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The Alumni College programs, run by the Harvard Alumni Association, range from day-long symposia to two-hour workshops and cover an array of topics. Alumni events offered this fall include
Neat Lawns, Nice Neighborhoods
This may make me a less than completely loyal Harvard alumnus, but I can’t help thinking of Geyser University Professor William Julius...
New Undergraduate Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2006-2007 academic year will be senior Casey N. Cep and sophomore...
Cambridge 02138
As a clinical and research psychologist who has been doing research on these subjects for more than 20 years, I wish to add a few important points
A Woman in Science
In my first year of doctoral studies in England, a group of colleagues and I gathered at the pub after work one evening, along with some senior...
Doctoring 101
What does it mean to be a physician? How do I work as part of a team? Which career options lie ahead? What’s it like to watch a patient...
Team Teaching
Teaching matters at Harvard Business School (HBS)—faculty members spend as much time preparing for each class as they do conducting the...
Shots in the Dark
The Z closet in Houghton Library is called that because Z is not used in the accession codes for the ordinary run of items in the collection:...
Suburban Angst, Chinese-Style
Imagine American Beauty with a Chinese-American cast, or Eat Drink Man Woman transplanted from Taipei to an affluent New York suburb: such...
The fight to preserve biodiversity in the American West
Gilbert Gale uses all tools at his disposal to fight invasive plants in Western grasslands.
Passionate Concierge
Sophisticated counsel on what to read, view, and hear — just a keystroke away
Brevia
College Change Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross announced in mid July that Patricia O’Brien, deputy dean for the past two years and...