Letters
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Letters on patience and learning, Edward Everett, House life
The New Order
Harvard Magazine's new layout explained
Where Is Harvard?
A letter from President Faust
In Your Service
Recognizing two outstanding contributors to the magazine's contents during 2013
January-February 2014
Features
Disrupted Lives
Sociologist Matthew Desmond studies eviction and the lives of America’s poor.
Extracting the Woodchuck
Robert Frost’s “doubleness,” revealed in his letters—and poems.
The Way of The Blockbuster
In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.
Vita: Ann Petry
Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997
Popular Science
In the Internet era, research moves from professionals’ labs to amateurs’ homes.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
A Poet’s March of Ages
Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.
The Fix in Fossil Fuels
Joseph Aldy examines the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies.
Wearable Robots
Harvard engineers build soft exosuits to aid human movement.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Sowing Seeds
From supporting farmers to probing policy, Harvard people help Myanmar remake its future.
The Entrepreneurs of Ideas
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, and Radcliffe Institute detail campaign goals
Harvard Portrait: John Asher Johnson
An exoplanet hunter joins the faculty
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Fiscal Portrait
A larger deficit and continuing Harvard financial challenges—amid fundraising and rising expenses
Brevia
The Harvard Corporation changes, Rhodes Scholars, new University Professor, Nobelists, and more
The Undergraduate: Goodbye, L.A.
Why one undergraduate transferred to Harvard
Over the Moon
Seven straight wins against Yale, and a shared Ivy title
To Russia, with Gloves
Katey Stone coaches the Olympics-bound U.S. icewomen.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
The Sorcery of Seedpods
Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Sestinas from the Clinic
Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.
Annals of Anxiety
Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.
The Lit City
Sunlight and shadow star in Derek Reist’s urban landscapes.
Made in the U.S.A.
A literary critic on the Great American Novel
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Dudley’s Square Deal
Boston Community Capital's DeWitt Jones promotes affordable housing, energy efficiency, and a mortgage buyback program in low-income communities.
Striving for “A Real Mix of People”
Boston's Dudley Square is a focus of nonprofit community development often led by David Price, executive director of Nuestra Comunidad
Aloian Award Winners
Harvard students who help enhance the quality of life in the dorms win Aloian Awards
Picture-book Publisher
Claudia Bedrick ’85 of Enchanted Lion Books offers an international array of stories to young children.
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
The Harvard Architectural and Urban Society_Alumni Shared Interest Group
Caring for Children in Chennai
An ’09 couple, Michael and Allie Schachter, help child victims of human trafficking in India.
The Classes
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