Letters
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Letters from our readers
November-December 2009
Features
Immersed in Africa
Students and service at a new frontier
Professor Video
Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom
From AIDS 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.
Ayn Rand
Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist
The Ph.D. Problem
On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Evolution by Fire
A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.
Learning by Degrees
With “spaced education,” a surgeon offers a better way to learn.
Taming Turbulence
Orchid bees in flight extend their hind legs for stability.
A New Twist on Nature/Nuture
Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.
John Harvard's Journal University news
A Gallery Glows Again
The Great Mammal Hall in the Harvard Museum of Natural History is restored and reopened.
$11 Billion Less
A status report on the state of the endowment
John Mugane
Meet the director of Harvard’s African language program.
The "New Normal"
President Faust opens the academic year with a State of the University address.
Yesterday's News
Headlines from Harvard history
Pictures in the 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.
Training Leaders to Transform Education
The Graduate School of Education creates a new doctor of education leadership program.
FAS's Progress--and Prognosis
An early-semester financial talk by the dean
Brevia
Short takes on recent news
Critical Mass, and World-Class
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences develops a 10-year strategic plan.
Post Pre-Med
A senior assesses life at—and after—college without the pre-med track.
Sagittarian Students
Renaissance for the Archery Club
A Promising Start
Football kicks off against Holy Cross, Brown, and Lehigh
29-29, Forever
A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Theater As If It Matters
Diane Paulus, the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, has an ambitious populist vision.
The High-rise Ecotopia
An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78
Again, A Dangerous Art
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
The Son Also Rises
David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
Off the Shelf
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
