Letters
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Letters on same-sex marriage, cardiac care, engineering in Allston
Some Changes
A letter from the editor
Connections and Competition in Asia
A letter from President Faust
May-June 2013
Features
Seeing Stars
The big science of building a giant telescope
Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray
Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.
The Urban Jobs Crisis
Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos
Vita: John Usher Monro
Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
On the Trail of Human Diversity
Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.
Living Large in Tiny Apartments
With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.
Mice Aren’t Men
Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard Makes Hoops History
The Crimson shocks New Mexico in NCAA tournament upset, loses in 2nd round.
E-mail Imbroglio
Fallout from cheating investigation widens as additional reviews of a resident dean’s accounts are reported to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
HarvardX at One
A first-year report on HarvardX and edX, the online-education partnership with MIT
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Harvard Portrait: Martin Puchner
The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.
Campaign Chatter
The University approaches a public fundraising drive
My Families
The Undergraduate, from Ireland, finds friendship in a local host family.
Brevia
Harvard news: Oprah at Commencement, Cass R. Sunstein, College admissions and costs, union contract, quiz-show titles overturned, sustainable-investing vice president, and more
Up, Up, and Over!
Nico Weiler clears inhuman heights, and not by human instinct.
Aisha Price: Women’s Water Polo
Women’s water polo player Aisha Price is one of Harvard’s leading scorers.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Princess Not-So-Charming
A fairy tale for today’s world
Like Garlic or Burning Matches
A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah
Soul Beyond the Skin
Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
A Scientist in Full
The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Leading Man
A Broadway actor on the “true spark of theater”
Vote Now
2013 candidates for Harvard University Overseers and HAA elected directors
The SIGnboard
Shared Interest Group events in May and June
The Classes
Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.
