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Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward

And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship

by Jonathan Shaw

Photograph of Ruth Kevess-Cohen

Alumni | January-February 2016

Encouraging Esperanto

Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.

by Olivia Campbell

Photograph of Dick Bolles, author of "What Color Is Your Parachute"

Alumni | January-February 2016

Parachute Specialist

Job counselor Dick Bolles ’50 keeps “chugging away.”

by Bailey Trela

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2016

Harvard Law Weighs In

Updates on The Harvard Campaign

by Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg

Features | January-February 2016

Rhetoric and Law

The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer

by Lincoln Caplan

Montage | January-February 2016

Lost in Ideas

Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work

by Lydialyle Gibson

Portrait of Richard Henry Dana Jr. in 1842

Montage | January-February 2016

Beyond Brahminism

How Richard  Henry Dana Jr. came to hate slavery and injustice

Montage | January-February 2016

Off the Shelf

Recent books cover the origins of mambo, American economic growth, cancer, landscape, and more

Portrait of Tania James

Montage | January-February 2016

The Elephant in the Cutting Room

A writer balances structure and spontaneity in her latest novel.

by Aria Thaker

Anthony Acciavatti beside the lake in Central Park, a body of water closer to home

Alumni | January-February 2016

Mapping the Ganges

A decade spent exploring India’s dynamic sacred river

by Nell Porter-Brown

The College Pump | January-February 2016

Sea Sex

Channeling Valentine’s Day—and sustainable oceans—via sexy sea creatures