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Meet Harvard Squared
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
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
Tobin Project real-world social science, inequality, regulation
The interdisciplinary Tobin Project addresses real-world problems.
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.
Dan Boyne helps lacrosse players with yoga
Stretching for success
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
Cogswell's Grant, an Historic New England property, offers American artifacts
Early American artifacts help animate history.
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.

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