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Slide show: a reporter's notebook from travels in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya

A reporter's notebook from travels in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya

September-October 2010 Class Notes and Obituaries

Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries published in the print edition of this magazine.

FAS dean details Hauser scientific misconduct

The dean reports eight incidents of misconduct, and explains the faculty's procedures for dealing with them

Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung apply mindfulness techniques to eating

Applying ancient Buddhist mindfulness techniques to eating in the modern world

by Cara Feinberg

Newspaper offers details of Marc Hauser lab investigation

The Chronicle of Higher Education quotes an internal Harvard report it obtained from a former research assistant to psychology professor Marc Hauser.

Harvard Medical School revises conflicts-of-interest policies

As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.

Robert Pringle says termite-mound distribution reveals ecosystem productivity

Robert Pringle says the grid-like distribution of Kenyan termite mounds helps answer an old question about ecosystems.

by Samuel Bjork

Brief life of American textile industry entrepreneur Francis Cabot Lowell

Brief life of an American entrepreneur: 1775-1817

by Dan Yaeger

In photographs by Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Beijing as "urban utopia"

Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.

by John S. Rosenberg

Excerpt from "Nurturing Children and Families," a tribute to T. Berry Brazelton

Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's breakthrough in understanding newborns as complex, capable beings

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history

Innovative museums highlight New England's industrial past

Innovative museums highlight New England's industrial past.

by Nell Porter-Brown