November-December 2009

Back Issues
  • Children from New Hope orphanage in Busia, Uganda, make their nightly walk to get water for drinking and washing. They handle all the chores themselves—an important part of director Ken Mulago’s strategy for running the orphanage. “We want our children to behave as responsible adults,” he says. “We don’t want to raise them up just to think about themselves.”
    Immersed in Africa
    Students and service at a new frontier
  • Professor Video
    Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom
  • From AIDS to Art
    View video from an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museum that explores the visual legacy of ACT UP’s campaign to galvanize action against a new epidemic.
  • Ayn Rand
    Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist
  • The Ph.D. Problem
    On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal

Explore More

Harvard Square History Quiz

Think you know Harvard Square? Take our quiz—and submit your answers to be enrolled in a contest to win a copy of Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950 by Mo Lotman.
11.2.09

Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street

Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
11.1.09

Montage

A Fairy leaps.

Theater As If It Matters

Diane Paulus, the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, has an ambitious populist vision.
Novelist and Wall Streeter Norb Vonnegut, during a book tour in Sydney, Australia

Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street

Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.

Letters

Right Now

Richard Wrangham

Evolution by Fire

A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.

New England Regional

John Harvard's Journal

A Gallery Glows Again

The Great Mammal Hall in the Harvard Museum of Natural History is restored and reopened.
John Mugane

John Mugane

Meet the director of Harvard’s African language program.
Drew Faust, speaking in Sanders Theatre on September 24

The "New Normal"

President Faust opens the academic year with a State of the University address.
Cruising the Square: The Window Shop restaurant in the 1950s

Pictures in the Square

A new book of photographs tells Harvard Square’s history since the 1950s. Test your own Square knowledge for a chance to win a copy of the book.

Brevia

Short takes on recent news

Post Pre-Med

A senior assesses life at—and after—college without the pre-med track.

29-29, Forever

A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.

Alumni

James Katz (left) and Bob Nadelberg with an indoor bicycle at their offices

Vintage Vitality

Two Harvard-trained doctors launch a practice in the emerging field of age-management medicine.

Well Done

The winners of the 2009 Harvard Alumni Association Award

Job Notices

Harvard offices seek jobs and mentors for undergraduates

Treasure

The College Pump

This class necktie belonged to Renny Little's father, Bertram K. Little ’23. His class colors were orange and black.

Curious Colors

A class tradition refurbished, and “Harvard Yard” threads
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 |