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Overseer and Director Candidates

Harvard Overseer and HAA elected director nominees for 2018March-April 2018 harvard-director-and-overseer-candidates-2018This spring, alumni can vote for new Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni...

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The Future of Food

A Food Startup EcosystemMarch-April 2018 future-of-food-and-farmingA New Green Revolution?A glimpse of the future of food can be seen through the eyes of Andrew Ive, M.B.A. ’97. He is managing director...

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Engineering Superior Photosynthesis

Improving PhotosynthesisJonathan ShawMarch-April 2018 calyxt-gene-editingA New Green Revolution?Photosynthesis combines sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and minerals to make organic compounds: the food...

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A New Green Revolution?

A new Green Revolution grows from agricultural technologiesAbundant food and better than ever?Jonathan ShawMarch-April 2018 sustainable-agriculture-and-food-securityBy 2050, somewhere between nine and...

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Young Men on the Field

Symposium with Harvard alumni MLB executivesLydialyle Gibson Harvard alumni MLB executivesThey talked about the global game of baseball and the passion that keeps them in it and the young...

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Julian Schwinger, the Singularity

Remembering Towering Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)Jonathan Shaw Julian-SchwingerIn the fall of 1945, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, scientists working on the Manhattan Project heard Julian...

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Justice Seeker

Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimesBen BeachMarch-April 2018 justice-seekerStephen j. rapp ’71 is no longer an assistant secretary of state, but his work to bring...

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An Imposing Honor for Harvard’s First Black Graduate

Richard T. Greener statue installed at University of South CarolinaJean Martin richard-greener-statue-univ-scWith the unveiling yesterday on its central campus of a nine-foot statue of lawyer,...

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Comedy Compulsion

"I want one more shot!": profile of TV writer Nell ScovellTV writer Nell Scovell looks back on <em>All the Funny Parts.</em>Sophia NguyenMarch-April 2018 nell-scovell-memoirNell Scovell’82...

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Targeting Cancer

Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancerThe dawn of precision medicineJonathan ShawMay-June 2018 precision-medicine-cancerLinnea Olson tells her story—of repeatedly facing death,...

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

VitaEunice Kennedy Shriver and the Special OlympicsBrief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009Eileen McNamaraMay-June 2018 eunice-kennedy-shriverEunice Kennedy arrived at Radcliffe in November 1943 with...

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Our Towns

“Our Towns” highlights a positive force in American lifeJames and Deborah Fallows explore “what the hell is happening in America.”Lincoln CaplanMay-June 2018 our-towns-fallowsHeading west by small...

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Trimming Truancy

The Power of a PostcardBehavioral “nudges” boost student performanceJonathan ShawMay-June 2018 truancy-letterCould a simple postcard, properly deployed, make a measurable impact on student absenteeism...

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Gloucester’s Beauport Mansion

Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, in GloucesterAn historic home alive with Henry Davis Sleeper’s generous creative spirit
Nell Porter BrownMay-June 2018 beauport-gloucesterBeauport, perched on...

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Harvard Commencement 2018

Harvard Commencement 2018Harvard Commencement and reunion guideMay-June 2018 harvard-commencement-2018COMMENCEMENT WEEK includes addresses by President Drew Gilpin Faust and Congressman John Lewis,...

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Overseer and Director Candidates

Harvard Overseer and HAA elected director nominees for 2018May-June 2018 harvard-overseer-director-candidatesThis spring, alumni can vote for new Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA)...

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Last of the Seafarers

The Bajau fishermen of Indonesia face lifestyle pressures.In Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.Lydialyle GibsonDavid HuMay-June 2018 bajau-last-nomads-of-the-sea“I fully...

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The Academic Heights

“An Academic Life” by Hanna Holborn Gray reviewedHanna Holborn Gray on university leadershipJohn S. RosenbergMay-June 2018 hanna-holborn-grayAny Massachusetts Hall presidential transition—like the...

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Harvesting History

William Sellers boosts history William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.Nell Porter BrownMay-June 2018 william-sellersWalking through Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, William...

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Visiting Hours

Revisiting Jack Lueders-Booth’s portrait series “Women Prisoners”Portraits of the imprisoned, seen anew
Olivia SchwobMay-June 2018 jack-lueders-booth“Magic” is what Jack Lueders-Booth calls it: In...

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