Elizabeth Gudrais

Celebrated chef Ferran Adrià mingles cooking and science at elBulli, his restaurant near Barcelona.

| 3.1.2009

The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?

Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.

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.

| 3.1.2009

A Scourge Remembered

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

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

K-12 | 3.1.2009

The Developing Child

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

This image shows small brown-fat cells—which burn energy as heat—interspersed among larger white-fat cells, which store energy. The former are stained brown here; their natural color, which results from the density of mitochondria, would not be visible in this thin cross-section of tissue. (The blue staining marks cell nuclei.)

| 1.1.2009

The Fit Fat

Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Spiegelman studies brown fat, a little-known type of tissue with health-promoting potential.

| 1.1.2009

Anthony Woods: Taking a Stand

Anthony C. Woods has initiated his own dismissal from the U.S. Army under the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Ana Lamilla surveys the Renca development from the still-under-construction park on a ridge above. Behind her, part of the squatter settlement where she once lived remains.

| 11.7.2008

For Santiago's poor, housing with dignity

An innovative housing initiative with deep Harvard ties lets families who once lived illegally become homeowners.

Faculty | 11.1.2008

Decoding Diabetes

Elizabeth Gudrais reports on how discoveries in genetics, cell metabolism, and the study of small molecules point the way to new therapies and perhaps a cure for diabetes.

| 9.1.2008

Proof Positive

Richard L. Taylor’s work connects two discrete domains of mathematics: curved spaces, from geometry, and modular arithmetic, which has to do with counting...