Letters
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Humanities hubris, hoop humor, undergraduate prolixity
July-August 2014
Features
Disruptive Genius
Innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car
Tiananmen Plus Twenty-five
Harvard scholars recall the Tiananmen era and ponder its continuing impact
Vita: Felipe Poey
Brief life of Cuba’s greatest naturalist: 1799-1891
Rebooting Social Science
The interdisciplinary Tobin Project addresses real-world problems.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Human-Family Reunions
Genetics sheds light on early human history.
A Hemlock Farewell
A tiny insect, the woolly adelgid, is killing off these giant evergreens.
Crafting Color
Inspired by birds’ feathers, engineers craft long-lasting structural colors.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Graduating, Briskly
The University’s 363rd Commencement, featuring George H. W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Michael R. Bloomberg, and more
Honoris Causa
At the 363rd Commencement, honorary degrees for George H. W. Bush, Michael R. Bloomberg, Aretha Franklin, Isabel Allende, Joseph Stiglitz, and more
Commencement Confetti
Class of 2014 careers and concerns, hockey jersey for the Corporation's senior fellow, degrees conferred, and more
Talks, and a Text
President Drew Faust on universities' role, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on tolerance, and a seventieth reunion puts learning and life in perspective
Laugh Lines
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
The Divestment Debate
The temperature rises as students, faculty members, and administrators disagree on University investments in fossil-fuel producers.
Addressing Sexual Assaults
Harvard reacts to sexual assaults with new policies and a task force to address issues of campus culture.
Harvard Portrait: Naomi Oreskes
Harvard historian of science Naomi Oreskes takes on climate-change skeptics.
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Spring, Fevered
Adopting a College honor code, addressing e-mail privacy, moving from courses to credits, and more
Renewing the Coop
From rebates to a discount, retailing remodeled
University People
National Academy scientists, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Radcliffe Fellows, and more
Capital-Campaign Compendium
Fundraising launches for the Business, Dental, Divinity, and Kennedy Schools
Treasurer Transition
The Corporation’s senior financial leadership changes.
Brevia
Harvard Business School’s Chao Center, College admissions, endowment managers’ compensation, and more
Yoga for Lacrosse
Stretching for success
Sports Wrap
Harvard crew has a winning season
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Relational Lens
Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.
Cancer Chronicle
Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.
“Chorus of Soloists”
The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation
Rhode Island Blues
Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Lives in Art
Early American artifacts help animate history.
Funkin’ It Up
Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.
Retreat and Recreate: Peddocks Island
This Boston Harbor island offers an urban oasis.
Food Fiesta
A diversity of Latin American food shines in East Boston.
Nepal in Pictures
Nepalese history revealed in photographs
The Many Faces of Boston
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
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