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Letters from our readers
September-October 2009
Atul Gawande: surgeon, health-policy scholar, and writer
Atul Gawande, surgeon and health-policy scholar, never expected to be a literary voice of medicine.
A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises
Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”
Biographical sketch of French artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
A brief profile of an enterprising French artist
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Architecture that imitates life
Architects are beginning to employ biomimicry, studying nature as a model for building design.
Scrutinizing facial-recognition ability
“Super-recognizers” have an astonishing ability to identify faces.
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
Why a little self-indulgence makes sense.
Gamma-ray bursts reveal the oldest star yet discovered
A star more than 13 billion years old
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard grapples with fallout from the endowment's decline
An update on the University's economic situation
President Faust's perspective
President Faust on Harvard's finances, intellectual momentum, and future
Harvard Management Company President’s Perspective
Harvard Management Company president Jane Mendillo offers an update
A New History of the Harvard Extension School
A new history by its dean, Michael Shinagel, documents the school's emphasis on accessibility and continuing education.
Federico Cortese is the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
Meet the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
A history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
Harvard University Press closes its display room
The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.
On the Gates arrest and its aftermath
On the arrest of Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and its aftermath
Headlines from Harvard history
Headlines from Harvard history
Kirkland House shooting
Arrests and indictments in a case linked to drugs
Two scholars honored with University Professorships
Social scientist Gary King and systems biologist Marc W. Kirschner are named University Professors.
Roundup of recent Harvard news
Short takes on recent news
Why Harvard Needs to Get Harder
If courses aren't as exciting as extracurriculars, what’s a college for?
New Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
Star soccer penalty kicker Lizzy Nichols
Soccer’s Lizzy Nichols has a gift for penalty kicks.
2009 Football preview
Football preview, and Cleat’s blog
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Political satirist Baratunde Thurston of The Onion
Baratunde Thurston ’99 of The Onion combines comedy, politics, and technology.
An excerpt from "Jacob’s Cane"
Socialism as family inconvenience
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña
Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.
Books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Review of "Half the Sky," on the oppression of women
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Scaling Up Charity
Smile Train's Brian Mullaney ’81 aims to correct cleft-palate deformities around the world.
A Call for Public Service
HAA president Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland knows what makes people happy.
Aloian Scholars
Two Harvard seniors are honored for improving House life.
Hiram Hunn Awards
Seven alumni are honored for schools and scholarships work.
Cairo Conference
The Harvard Arab Alumni Association meets in Cairo.
Soup Chef
Teresa Chen ’64 promotes healthy soup-making and -eating.
Musical Mentor
Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.
Unicyclists in a Good Cause
Philip Wharton ’82 and daughter Sophie ’11 pedal 100 miles for Afghan and Pakistani children.
The SIGnboard
Forthcoming Shared Interest Group events
Grazing a cow in Harvard Yard
Hollis professor of divinity Harvey Cox will lead a cow through Harvard Yard.
A scrapbook of seaweed
Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard
