May-June 2010

Back Issues
  • Gutenberg 2.0
    Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
  • The Pay Problem
    Time for a new paradigm for executive compensation
  • A wedding photograph of Masauko and Catherine (Ajizinga) Chipembere. Years later, Catherine Chipembere served as deputy minister of health and population in the Malawian government.
    Masauko Chipembere
    Brief life of a pioneering African nationalist: 1930-1975
  • Networked
    Exploring the weblike structures that underlie everything from friendship to cellular behavior

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"Networked" Web Extra: Sidebars and Video

Slime mold demonstrates the power of networks, fanning out to solve a maze and construct a railway map. Video and Web-exclusive sidebars to accompany the feature article “Networked.”
4.19.10

Skyscraper as Symbol

In Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, Scott Johnson explores the semiotics of these urban giants.
5.1.10

Game, Match, and High Set

The Harvard men’s tennis team is profiting from a new approach to movement on the court.
5.1.10

Montage

Laura Mehlinger with a Colorfield romper, in silk with mesh streamers (left), and a silk-and-mesh veil chemise

Highbrow Lingerie

Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.

The Green-Pea Memo

Poking fun “at the academic-bureaucratic mentality of university life”
Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at 2,717 feet, is the world’s tallest tower.

Skyscraper as Symbol

In Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, Scott Johnson explores the semiotics of these urban giants.

A Cautionary Tale

David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson’s The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
<i>Beckoning</i> (2008), one of Dinerstein’s recent concrete sculptures

New Ancient Sculpture

Sculptor James Dinerstein’s works in concrete and bronze fuse ancient forms with modern abstraction.

Letters

Right Now

Commencement and Reunion Guide

John Harvard's Journal

A bilingual welcome to a binational academic center.

Global Reach

A new center in Shanghai reflects Harvard’s growing engagement with the People’s Republic.
Vincent Brown

Vincent Brown

The professor of African and African American studies uses multiple media to study slavery.

Brevia

Short takes on recent Harvard news

Alumni

For Overseer: (Top, L-R) Cheryl Dorsey; David Tang; Walter Isaacson; Diana Nelson. (Bottom, L-R): David Heyman; Karen Nelson Moore; Joseph Fuller; Nicholas Kristof

Cast Your Vote

Candidates for Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association director

Author's Query

David Allyn, Ph.D. ’96, is looking for est graduates to interview for an academic article.

Treasure

The College Pump

Found on eBay, this barrel now belongs to Robert G. Milstein ’46, of Saratoga Springs, New York. He has no idea of its original purpose. It is 15 inches high. Harvard archivists Robin McElheny and Barbara Meloni think it looks like “a reunion prop,” maybe from the Depression era. Readers, any ideas?

Cast Your Bread

Of philanthropy rewarded, broken glass, and pennies for Harvard
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