Slow Learners
An editor's guide to this issue’s perspectives on teaching and learning
Letters from Readers
On the humanities, the Internet, Alzheimer’s care, and more
November-December 2013
Life in the Harvard Houses, now being renewed
The singular character of the College’s residences, now in renewal
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Harvard landscape architecture professor: a profile
Michael Van Valkenburgh helps lead a second great age of city-making.
Harvard’s Michael McElroy has a scenario for approving the Keystone XL Pipeline
Should the president approve construction?
![J.C. Buttre’s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_teaser_wide/public/img/article/1013/nd13_page_047_01_.jpg.webp?itok=_fRKuRcM "Engraving by J.C. Buttre/Library of Congress")
Brief life of statesman-orator Edward Everett, by Castle Freeman
Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865
Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention
Teaching students the value of deceleration and immersive attention
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Collaboration between Hitler and Hollywood Documented by Harvard's Urwand
A new book documents censorship by Hollywood at the bidding of Hitler's Nazi government.
Harvard researchers study technology's effect on adolescent development
Apps are shaping teens' notions of identity, intimacy, and imagination.
Harvard Researchers probe Cancer genetics to target patient treatments
Genetic information about specific cancer can lead to better patient treatments
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard launches $6.5-billion capital campaign
The Harvard Campaign's $6.5-billion goal and priorities
Bill Gates at Harvard
An unconventional undergraduate's College years, and the birth of the personal-computer software industry
Harvard capital campaign leaders speak out
A taste of the talk
President Drew Faust Harvard capital campaign address
President Drew Faust’s campaign address
Dean Michael D. Smith discusses goals for the $2.5-billion FAS campaign
Dean Michael D. Smith discusses the priorities of the $2.5-billion FAS campaign.
Harvard launches masters degree in computational sciences and engineering
A new master’s degree teaches computation and modeling in the age of big data.
Harvard bioengineering professor Jennifer Lewis prints 3-D on a micron scale
The bioengineering professor does 3-D printing on a micron scale.
Harvard endowment up $2 billion to $32.7 billion
Investment gains and asset growth after a down year
Harvard online learning and teaching
Further developments in online learning and improving teaching
Headlines from Harvard history, November-December 1913-1988
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
A Harvard senior reflects on coping with dashed hopes and seizing opportunities
Coping with dashed hopes and seizing opportunities
Harvard news: Southeast Asian studies, biotech fellows, digital journalism
Harvard news: Southeast Asian studies, biotech fellows, digital journalism, and more
Harvard football 2013: The Crimson beat the Toreros 42-20, and Brown 41-23
Crimson football finds redemption in California.
Point guards Siyani Chambers and Brandyn Curry explain their craft
The art of playing point guard
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Composer Michael Friedman and The Civilians
Composer Michael Friedman’s “investigative theater”
Excerpt from "Fire and Light" by James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47, on intellect, governance, and the Enlightenment
Book reviewer George Scialabba practices a radical craft
“One of America’s best all-round intellects” scrutinizes books.
Recent books on inequality in Australia, Harvard math, life after law, and more
Recent books with Harvard connections
Murray Dewart's sculptures embody life from the inside out
Bronze and granite come alive for Murray Dewart.
Derek Bok of Harvard on U.S. higher education, reviewed by Richard Morrill
Derek Bok’s new book on higher education in America, reviewed by Richard Morrill
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Morehouse Man, Redux
John S. Wilson Jr. grabs the chance to realize his calling.
Harvard Alumni Honored for Outstanding Service
Six win awards for their years of volunteering.
Pop Up Repair Impresaria
Sandra Goldmark ’97 puts the focus on repair, not replace.
The SIGnboard
Shared Interest Group events in November and December
The Classes
Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.
A petting zoo at Harvard, a true Harvard/Yale man, and "Lies You Wanted to Hear"
Petting zoo on the Plaza, a Harvard/Yale man, and a late-blooming novelist
