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FAITH AND UNBELIEF I am surprised that Katherine Dunn (“Faculty Faith,” July-August, page 15) does not refer to the main...
September-October 2007
Features
Honorable Forester
Peter Shaw Ashton stepped into his first Asian tropical forest 50 years ago last March. For what he has accomplished in those steamy reaches, he...
Writing as Performance
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance—and writing is a performance, like singing an...
Gordon McKay
Brief life of an inventor with a lasting Harvard legacy: 1821-1903
Bricks & Politics
Every year, on a hot summer day, 10 Boston-area architects pile into a van together and drive around for hours looking for beauty. Lately, at...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Slowing Sperm
Many women fantasize about it: a male birth-control pill. After all, most existing contraceptives place sole responsibility for preventing...
From Anecdote to Equation
The idea seems simple enough: Get detailed information about the participants in a given social program—public-housing residents, say, or...
Foundations of Faith?
Public debates about evolution frequently pit science against religion. But work by professor of mathematics and of biology Martin Nowak adds a...
Manhood Reconsidered
As a professor at Harvard Business School, Robin J. Ely has had her share of experience with how men (who constitute 80 percent of the...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Moving On
Photograph by Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office To accommodate Harvard Law School’s large new building, an existing garage and...
Settling In, Sociably
On Monday morning, July 2, those members of the Harvard community who weren’t taking a pre-holiday vacation were greeted by an e-mailed...
Dr. Dean
Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., becomes dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) on September 1; President Drew Faust announced his appointment on July 11...
Howard Gardner
Photograph by Stu Rosner Howard Gardner As a psychologist, Howard Gardner is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, first...
Scaffolding and Science
Photograph by Jim Harrison Byerly Hall is known to tens of thousands of would-be Harvard College students as the home of undergraduate...
The Calendar, Changed
Harvard’s anomalous academic calendar will more closely resemble those of other institutions—starting just after Labor Day and...
Engineering Renewed
Celebrating its own nifty bit of reengineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), elevated from the status of a division of...
University People
Enduring Deans, Acting Executives Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler Alan A. Altshuler, Harvard Graduate School of Design...
Yesterday's News
1912 Larz Anderson ’88 proposes to build a new bridge across the Charles River to replace the inadequate wooden structure connecting...
Scholarly Sale
The $50-million challenge fund established by the University Development Office in February 2006 to stimulate the endowment of professorships...
Arsenic and Old Lead
The Arnold Arboretum anticipated closing a deal last December to sell the Case Estates, its 62.5-acre property (complete with barn and two other...
Brevia
College Chief Concludes Service Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross, Leverett professor of mathematics, left his decanal post on August 31...
Homes Away from Homes
Though I have two years left before I bid farewell to Harvard, I stayed through Commencement this past June to write for the Crimson and...
Far-Flung Fellows
Photograph by Jim Harrison Liz Goodwin and Samuel Bjork Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the...
Powers of the Pitch
Deep into the second half of the NCAA soccer playoff game against SUNY Binghamton last fall, with the score tied 1-1, Harvard forward...
Rugger Mothers
I was a hooker at Harvard. It wasn’t what I expected from college, but I fell in with a crowd of foul-mouthed girls who spent Saturdays...
Fall Preview
Women’s Soccer New head coach Ray Leone, who came to Harvard from Arizona State, leads the women booters into their fall season; he is the...
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Savant of Screens
Not long ago, Virginia Heffernan, Ph.D. ’02, who writes about television and on-line media for the New York Times, got an e-mail from her...
Make the Arsenal Usable
In Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, $27.95), Jeremi Suri examines why Henry Kissinger ’50, Ph.D...
An Imperial American
Lincoln Kirstein ’30 combined a ferocious intelligence with manic energy, a belief that there was nothing he could not do, and a...
Chords from Radius
“Playing chamber music for a white, affluent audience that is experienced in this kind of music doesn’t light my fire nearly as much...
Rhythms of Race
At age 36, Kevin Young ’92 ranks among the most accomplished poets of his generation. The recipient of Guggenheim, Stegner, and NEA...
Off the Shelf
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life, edited by Louise M. Antony, Ph.D. ’82 (Oxford...
Chapter & Verse
Kenneth Kronenberg seeks the definitive source for “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
"We Need a Win"
Editor’s note: More people than ever before seem to be seeking the U.S. presidency. Rather than profile alumni who are running for...
Ringing in the New
As a new presidential administration moves into Massachusetts Hall, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is also taking on challenges under its...
Aloian Scholars
Matthew Drazba ’08, of Kirkland House, and Ana Vollmar ’08, of Dudley House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars...
Justice, On Line
Video stills ©President and Fellows Harvard College ”Justice,” from Sanders Theatre to you: Sandel and engaged students...
Hiram Hunn Awards
Six alumni are to receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of...
Alumni Colleges
The Harvard Alumni Association offers numerous opportunities for alumni to stay in touch with their alma mater. Among them are a series of...
News from Belgrade
The Harvard Club of Serbia celebrated the country’s new government—which includes President Boris Tadic, a participant in a Kennedy...
Science Educator
When asked what inspired her to create The Young Scientists Club series of do-them-at-home science kits, Esther Novis ’87, A.L.M...
The Bird Man
“They’re very special birds, but they could go extinct in the flash of an eye,” says Gus Bodner ’89 of the native...
Reasons to Run
Erin Sprague ’05 has one goal: to run seven marathons, on seven continents, and raise money for seven charities. And in the process, she...
Present Memories
During the class of 1972’s thirty-fifth reunion in June, about 80 people showed up for a talk and animated discussion spurred by this...
