Letters
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The meaning of life, diabetes, Gandhi, burlesque
July-August 2011
Features
Restaurants Rampant
Dining out is surging—yet there are reservations.
Mary Costelloe Berenson
Brief life of a Renaissance scholar: 1864-1945
Reefs at Risk
The world's most fragile marine ecosystems are in decline.
Time to Electrify
Reducing our dependence on imported oil—while addressing the threat of climate change
Colleges in Crisis
Disruptive change comes to American higher education
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Swerves
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
Women and Alcohol
Studying the differences in addiction and recovery between men and women
Snuffing Flames with Electricity
Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Commencement Witchcraft
Highlights from Harvard's 360th Commencement
Honoris Causa
The honorary-degree recipients of 2011
Words to Live By
A sampling of Commencement week speeches
Commencement Confetti
An omnium-gatherum of notes and statistics, vital and otherwise
Center of Attention
Human touches within Commencement's pomp
The New Provost
An experienced Stanford administrator, an expert on health policy and economics, returns to take a big job at his alma mater.
Peter Der Manuelian
Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.
Fellows Three
New members enlarge the Harvard Corporation
Lessons from Libya?
Faculty consulting for the Qaddafi government prompts a debate on academic principles.
Yesterday's News
Headlines from Harvard's history
Marc Hauser’s Return
The psychology professor returns to Harvard, but not to teaching.
University People
Arrivals, appointments, awards
Ants through the Ages
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
Brevia
Radcliffe Institute's dean steps down, FAS's fitter fisc, renovation for Old Quincy, J-term update, and other Harvard news
Mentoring and Moral Experience
A student's tribute to medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman
Messy Questions, Messy Answers
A senior ponders cultural capital, socioeconomic realities, and career choices.
Dominant Flotilla
A stellar spring for men's crew
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Channel Cerfing
With sound, image, and word, Chris Cerf teaches the basics.
Fakery and Shakespeare
A con man, his son, and a fiction on two levels
A Baton with Sting
Conductor Sarah Hicks spans Prokofiev and the Police.
(Un)common Sense
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."
Devoted to Debt
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
The Brain As Art
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
The Senior Seniors
Marjorie Thomas '42 and Donald F. Brown '30 led the alumni parade on Commencement afternoon.
Graduate School Medalists
Four scholars whose contributions to society were fostered at Harvard
Voting Results
The newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association
Harvard Medalists
For outstanding service to the University, a Commencement afternoon thank-you
Cambridge Scholars
Four new graduates head back to school—in the other Cambridge
Alumni Gifts
A record-breaking fiftieth-reunion total is one among many contributions.
A Singular Woman’s Biographer
Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.
The SIGnboard
Summer events hosted by Shared Interest Groups
The Classes
Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.
