Letters
A Modest Proposal
Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research
Cambridge 02138
Readers respond to articles on football, sexual assault, the Social Progress Index, divestment, and more.
Wise Restraints
A letter from President Faust about Harvard Law School
Congratulations, Contributors
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
January-February 2016
Features
When Water Is Safer Than Land
Harvard human-rights expert Jacqueline Bhabha critiques the inadequate response to the world’s migration crises.
Cora Du Bois
Brief life of a formidable anthropologist: 1903-1991
Rhetoric and Law
The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer
Street Doctor
James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Rationality and Robots
New thinking machines demand a new economic science.
Mimicking Organs
The Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips could transform drug testing and personalized medicine.
Capital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Fish Tales
A lively exhibit debuts at the Museum of Natural History.
The Fiscal Norm
The University's annual financial report
Overhauling the Endowment
Harvard Management Company makes extensive changes to enhance investment performance.
Faculty Figures
Constrained growth in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Teaching and Learning: Taking Stock
The provost on the prospects for Harvard’s MOOCs, and other developments in teaching and learning
Harvard Portrait: Yosvany Terry
A well-traveled Afro-Cuban jazz musician lands at Harvard.
Harvard Law Weighs In
Updates on The Harvard Campaign
Engineering a School’s Future
SEAS dean Frank Doyle shares insights.
Henry the Great
A tribute to Henry Rosovsky from Harvard Magazine
On Campus, Concisely
College race debates reach Harvard, admissions adjudication, again, the launch of the Harvard Global Institute, and General Education revisited
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Brevia
Medical dean stepping down, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, more conservative Winthrop House addition, and more
My Harvard Education
Learning “what it means to be a walking disruption”
Thrice Titled
A fine finish to a nearly flawless football season
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Lost in Ideas
Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Beyond Brahminism
How Richard Henry Dana Jr. came to hate slavery and injustice
Hearing History
After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.
Off the Shelf
Recent books cover the origins of mambo, American economic growth, cancer, landscape, and more
The Elephant in the Cutting Room
A writer balances structure and spontaneity in her latest novel.
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Seeking Greenery
Tower Hill Botanic Garden’s “Month of Flowers”
Raising the Barre
A long-time Cambridge arts organization is poised to grow.
WinterFest Weekends
Sledding, Nordic skiing, and art at Fruitlands Museum, in Harvard, Massachusetts
Ubu Abounds
A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi
Kitchen Arts
Greater Boston’s classes for aspiring and amateur cooks
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Mapping the Ganges
A decade spent exploring India’s dynamic sacred river
Parachute Specialist
Job counselor Dick Bolles ’50 keeps “chugging away.”
Encouraging Esperanto
Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.
