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Articles about ROTC, Ayn Rand, Orhan Pamuk, AIDS art, and more

Our news roundup also includes a Faust interview, a Mankiw column, and a novel satirizing the world of bestselling novels.

Harvard Square History Quiz

Think you know Harvard Square? Take our quiz—and submit your answers to be enrolled in a contest to win a copy of Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950 by Mo Lotman.

Illustration by Stephen Anderson

Professionalization in the academy

On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal

by Louis Menand

Cruising the Square: The Window Shop restaurant in the 1950s

Photo history of Harvard Square

A new book of photographs tells Harvard Square’s history since the 1950s. Test your own Square knowledge for a chance to win a copy of the book.

by Craig Lambert

Novelist and Wall Streeter Norb Vonnegut, during a book tour in Sydney, Australia

Former financier Norb Vonnegut’s investment-world thriller

Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.

by Craig Lambert

Bees Extend Legs for Stability

Video clips reveal the strategy orchid bees use to maintain stability when flying in turbulent conditions.

Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece, reconstructed

Sixty paintings once adorned the altarpiece of a Franciscan church in the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro. View illustrations from the modern-day reconstruction.

Institutional factors have eased the way for Harvard students to go abroad.

Institutional factors have made it easier for Harvard students to go abroad.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The iconic <i>Silence=Death</i> neon sign, 1987, by the Silence=Death Project, appropriated (and inverted) the pink triangle used by Nazis to identify known homosexuals; the message, in poster form, preceded the formation of ACT UP. This is a copy of the original from the collection of the New Museum, New York.

From AIDS Activism to Art

View video from an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museum that explores the visual legacy of ACT UP’s campaign to galvanize action against a new epidemic.

Photograph by Giovanni Trambusti, courtesy of I Tatti

Reconstructed Sassetta altarpiece

Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.

by Christopher Reed

Professors and students create video and multimedia

Faculty members are adapting the traditional lecture format with visual and multimedia elements--a new form of teaching. View examples of twenty-first-century pedagogy now in use in Harvard classrooms.

David Wax plays <i>jaranas,</i> Mexican guitars of various sizes

David Wax’s band plays Mexican folk music.

David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.