Letters
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Letters on loving L.A., Robert Frost, Keystone XL, and more
Counting Costs
A letter from the editor
See, Compare, Reason, Decide
A letter from President Faust
March-April 2014
Features
Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal
Information science promises to change the world.
Vita: Henry A. Murray
Brief life of a personality psychologist: 1893-1988
Advancing Leadership
“Third-stage” learners using a novel Harvard curriculum engage social challenges.
Nuclear Weapons or Democracy
“Out of ratio” weapons are essentially ungovernable.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Sex Science and Gender Culture
Sarah Richardson presents a history of the sex chromosomes in science and culture.
Fusing Faculties of Mind
Brain-to-brain interface lets a human control a rat's tail.
The Price of Healthy Eating
With changed policies and food supply systems, healthy foods would cost less.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Hub of the (Undergraduate) Universe
Renovating the Inn at Harvard for student swing space as College House renewal scales up
The Long Game in Allston
An update on Harvard’s expanding campus
Harvard Portrait: Huntington Lambert
The “handyman” dean who runs continuing education and University extension
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Brevia
Dunster House redesign, the University’s benefits costs, primate-care penalties, spatiotemporal thinking, and more
The College’s New Dean
Rakesh Khurana, a scholar of leadership development and psychology, becomes Harvard College dean.
The Undergraduate: Baby Talk
The Undergraduate ponders a phenomenon both alien and familiar.
Thicker than Water
Chris, Tim, and Sean Satterthwaite all compete in Ivy League swimming meets.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Styled Blue Yonder
Jessica Ambats '95 makes amazing photographs of airplanes from the air.
Midlife Leading Man
Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris ’85, a prime-time stalwart
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Design in Layers
Paper artist Robert Pillsbury ’61 makes his work from stacked cut sheets of paper.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“A Fighting Faith”
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s "fighting faith" in liberalism, revealed in his letters
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Shades of Justice
A profile of Avis Buchanan, director of the D.C. Public Defender Service
Reardon to Retire
The HAA’s executive director will step down on June 30.
Alumni Learning, Online
HarvardX for Alumni to be launched in March
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
Election ballots will be mailed on April 1.
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
The 2013 honorees
Guidelines for Commencement Day
An update from the Commencement Office
Citizen Soldier
A profile of former Marine Seth Moulton ’01, M.B.A.-M.P.P. ’11
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
The Harvard Alumni for Agriculture Shared Interest Group
The Classes
Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.