letters from readers
Letters from our readers
November-December 2009
Harvard students volunteer in Africa
Students and service at a new frontier
New media transform college classrooms
Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom
From AIDS Activism to Art
View video from an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museum that explores the visual legacy of ACT UP’s campaign to galvanize action against a new epidemic.
Biographical sketch of Ayn Rand
Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist
Professionalization in the academy
On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
How cooking made us human
A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.
"Spaced education" improves learning
With “spaced education,” a surgeon offers a better way to learn.
Orchid bees and flight turbulence
Orchid bees in flight extend their hind legs for stability.
Do maternal and paternal genes compete in children?
Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Great Mammal Hall at Harvard Museum of Natural History reopens
The Great Mammal Hall in the Harvard Museum of Natural History is restored and reopened.
The endowment’s swoon
A status report on the state of the endowment
Professor John Mugane directs Harvard’s African language program
Meet the director of Harvard’s African language program.
Start-of-year address by Harvard president Faust
President Faust opens the academic year with a State of the University address.
Headlines from Harvard history
Headlines from Harvard history
Photo history of Harvard Square
A new book of photographs tells Harvard Square’s history since the 1950s. Test your own Square knowledge for a chance to win a copy of the book.
Harvard Graduate School of Education doctorate of education leadership
The Graduate School of Education creates a new doctor of education leadership program.
Harvard FAS financial update
An early-semester financial talk by the dean
roundup of recent Harvard news
Short takes on recent news
SEAS dean Cherry Murray fosters strategic planning
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences develops a 10-year strategic plan.
Loss and gain in dropping pre-med
A senior assesses life at—and after—college without the pre-med track.
Harvard Archery Club revival
Renaissance for the Archery Club
Harvard football 2009: Holy Cross, Brown, Lehigh
Football kicks off against Holy Cross, Brown, and Lehigh
1968 Harvard-Yale game documentary on DVD
A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Diane Paulus directs American Repertory Theater
Diane Paulus, the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, has an ambitious populist vision.
Excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen
An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78
Frederick Seidel’s new poetry collection reviewed
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
David Wax’s band plays Mexican folk music.
David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.
Former financier Norb Vonnegut’s investment-world thriller
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Vintage Vitality
Two Harvard-trained doctors launch a practice in the emerging field of age-management medicine.
Above and Beyond
The University’s Medal of Honor recipients are memorialized.
Well Done
The winners of the 2009 Harvard Alumni Association Award
Comings and Goings
A sampling of Harvard Clubs’ forthcoming events
Job Notices
Harvard offices seek jobs and mentors for undergraduates
The SIGnboard
News from Shared Interest Groups
Harvard class colors and trademark clothing
A class tradition refurbished, and “Harvard Yard” threads
Reconstructed Sassetta altarpiece
Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.
