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MIGHTY MOSQUITOES, TICKS Reporting on entomologist Andrew Spielman's work and citing his views ("The Landscape Infections,"...
January-February 2002
Features
America and Latin America
George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal priority. Nor is he the first to drop the region from his agenda when...
Hop, Skip, and Soar
Post-doctoral fellow Gary Gillis plays "catcher" behind a tammar wallaby on a fast-moving treadmill. Hopping marsupials like...
Waldo Peirce
Waldo Peirce '07/'08/'09 almost didn't graduate from Harvard. By his own admission he spent too much time in Leavitt and Peirce (no relation)...
Understanding Terrorism
Beyond the emotional reactions necessarily provoked by the terrorist attacks of September 11 and subsequent anthrax-tainted mailings, the events...
Battling Bioterrorism
When people started dying of inhalation anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, it took "six days to discern the outbreak...
Conflict, Abroad and at Home
"That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies...
The Community Scholar
Ahhng...ahhng...that strange sound somewhere between a ring and a buzzer announces a fire drill at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Lines of...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Microbes Eat the Past
In 1969, astronauts Edwin Eugene ("Buzz") Aldrin and Neil Armstrong bounced along the moon's dusty surface wearing the toughest work...
Zigzag Memory Lane
Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, federal agents began a search for two men seen renting the van used in the attack. One of those...
Vaccine for Tooth Decay
For most of the twentieth century, the only way dentists could treat cavities was to "drill and fill." But what if cavities never...
Impermanent Art
The darkest recesses of our refrigerators can harbor ghastly things: spoiled milk, moldy bread, putrid fruit. When their odors offend, we...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Widener Library: Youthful at the Core
The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips Reading Room opened for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of...
Addie's Plaque, George's Hair
When a construction crew demolished a wall on the east side of the level-2 stacks in Widener during Phase 1 of renovations, they came upon a...
Second in Command
In his installation address on October 12 and in a subsequent talk to alumni 15 days later, President Lawrence H. Summers emphasized that...
Undergraduate Update
Propelled by faculty interest and prodded by Harvard's new president, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to be embarked on an...
David Carrasco
In the hands of this man, ideas become living things. An historian of religion who holds joint appointments in the department of anthropology...
WWI Women Remembered
In a Veterans Day service at Memorial Church on November 11, Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, New York City, spoke of the...
The Gamut of Grades from A to B
Slightly more than half the grades given to Harvard undergraduates during the past three academic years have been A or A-. More than any other...
A Scientific Windfall for the University?
A prestigious research institute in east Cambridge, and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into...
Surplus Surge
The black ink continues. For the fiscal year ended June 20, 2001, the University recorded an operating surplus of $164.9 million--37 percent...
Nathan Marsh Pusey
In his habits of character and his presidential style, Nathan Pusey '28, Ph.D '37, LL.D '72, was a figure of transition. The last of a breed in...
Spirit of Giving
The University Campaign, concluded at the end of 1999, essentially doubled giving to Harvard, to $400 million or more annually. But remarkably...
Airing Out the Living Wage
The occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)--proponents of a minimum "living wage" of...
Kaats and Bear Arrive
Railroad tycoon Edward Harriman financed a scientific expedition to the coast of Alaska in 1899 and went along on it with his family. When the...
Reshaping the Science Center
A treasure buried in the basement of the Science Center for years, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will at last be...
Brevia
Past and Present Presidents William Jefferson Clinton spoke to an overflow crowd in the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on November 19...
Language Lessons
Former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Elizabeth Gudrais '01 returned from a fellowship in Latvia in December and is now...
Back in the Game
In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting with my hastily...
Football: 9-0
After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...
"A Force on the Ice"
There has been a Moore on the ice for Harvard since 1996, when Mark Moore '00 matriculated. His brothers, Steve '01 and Dominic '03, followed...
Fall Sports in Brief
The men's soccer team (10-5-1, 5-2 Ivy) finished third in the Ivies, having reeled off a five-game winning streak in midseason. The booters...
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Harvard Calendar
MUSIC. The Harvard Club of Boston hosts the annual "battle of the bands" on February 22 at 7 p.m. The event pits undergraduate jazz ensembles...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Bubbles and "Champagne"
For a woman once accused of lacking the requisite "math gene," Julie Fouquet '80 has done pretty well. After graduation, she earned a...
Far from Clueless
Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks and management consulting firms in New York City...
Harvard at Home
The University's on-line educational venture, Harvard at Home, offers a number of new vignettes on topics ranging from terrorism and Islamic...
News from the HAA
Congratulations The HAA clubs committee recognizes publicly those who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club. This year's winners of the...
Comings and Goings
Local Harvard clubs organize a number of lectures and social events. What follows is a list of some of the gatherings planned. For further...
In Memoriam
The staff of Harvard Magazine wish to express their sorrow at the loss of the following alumni in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001...
Reunion: The Musical
Six years ago, at the class of 1961's thirty-fifth reunion, Phil Carl sang a few songs during the cabaret-style festivities. Classmate Dan Klein...
Treasure Hunter
From hanging out with R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia, to showing her paintings in Rome, to documenting local folklore hidden in the Catskills, Laura...
Teaching Values
Should discussions of moral principles form part of the curriculum in public schools? Katherine Simon '85 has been thinking about this for a...
Yesterday's News
1922 Noting a trend among American universities toward improving the quality of student dormitories, the editors remark, "The average...
Off the Beaten Track
John Fox, Ph.D. '94, has already had his biography researched and written. His role as a team anthropologist and director of research for an...
