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Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were projected onto Harvard buildings in December. The “60.30.1” light installation--created by artist Julie Mallozzi, then acting co-director of Harvard’s Film Study Center, with animation created by Norah Solorzano, a teaching assistant in the department of visual and environmental studies--was commissioned by the Film Study Center, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Human Rights: Inalienable, Unfulfilled

Harvard marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Photograph by Stu Rosner

In the Hole

Harvard assesses the feasibility of completing capital projects now under way, and the timing of other parts of its institutional master plan.

Year-round fresh air and sunlight were seen as curative in the early 1900s. Children at tuberculosis sanatoriums, including Wallum Lake (shown here), were sent outside barely clothed, even in winter.

A Scourge Remembered

A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Rich colors and paintings by Latin American artists add to Merengue’s vibrancy.

Latin Flair

Merengue brings authentic Caribbean/Latin American-style food to Boston.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Energizing the Local Economy

An update on the University’s financial contribution

Our Psychotropic Lives

History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Jeremy Lin

Jeremy Lin excels in nearly every phase of basketball.

Star shooting guard Jeremy Lin excels in nearly every phase of basketball.

by Craig Lambert

This map shows soil types for all of Africa. A researcher might use it with other map layers to study agricultural productivity among countries with similar soils, comparing, for example, the agrarian practices of Francophone and Anglophone countries.

Mapping Africa

Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.

A classroom in Peñalolén (a neighborhood of Santiago, Chile) where "Un Buen Comienzo" is being implemented

The Developing Child

With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Illustration by Schell Lewis; Wurts Bros. Photo, N.Y.C./ Library of Congress

On Judicial Interpretation

Paul M. Barrett reviews The Invisible Constitution, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.

by Paul M. Barrett

<em>Mango Season, Crawford Market, Mumbai</em>, Maharastra, 1993, on display at the Sackler Museum

Extracurriculars

Early spring happenings on and around campus

2009 HAA Elections

This spring, alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board.