Elizabeth Gudrais

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.

Montage | March-April 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

Features | March-April 2009

The Developing Child

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

Right Now | March-April 2009

Our Psychotropic Lives

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

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.)

Right Now | January-February 2009

The Fit Fat

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

Alumni | January-February 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.

Features | November-December 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.

Right Now | September-October 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...