Letters on American competitiveness, free will, climate change, and more

Letters on American competitiveness, free will, climate change, and more

Additional Harvard Magazine November-December 2012 issue letters to the editor

Additional November-December issue letters to the editor

November-December 2012

Profile of HSPH professor Theresa Betancourt's research on neglected children

Theresa Betancourt studies the world’s most neglected and traumatized youths.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Helen Vendler on admitting and nurturing creative undergraduates

Helen Vendler on how to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future

Alex Dumas, inspiration for "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Tom Reiss

Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806

by Tom Reiss

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

Mercury pollution in the Arctic flows from Russian rivers says Daniel Jacob

Arctic mercury pollution flows from rivers, not the atmosphere.

Harvard study of teens links soft-drink consumption to violence

A Harvard School of Public Health study links soda to teen violence.

The general social survey has documented American attitudes since 1970

The General Social Survey asks Americans about issues from race to free speech, confirming some trends and contradicting popular reports of others.

John Harvard's Journal University news

Restoring Chinese monument Harvard campus

Preserving an historic Chinese monument, long neglected

Harvard College investigates cheating

The College investigates more than 100 students in an exam-cheating case—and explores broader teaching and learning concerns

Harvard senior governing board elects Tuchman, Wells

Harvard's senior governing board completes its expansion to 13 members, electing Jessica Tuchman Mathews '67 and Theodore V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. '76

Harvard endowment declines on flat returns

In a year of flat investment returns, the endowment declines as distributions support Harvard University operations

Harvard launches first edX courses

Harvard begins massive online courses through its edX venture with MIT and Berkeley, aiming to improve education on and beyond campus

Harvard expands Tozzer anthropology library

Consolidating the anthropology department by raising the roof and renovating the library

Harvard 2012 arts and sciences finances and ambitions

In the dean's annual report for 2012, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences achieves a budget goal—and sketches its ambitions

The Undergraduate ponders her hometown, Harvard, and a village in Tanzania

The Undergraduate ponders her hometown, Harvard, and a village in Tanzania.

Harvard news: Grad School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, rugby, and more

Harvard news: Graduate School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, University Professor Eric Maskin, and more

Harvard Football 2012's 12-game winning streak

Bite down. Grind it out. And score profusely.

Olympian Temi Fagbenle of Harvard women's basketball

Basketball’s Temi Fagbenle—from London to Lavietes

Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more

The wealth and fall of David and Jackie Siegel: a documentary

A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”

Evan Thomas's biography of President Eisenhower

In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.

Art installation by Peter Agoos at Boston's Fort Point Channel

Peter Agoos ’75 brightened Boston’s public art scene this summer.

Recent books by John Updike, George Vaillant, Marjorie Garber, and others

Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections

Vegan cookbooks for grill and with alcoholic ingredients

Plant-based pleasure with spirit and sizzle

The geometric works of sculptor Morton C. Bradley

The geometric works of sculptor Morton C. Bradley

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

“The Busiest Man in Poker”

Bernard Lee calls, raises, deals, and explains the booming card game.

Slow Dancing

A letter from President Drew Faust

Aloian Scholars

Aloian Scholars improve living communities at Harvard

Press Women

Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.

The SIGnboard

Shared Interest Group events in November and December

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The Pennoyer schoolhouse bell, from Pulham St. Mary in England, now at Leverett House

Harvard’s Pennoyer bell, Allan R. Robinson, and "Illegitimum non carborundum"

Of the Pennoyer bell, and Harvard Bandsman Allan R. Robinson, Latin librettist

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