March-April 2015
Features
An Extra Layer of Care
The progress of palliative medicine
Good Design
A public interest movement redefines architecture.
Vita: Lafayette
Brief life of an American champion: 1757-1834
Computing in the Classroom
From the “Teaching Machine” to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
How Globalization Begets Inequality
Modeling how globalization leaves the least-skilled workers behind
Self-Regulating Coffee Drinkers?
A new Harvard School of Public Health study suggests people naturally regulate their coffee consumption.
Animating Music
Two scholars—in jazz, and in German music—team up on a tool that makes musical structure visible.
John Harvard's Journal University news
A New Era in Allston
After years of planning, significant development in Allston is imminent.
Harvard Portrait: Vijay Iyer
Harvard’s first tenured professor and jazz-artist-in-residence.
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Brevia
Honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sexual-assault settlement, honor codes, HUB hoopla, and more
The Undergraduate: To Give and Take Care
Coping with what the college brochures don’t tell you
Championship Complications
Pursuing another Ivy championship, the men’s basketball team finds new challenges.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Orchestrating Opera’s Emotions
Conductor Sara Jobin highlights the intimate stories within grand productions.
His Own “Decisive Moment”
Photographer Tim Carlson focuses on athletes in nature.
Open Book: Discerning a Blink
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith ’94 crafts a memoir.
Speak, Memory
Dissecting her diary, a writer weaponizes solipsism.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Manchester, Redux
Art, history, and eclectic restaurants—less than an hour away
Visiting Manchester, NH
Things to do and places to go eat in Manchester, New Hampshire
Grow, Pick, Cook
Bucolic Powisset Farm has a strong Community Supported Agriculture program.
Finding Our Way
A new exhibit traces navigation by mariners from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Bette Davis at the Schlesinger
The pick for Schlesinger Library Movie Night is Dark Victory
Take Me Out
A new baseball exhibit at the Concord Museum is curated by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Irish Pictures
Irish film festival at the Somerville Theater
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
No Hoof, No Horse
How a farrier spends her days
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
The slates for this spring’s elections
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
Honoring the providers of exemplary service and exceptional programming
A Special Notice Regarding Commencement Day
Guidelines from the Commencement Office
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
Alumnae-i Network for Harvard Women
The Classes
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