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March-April 2012
Al Franken: You Can Call Me Senator
The satirist and comedian Al Franken has a new role: statesman.
Twilight of the Lecture
"Active learning" may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years.
Vita: Fanny Bullock Workman
Brief life of a feisty mountaineer: 1859-1925
The Traumatized Brain
From causes to clinical applications and treatment, Harvard researchers investigate traumatic brain injury.
Renewing Civic Education
Time to restore American higher education’s lost mission
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
The Art of the Dodge
How people successfully dodge questions and how to prevent them from getting away with it.
Light-Up Neurons
Harvard researchers create neurons that light up when they fire.
The Rise of the Wind Industry
Geoffrey Jones studies America's forgotten green entrepreneurs.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Into India
President Faust's first visit to the South Asian nation highlights research and curricular connections old and new.
Joseph Aldy
Profile of a scholar and adviser to presidents on energy policy and climate change policy
Lyonel Feininger, Photographer
Displaying a fascinating body of work
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard's history
A Blossoming Centennial
Masterworks of Japanese painting on display for the Cherry Blossom Festival's centennial
A Long Way from Longwood
Excerpt from Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin's memoir
Brevia
Competition for Allston development, College admissions, Old Leverett House renewal, primate care, and more
New Life Lessons
Discovering diverse concerns outside the bubble of campus life
Twice, with Alacrity
Lacrosse and soccer star Melanie Baskind scores with synergy.
Fenway Park’s First Pitch
Account of the first game at Fenway Park in 1912, Harvard vs. Red Sox
Lingua Branca
New book shows how baseball words apply to all of life.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Hot Canvases
A new book shatters myths about art theft.
The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang
A gritty Western depicts a brief, violent crusade.
Tweeter Titters
LA comedy writer Megan Amram has mastered the form of the Twitter joke.
Sweet Tweets
Some of Megan Amram's twitter gems.
India’s Sacred Geography
Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Justice Falls Down
America’s flawed criminal justice system
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
A Green Empire
How Anthony Malkin ’84 engineered the largest “green” retrofit ever
Green Engineering
Reducing heating and cooling loads is the first step in the engineering design sequence of any energy efficient building retrofit
Vote Now
Nominations for Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
Alumni Awards
Honors for Harvard Club and Shared Interest Group stalwarts and innovators
Return to Harvard Day
A special invitation for reunion-year alumni and their families
Winter Service Session
Be The Change CEO Kevin Jennings ’85 speaks at Wintersession.
The SIGnboard
News from Shared Interest Groups
Father-Son Venture
Autism tightened the bond between Tom and Ezra Fields-Meyer and led to a moving book.
History Detectives
Utpal Sandesara and Tom Wooten uncover a dam-disaster cover-up.
The Classes
Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.
Cold Meets Flame
The prophet (Gibran) and the president (Eliot), plus Arnoldia turns 100.
