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A letter from the editor

To Sit at the Welcome Table

A letter from President Faust

July-August 2014

Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation

Innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car

by Craig Lambert

Harvard scholars recall the Tiananmen era and ponder its continuing impact

Harvard scholars recall the Tiananmen era and ponder its continuing impact

Brief life of Cuban naturalist Felipe Poey, by Lindsay Brownell

Brief life of Cuba’s greatest naturalist: 1799-1891

by Lindsay Brownell

Tobin Project real-world social science, inequality, regulation

The interdisciplinary Tobin Project addresses real-world problems.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

Early human history brought to light by genetics

Genetics sheds light on early human history.

Harvard researcher David Foster on the slow death of the hemlock tree

A tiny insect, the woolly adelgid, is killing off these giant evergreens.

Harvard engineers craft long-lasting structural colors

Inspired by birds’ feathers, engineers craft long-lasting structural colors.

John Harvard's Journal University news

Harvard's 363d Commencement, with Aretha Franklin and George H. W. Bush

The University’s 363rd Commencement, featuring George H. W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Michael R. Bloomberg, and more

Harvard honorary degrees George H. W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Isabel Allende

At the 363rd Commencement, honorary degrees for George H. W. Bush, Michael R. Bloomberg, Aretha Franklin, Isabel Allende, Joseph Stiglitz, and more

Harvard Commencement 2014 graduates plans, Barbara Bush, and more

Class of 2014 careers and concerns, hockey jersey for the Corporation's senior fellow, degrees conferred, and more

Harvard Commencement Michael Bloomberg Drew Faust

President Drew Faust on universities' role, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on tolerance, and a seventieth reunion puts learning and life in perspective

Harvard Commencement: Salman Kahn, Mindy Kaling, Michael Bloomberg

Fun during Commencement week: Salman Kahn on the luxe Business School, Mindy Kaling on why law rocks, Michael R. Bloomberg on strong-armed fundraising, and a helmeted Latinist

Harvard divestment controversy

The temperature rises as students, faculty members, and administrators disagree on University investments in fossil-fuel producers.

Harvard addresses the issue of sexual assaults on campus

Harvard reacts to sexual assaults with new policies and a task force to address issues of campus culture.

Harvard historian of science Naomi Oreskes takes on climate-change skeptics

Harvard historian of science Naomi Oreskes takes on climate-change skeptics.

Headlines from Harvard history, July-August 1914-1994

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Harvard Coop adopts discounts

From rebates to a discount, retailing remodeled

Harvard honor code, e-mail privacy, gender-neutral housing

Adopting a College honor code, addressing e-mail privacy, moving from courses to credits, and more

Harvard National Academy of Sciences, Pulitzer Prize

National Academy scientists, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Radcliffe Fellows, and more

Harvard’s Business, Dental, Divinity, and Government Schools raise funds

Fundraising launches for the Business, Dental, Divinity, and Kennedy Schools

Harvard College admissions, business school center, endowment compensation

Harvard Business School’s Chao Center, College admissions, endowment managers’ compensation, and more

Harvard senior financial management changes

The Corporation’s senior financial leadership changes.

Harvard crew has a winning season

Harvard crew has a winning season

Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more

Geoffrey Biddle takes extraordinary family photographs

Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.

Artist Matt Freedman’s “cancer treatment journal” about adenoid cystic carcinoma

Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.

Evan Osnos on contemporary China, Age of Ambition, reviewed by Edward Steinfeld

The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation

Jean's McGarry's dark fiction about a regional subculture of Rhode Island

Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond

New Orleans jazz comes to Cambridge

Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.

Peddocks Island: Hike, bike, boat, swim, fish, and camp in Boston Harbor

This Boston Harbor island offers an urban oasis.

Latin American cuisine in East Boston

A diversity of Latin American food shines in East Boston.

Nepal's dramatic evolution is captured in photographs

Nepalese history revealed in photographs

Boston's immigration trends on exhibit at Boston Public Library

A Boston Public Library exhibit illustrates immigration history.

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

Playing Together, Staying Together

Peabody Terrace Children’s Center celebrates a golden anniversary.

HAA’s New Helmsman

Harvard Alumni Association director Philip W. Lovejoy

All the World’s a Page

New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.

Harvard Medalists

Four alumni are honored for their contributions to the University.

Centennial Medalists

Graduate school alumni receive highest honors

Senior Alumni

Harvard’s oldest living graduates

Election Results

Newly elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association

Cambridge Scholars

Four seniors have won scholarships to study at Cambridge University.

Alumni Gifts

A “great show of commitment to the community of Harvard and Radcliffe”

The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot

The Harvard Alumni for Mental Health Shared Interest Group

The Classes

Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.

Samuel Clark, in costume, shows real tourists around Yale. He later said he was trying to be helpful.

Touring Yale, trombone sextet, and talking back to John Foster Dulles

Touring Yale, trombone sextet, and talking back to John Foster Dulles

Harvard’s 1906 Dolmetsch harpsichord has two keyboards, or “manuals.”

Two classic harpsichords that Harvard owns

Two keyboards, each with a story to tell

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The Classes

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