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Mindfulness—the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer

Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.

by Cara Feinberg

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

The music of Derrick Ashong and Soulfège fuses reggae, hip-hop, and funk

The band Soulfège has international sound and a positive message. With a music video.

by Craig Lambert

Roundup of recent Harvard news

Canaday's solar roof, a rare giant flower, oil-spill commissioner, and more

Restaurant review of Coppa, in Boston's South End

The South End’s Coppa offers tasty tapas.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Faculty retirements, a HUCTW contract, and hospital aid to Harvard Med School

Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals

Harvard's EVP revises budget, capital-planning projects

Executive vice president Katie Lapp is swiftly altering the ways Harvard budgets, builds, computes, and more.

David Scadden studies cellular environments, seeking the origins of cancer

David Scadden studies the environmental cues that can cause normal cells to become diseased.

by Jonathan Shaw

Video: Soulfège reinterprets the West African classic "Sweet Mother"

Shot in Ghana, a reinterpretation of the West African classic by a band including Derrick Ashong ’97 and Jonathan Gramling ’98

Footnotes for "In the Wake of War"

The original footnotes from Charles Fried and Gregory Fried’s book, as excerpted in the September-October 2010 issue of Harvard Magazine.

George Oommen paints India-based abstract pictures

Painter George Oommen creates distinctive images of Kerala, India—his homeland. With video of the artist at work.

by Craig Lambert

Quotation Q&A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words