
Letters on same-sex marriage, cardiac care, engineering in Allston
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

Harvard and world astronomers building Giant Magellan Telescope
The big science of building a giant telescope
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race
Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.
Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed
Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos
John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela
Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse
Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.
“My Micro NY” units were created by three Harvard GSD alumni
With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.
Mouse model doesn't work for human inflammatory diseases
Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard basketball shocks New Mexico in 2013 NCAA tournament upset
The Crimson shocks New Mexico in NCAA tournament upset, loses in 2nd round.
More Harvard e-mail investigations disclosed
Fallout from cheating investigation widens as additional reviews of a resident dean’s accounts are reported to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Harvard's edX venture: growth and challenges
A first-year report on HarvardX and edX, the online-education partnership with MIT
Headlines from Harvard history, May-June 1913-1998
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Martin Puchner, author and professor of drama and of English
The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.
Harvard fundraising needs and competition
The University approaches a public fundraising drive
An Irish Harvard College student's local family
The Undergraduate, from Ireland, finds friendship in a local host family.
Harvard news: Oprah Winfrey, Cass R. Sunstein, College costs, and more
Harvard news: Oprah at Commencement, Cass R. Sunstein, College admissions and costs, union contract, quiz-show titles overturned, sustainable-investing vice president, and more
Harvard's Nico Weiler is a pole vault champion
Nico Weiler clears inhuman heights, and not by human instinct.
Women’s water polo player Aisha Price is one of Harvard’s leading scorers
Women’s water polo player Aisha Price is one of Harvard’s leading scorers.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Soman Chainani's new fantasy-adventure novel is a fairy tale for today’s world
A fairy tale for today’s world
History of napalm origins at Harvard
A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah
Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story
Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood
Recent books by E.O. Wilson, Ezekiel Emanuel, Elliott Abrams, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Christoph Irmscher biography of Louis Agassiz reviewed by James Hanken
The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
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.

Memoir of "Lighthouse Thomas," A.B. 1838: from a hole in the ground to Harvard
From a hole in the ground to Harvard