September-October 2015

Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid

Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid through private enterprise

by John S. Rosenberg

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

by Sophia Nguyen

Corita Kent's screenprints are part of Pop art's history and culture

A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.

by Jonathan Shaw

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

Harvard study: “Cowboy Doctors” partly to blame for healthcare costs

Overly aggressive physicians account for significant healthcare cost, according to a recent study.

Harvard study finds Mars was likely cold and icy

Researchers suspect ancient Martian climate was cold and icy.

Harvard Business School studies: online sharing can help people, hurt businesses

According to two HBS studies, sharing can benefit individuals but hurt businesses.

John Harvard's Journal University news

Harvard's summer of heavy construction

Overhauling the Kennedy School campus, the Business School’s new executive-education center, and College House renewal

Harvard Medical School is reforming its four-year curriculum

Harvard Medical School's new curriculum emphasizes the process of learning to learn rather than rote memorization.

Catherine Brekus, Harvard historian, studies women religious leaders

A Harvard Divinity School specialist on women in early America 

Kennedy School dean, Alice in Wonderland, James F. Rothenberg

The Kennedy School’s new dean, Alice in Wonderland exhibition, the late James F. Rothenberg, and more

Harvard Business School studies gender effects

The Business School looks at gender effects within organizations—and its own walls.

Headlines from Harvard history, September-October 1910-1995

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

An undergraduate discovers the psychic benefits of running

The undergraduate finds an unexpected route to well-being.

Harvard Magazine’s 2015-2016 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Fellows

The magazine’s Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective.

Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Recent books with Harvard connections

Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more

"mathematics without apologies," by Michael Harris, reviewed by Avner Ash

Two practitioners consider the enterprise of pure mathematics.

Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond

The Crane Estate in Ipswich Massachusetts

Restorations revive the grand spirit of a North Shore estate.

Day of the Dead at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology highlights the holiday on November 1.

Caribbean food in Boston and at the Cambridge Carnival

The Cambridge Carnival celebrates food and culture.

Theo Jansen's "strandbeests" visit the Peabody Essex Museum

Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests

The Hull Lifesaving Museum highlights U.S. Coast Guard and maritime rescues

The South Shore's Hull Lifesaving Museum reflects more than a century of rescues at sea.

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

A Broadcast Cornucopia

For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”

175 Candles

The Harvard Alumni Association celebrates its founding.

Global Alumni Fan

A short profile of Paul L. Choi, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association 

A Lover of All Things English

Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.

Query on Bruno Munari

Did you take VES 130 or VES 150 during spring term 1967?

How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run

How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run

Joseph Rock and his plant-collecting adventures in 1920s China

An adventuresome Arnold Arboretum botanizer's heroics in 1920s China

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