Letters from readers
Letters from our readers
March-April 2010
Fighting malaria with evolutionary biology and genomics
Harvard scientists are using genomic tools to fight newly resurgent malaria.
Changing, Challenging China
A Harvard Magazine roundtable
Super-active students are over-scheduled
College students today lead hyper-active, highly scheduled lives.
American composer Johnny Green
Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Hausmann and Hidalgo find wealthier economies are also more complex
The most prosperous countries have economies that produce a variety of goods.
Torturers think victims expressing pain are guilty
Inflicting pain changes the perceptions of torturers, not necessarily their knowledge.
Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
Physicists Capasso and Yu make many lasers from one
Harvard researchers have developed multibeam, multiwavelength miniature lasers.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard reboots its planned expansion in Allston
With construction on its huge science facility in Allston halted, Harvard reconsiders its planned expansion there.
Construction continues at Harvard Law School, begins at Fogg Art Museum building
Construction continues at the Law School and begins at the Fogg Art Museum.
Emma Dench teaches Roman history and lit
Meet a scholar enthralled by the Romans.
Headlines from Harvard history
Headlines from Harvard history
Harvard Corporation senior fellow James R. Houghton to retire
James R. Houghton, senior fellow of Harvard’s senior governing board, will step down on June 30.
Roundup of recent Harvard news
Short takes on recent Harvard news
Harvard FAS narrows budget chasm
…but more hard work remains to be done.
Boosting faculty-student ties
Boosting faculty-student ties
Badminton is very much alive at Harvard
Chasing a bird that flies indoors at 200 miles per hour
Sports wrap
An update on the basketball and swim teams
DVD documents Harvard football, 1946-1950
A new DVD pays tribute to the “Old Timers,” players from the 1946 through 1950 teams.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Carl Sprague designs film and theater sets
Carl Sprague ’84 designs sets for local theater companies and Hollywood movies.
An excerpt from "Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
A new book collects theater photographs by Angus McBean
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
Indie film producer Mynette Louie interviewed
Film producer Mynette Louie ’97 on films, audiences, and the quest to connect them.
Review of Maurice Charney's “Wrinkled Deep in Time”
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Quotation Q and A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Horseplayer Extraordinaire
Steven Crist '78 is a newspaperman for the turf tribe.
Vote Now
This year's candidates for Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association elected director have been chosen.
Harvard Serves
The Harvard Alumni Association sponsors a global public-service initiative.
Alumni Awards
The winners of the 2010 HAA Clubs and SIGs Committee honors
Return to Harvard Day
An April invitation for all College alumni and alumnae, their spouses, and their high-school-age children
Comings and Goings
A sampling of spring speakers at Harvard clubs around the country
The SIGnboard
News from Shared Interest Groups
A reunion report, and a ringtail cat
Notes on a forty-fifth-reunion report, and a telescope trespasser
Nineteenth-century dancing lessons
A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.
