju Cole, and more
President Bacow’s lighter, and personal, side during Commencement week
Davóne Tines
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Short takes from Commencement, from a stirring “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and powerful reunion moments to Mme. Caller and a neglected feline would-be honorand
HUDS leadership meets with Red’s Best CEO Jared Auerbach in the organization’s headquarters on Boston Fish Pier. From left to right: David Davidson (HUDS managing director), Bruce Calvert (director for residential dining operations), Martin Breslin (director for culinary operations), Jared Auerbach, Crista Martin (HUDS director for strategic initiatives and communications), and Akeisha Hayde (executive chef for residential dining)
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Dining…and learning
Alexander Rehding
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Peabody professor of music, in brief
Bridget Terry Long
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
Faculty Dean denouement, Domínguez disinvitation, fencing issues, and updates on undergraduate education and public service
Teaching stars, new academicians, a memorable May Day, and more
Sarah Whiting
Photograph by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University
A new Design dean, disruptive divestment activism, Radcliffe fellows, and more
Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Montage
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
©2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
As a performer, Lauderdale is often the center of attention. With Meow Meow, he embraces a supportive role.
Photograph by Autumn de Wilde
Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale is at his best bringing people together.
The master architects: Hall for Worship of the Ancestors, Beijing, early fifteenth century with many later repairs
Photograph by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chinese refugees stream through the wrecked streets of Chongqing, heavily bombed by the Japanese from 1938 to 1943 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Photograph from Central Press/Getty Images
The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Truman French and Tucker Pforzheimer amid stacks of prime shiitake-growing oak logs at their Martha’s Vineyard farm
Photograph by Randi Baird Photography
The farmers at MV Mycological hope so.
From left: Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland, Dan H. Fenn Jr., Tamara Elliott Rogers
Photographs from left by: Jim Harrison; Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jim Harrsion
For extraordinary service to the University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Lael Brainard, Joseph Nye, Jane Lubchenco, Carroll Bogert, and Roger Ferguson
Photograph courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Contributions to society from graduate research
Britain-bound
Election results
Evelyn Richmond and Arsen Charles
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Arsen Charles ’42 led the 2019 alumni parade.
The College Pump
Stephen Jay Gould
Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop,©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection