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Letters from our readers
September-October 2010
Features
The Social Epidemic
Harvard professors and students take aim at the social and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV.
The Mindfulness Chronicles
Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.
Urban Utopias
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.
Francis Cabot Lowell
Brief life of an American entrepreneur: 1775-1817
In the Wake of War
Father and son, lawyer and philosopher debate torture, surveillance, and presidential power
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Making Memories
Neurobiologist Michael Greenberg investigates how memories form at a molecular level, and discovers a new class of RNA.
Ecosystem Patterns and Productivity
Robert Pringle says the grid-like distribution of Kenyan termite mounds helps answer an old question about ecosystems.
“Good” Cells Gone “Bad”
David Scadden studies the environmental cues that can cause normal cells to become diseased.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Deconstructionism
Gutting the Fogg Art Museum on the way to renovating it
Conflicts of Interest, Revisited
As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.
The New Tenure Track
Revised promotion policies transform younger faculty members' lives—and promise sweeping changes in the professoriate as a whole.
Josh Kantor
Meet the Law School librarian who plays for the Red Sox.
Activist Administrator
Executive vice president Katie Lapp is swiftly altering the ways Harvard budgets, builds, computes, and more.
Yesterday's News
Headlines from Harvard history
In Other Financial News…
Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals
Brevia
Canaday's solar roof, a rare giant flower, oil-spill commissioner, and more
Subtraction and Decision
The Undergraduate, halfway through the College, finds time speeding up, in academics and in life.
New Fellows
Two sterling student writers join the magazine as Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.
Muse of Movement
Dawn Murdock Stenis directs Harvard’s extensive fitness programs.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Tropical Abstractions
Painter George Oommen creates distinctive images of Kerala, India—his homeland. With video of the artist at work.
Afropolitans
The band Soulfège has international sound and a positive message. With a music video.
On Babies' Behavior
Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's breakthrough in understanding newborns as complex, capable beings
A Garden of Prose
Francine Prose writes fiction and nonfiction in many forms. With an audio clip of the author discussing her writing process.
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Wrought from Ruins
A Kennedy School alumnus tries to revive a Rust Belt town.
Connecting the Harvard Dots
Harvard Alumni Association president Robert R. Bowie Jr. is passionate about the “Harvard network.”
Asian American Alumni to Gather
President Drew Faust will welcome attendees as the Shared Interest Group hosts its inaugural conference (October 15-17).
Hiram Hunn Awards
Nine alumni will be recognized by the College admissions office for their long and loyal service in recruiting and interviewing prospective students.
The SIGnboard
Early fall Shared Interest Group events
Physician Poet
Experiences as patient and doctor have shaped David Moolten’s commitment to writing.
An Unexpected Farmer
How Manhattan journalist Kristin Kimball found the best job in the world.
Internet Sheriff
Entrepreneur and author Michael Fertik aims to help folks keep their reputations safe online.
The Classes
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