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SO YOU WANT TO BE 120 Is aging necessary? (“The Aging Enigma,” by Jonathan Shaw, September-October, page 46). You bet it is...
November-December 2005
Features
Intelligent Evolution
Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His...
Cinema Veritas
In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class in “Filming Science” is scattered among the seats, waiting for an...
William Henry Lewis
Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949
The Science of Hurt
The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Retinal Ennui
If you “can’t see the forest for the trees,” you’ve focused too much on the details to take in the larger situation...
Clues on the Wing
Vladimir A. Lukhtanov saw Agrodiaetus butterflies of several species flying together, and even though they all looked much the same in most...
Overseas Insourcing
Since the 1950s, the United States has led the world in science and technology, training an unrivaled pool of physicists, engineers, biologists...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Baker Library, Renewed
Baker Library at the Business School reopened officially on September 19 after a two-year makeover. The new facility was designed by Robert A.M...
Better-than-Balanced Books
Faster revenue growth, plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal...
Generous Givers
Donations to the University totaled $590 million in the fiscal year ended June 30 — the second highest sum in Harvard’s history...
Premier Physicist
Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, has a new title: Nobel laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of...
$tellar Swan Song
Ending his 15-year run as president of Harvard Management Company, Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. ’69, and his investment colleagues turned in a...
Russia Case (and Dust) Settle
Though the two official news releases announced the same agreement, their content diverged sharply regarding the settlement of a long-running...
Ronald Kessler
Ronald Kessler Photograph by Stu Rosner In on-line biomedical databases, Ronald Kessler ranks as the most widely cited author in...
Gender Initiatives Gain
The campus discussion about faculty diversity—particularly the academic development and careers of women—that was launched last spring...
Google Pauses
An undertaking greeted by Harvard librarians as potentially “a revolutionary new information-location tool” and “an important...
Harvard Business School Class of...
Data from an annually updated Harvard Business School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business...
Katrina's Ripples
In response to Hurricane Katrina, Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Law...
Money and Military Recruiting
With a fiscal gun at the University’s head, Harvard Law School (HLS) has reversed its position on military recruiting on its campus. The...
University People
Vice President’s Ciao Ann E. Berman Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Vice president for finance Ann E. Berman will...
Reforesting the Yard
Savaged by insects, ravaged by disease and old age, the elms of Harvard Yard were much diminished by 1990 (see photographs, below), when Michael...
Governing Harvard: A Faculty View
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having...
Yesterday's News
1915 Professor Theodore Richards becomes the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Illustration by Mark Steele 1930...
Gore Vidal, Lost and Found
Like many stories, this one began at an improbable distance in space and time from where it ended. The saga of how the Harvard Review (see...
The Harvard Review
Founded in 1992, the Harvard Review (http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview) is a biannual, 200-page literary journal that includes poetry...
Brevia
Finding a FellowThe search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation—to fill the vacancy created by Conrad K. Harper’s resignation...
Reality 101
I wore the wrong shoes to my first day of work this summer. I don’t know what inspired me to choose the pointy black pair with elastic...
Broadway in His Blood
Ask Michael Mitnick ’06 what kind of singing voice he has and he replies, “A bad one.” Inquire about his piano-playing skill...
Loaded for Bear
For pure, sustained excitement in an Ivy League football contest, it would be hard to beat this season’s Harvard-Brown game or last...
All-Court Wonder
Last winter, in the waning minutes of the Harvard men’s home basketball game against Princeton, a tight contest with several lead changes...
Early Autumn Sports
Soccer After a 1-0 loss to Vermont, the men’s side (4-3-1) ran off three wins over Coastal Carolina, Maine, and Fairfield before dropping...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Bridge to Mesopotamia
In a glass case stand a dozen carved statues of gypsum alabaster — male figurines with their hands folded at their chests and their...
Sculptural Forms
She Changes, by artist Janet Echelman ’87, is a giant multilayered mesh net suspended above a traffic circle next to a beachside promenade...
Congratulations
The Harvard Alumni Association awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities...
Comings and Goings
University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at...
Harvard in Istanbul
A group of 19 European Harvard club leaders gathered in Istanbul from September 9 to 11, along with HAA executive committee members and leaders...
Job Notices
Several college programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning...
Alumni Gatherings
Upcoming Alumni Colleges include “Women in the War Zone” and “Harvard in the Olympics.” The events are organized by the...
Puzzles
A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his...
In Praise of Giraffes
John A. Graham ’64’s conflict-resolution work has taken him from apartheid-torn South Africa to meetings in Geneva, Switzerland...
Sky High
Ardent flight instructor, aerobatics competitor, and self-proclaimed space junkie James E. Smolen ’71, Ph.D. ’76, has a distinctive...
A Peak Experience
Douglas Brockmeyer ’82 comes in exactly where more risk-averse people head for safety. At work, he thrives as a pediatric neurosurgeon...
Literary Ambassador
To assemble a collection of poems that capture the American experience yet are also accessible to children is a daunting task. That’s what...
