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November-December 2008
Features
Animals Speak Color
Kit Reed introduces an exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History that reveals the different roles color plays in the animal and plant kingdoms.
Poetic Patriarch
Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.
Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.
William P. MacKinnon profiles the early war correspondent who covered the Utah War against the Mormon government of Brigham Young.
Decoding Diabetes
Elizabeth Gudrais reports on how discoveries in genetics, cell metabolism, and the study of small molecules point the way to new therapies and perhaps a cure for diabetes.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Slavery’s Sway
Interdisciplinary economist Nathan Nunn explores the problem of African underdevelopment by drawing on—and unearthing—historical data about slavery.
What Makes the Human Mind?
Biological anthropologist Marc Hauser seeks to isolate the aspects of human thought that account for what he terms "humaniqueness," the difference between animal and human thought.
World-Wide Web of Life
James Hanken of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and other scientists launch an ambitious project to chronicle all life on earth.
The Financial Cost of Feeling
Psychologist and public-policy scholar Jennifer Lerner explores how emotions influence behavior and judgment.
A Durable Bubble
Mechanical engineering student Emilie Dressaire studies tiny bubbles that can last up to a year and replace fat droplets in ice cream.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Labs, Size Large
The new Northwest Science Building at Harvard
Endowment Edges Up in a Down Year
Harvard’s endowment grows in fiscal year 2008 by $2.0 billion, or 5.7 percent, to $36.9 billion.
Tarun Khanna
Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna seeks to integrate Western business models into emerging markets.
Probing Policing
Recent complaints about the Harvard University Police Department have prompted a special presidential review committee charged with improving the department’s relationship with the community.
Stem-Cell Progress
Harvard researchers at the Stem Cell Institute achieve major breakthroughs.
Yesterday's News
Headlines from Harvard history
Morning Prayers: All Creatures
President Drew Faust delivers a homily at Morning Prayers on the importance of environmental stewardship.
Creating Space to Contemplate Success
Harvard pushes undergraduates to ponder life’s big questions.
Powerful Conversations
Ariel Phillips and Abigail Lipson head the Success-Failure Project at the Harvard Bureau of Study Counsel.
In the Black
A summary of the Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2008
Financial Crises, Faculty Views
Harvard faculty members gather to discuss economic problems on Wall Street and beyond.
Coming Out at Harvard
The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary.
Brevia
Short takes on recent news at Harvard
Youthful Dreams
The Undergraduate reflects on how good and bad dreams shape the way we grow up.
Seeing the Field
Francine Polet brings international experience and tactics to the Harvard field-hockey team.
Crimson in Beijing
How Harvard athletes fared at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games
Soccer Summary
Fall semester soccer results to date
Bumps in the Road
A report on the first half of the Harvard football season. And: The Harvard football team has a fancy new locker room.
The Force Was With Them
Kevin Rafferty has made a documentary film, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, about the 1968 football game.
Men's Basketball Exonerated
The Ivy League exonerated men’s basketball head coach Tommy Amaker and an assistant coach following allegations of improper recruiting and lowered admissions standards for the men’s team.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
The Maximalist
After a childhood spent playing the classics, cellist Matt Haimovitz has devoted himself to new music.
Stinging the Dinosaurs
An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
Photos in Thread
Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.
Art as Chattel
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Blindspot: A Novel
History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel Blindspot, set in colonial Boston.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
At Home with Old Age
William Thomas, founder of the Eden Alternative and the Green House Project, reimagines nursing homes and residential living for the elderly.
Comings and Goings
Events at Harvard Clubs
Cape Town Conference
A Harvard Alumni Association global conference in South Africa
Job Notices
Programs that match Harvard College students with jobs and internships
Well Done
Recipients of the 2008 Harvard Alumni Association Awards
