Touchpoints, tea party, theater's future, water woes, and more reader letters
Touchpoints, tea party, theater's future, water woes, medieval literature, a life of faith, and more
March-April 2012
Al Franken, satirist and statesman, profiled
The satirist and comedian Al Franken has a new role: statesman.
Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques
"Active learning" may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years.
Fanny Bullock Workman, feisty mountaineer
Brief life of a feisty mountaineer: 1859-1925
Traumatic brain injury: research on causes, treatment, clinical applications
From causes to clinical applications and treatment, Harvard researchers investigate traumatic brain injury.
Harvard deans urge renewing civic education
Time to restore American higher education’s lost mission
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Todd Rogers studies how people dodge questions without being detected
How people successfully dodge questions and how to prevent them from getting away with it.
In Adam Cohen's lab, neurons to light up as they fire
Harvard researchers create neurons that light up when they fire.
Geoffrey Jones studies America's forgotten green entrepreneurs
Geoffrey Jones studies America's forgotten green entrepreneurs.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard curricular and research connections to India
President Faust's first visit to the South Asian nation highlights research and curricular connections old and new.
Joseph Aldy studies and devises climate change policy and energy policy
Profile of a scholar and adviser to presidents on energy policy and climate change policy
Lyonel Feininger's photography displayed at Harvard
Displaying a fascinating body of work
Cherry Blossom Festival centennial marked with exhibit of Japanese paintings
Masterworks of Japanese painting on display for the Cherry Blossom Festival's centennial
Headlines from Harvard's history
Headlines from Harvard's history
Joseph Martin, former Harvard Medical School dean, writes a memoir
Excerpt from Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin's memoir
Allston competition, Harvard admissions, primate care, and other news
Competition for Allston development, College admissions, Old Leverett House renewal, primate care, and more
The Undergraduate discovers a different life off campus
Discovering diverse concerns outside the bubble of campus life
Melanie Baskind stars in lacrosse and soccer at Harvard
Lacrosse and soccer star Melanie Baskind scores with synergy.
Fenway Park's first pitch: 1912 Harvard vs. Red Sox game
Account of the first game at Fenway Park in 1912, Harvard vs. Red Sox
Harry Lewis explains how baseball explains everything
New book shows how baseball words apply to all of life.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Art Security Expert Anthony Amore on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
A new book shatters myths about art theft.
Leonce Gaiter's Western novel describes violence in 1890s Indian Territory
A gritty Western depicts a brief, violent crusade.
Megan Amram, Twitter comedienne
LA comedy writer Megan Amram has mastered the form of the Twitter joke.
Megan Amram's top tweets
Some of Megan Amram's twitter gems.
Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography India
Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
William Stuntz, late Harvard law professor, on American criminal justice
America’s flawed criminal justice system
Recent books with Harvard connections
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.
Kahlil Gibran draws Harvard's Charles William Eliot, plus Arnoldia's centennial
The prophet (Gibran) and the president (Eliot), plus Arnoldia turns 100.
