September-October 2011

Letters
Right Now
Montage
Regional
John Harvard's Journal
Alumni
Pump
Treasure

The Constancy of Change

Snapshots of Harvard’s past quarter-century , with illustrations by Mark Steele
Birthday Greetings

Introduction to an anniversary
Professorial Permutations

Harvard’s evolving faculties
The Twenty-First-Century Student

Harvard students and their lives: 1986 versus today
Faster, Higher, Stronger

Athletic accomplishments, highlighted
Study Card

A sampling of current undergraduate courses
Schooled in Life

Alumni on undergraduate education, then and now
Beauty, Bounty, Brio, Buoyancy

Seamus Heaney introduces an anniversary album.
Building—and Buying—a Campus

The recent boom—and the future in Allston
The Progress of the Disciplines

Leading professors on the future of their fields
Harvard at 400

Visions of the University in 2036
The Perils of Prediction

Peering into the future—in print

Montage

Cornucopias in Paint

David Fichter paints outdoor murals that teem with life.

Vocals, Guitar, and Stethoscope

Singer-songwriter Suzie Brown, a cardiologist by training, has just released her first CD.

Financial Reform: The Doggerel

An ode to transparency

Using pencils, science illustrator Jenny Keller drew this basilisk lizard from a captive specimen. From <i>Field Notes on Science and Nature</i>

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections.

The Saratoga Avenue Community Center in Brooklyn

Oasis in Limestone and Brick

A much admired community center in Brooklyn, designed by George Ranalli.

The “Steel Factory”

Ezra Vogel’s monumental biography of Deng Xiaopeng, the doctrinaire pragmatist who modernized China.

Letters

Cambridge 02138

College crises, energy options, reefs at risk, home cooking, and more

Right Now

From Human Nature to Human Resources

By reading Darwin, a business school professor has found a unifying way to think about human motivation.

Wearing hijab, Muslim women from the United States and around the world meet in Manhattan in 2006 during the Women’s Islamic Initiative: Spirituality and Equity conference to discuss the issues and problems they face.

The Veil’s Revival

Veils have seen a resurgence among young Muslim women worldwide. Is this a step backward, or a marker of progressive politics?

High-Tech Art Sleuthing

Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.

New England Regional

The Square has always attracted those who want to shop, eat, gawk, and play.

25 Years in Harvard Square

An iconic space reflects history’s recent trends.

Still Serving

Harvard Square restaurants that have stood the test of time.

Detail of “Painting Faces of Beijing Opera,” by Christine Shen ’12, on display in lamont library

Extracurriculars

Events at Harvard

John Harvard's Journal

Using scale models of the galleries in the Harvard Art Museums’ new building, curators are already choosing the objects for permanent installation.

New Settings for Fine Art

As a redesigned museum rises, curators choose works for display and plan to increase faculty involvement in the process.

The View from Mass. Hall

A president in her fifth year surveys the University on the eve of its 375th.

Party Like It’s the CCCLXXVth—and Many Lustra More

What’s in a (Latin) name?

From a vantage point south of Western Avenue in Allston, looking northeast toward Harvard Square, the unfinished science complex dominates the foreground. Beyond it lie athletic fields that may yield to expansion by the School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Education, or other academic enterprises. A business “enterprise research campus” is envisioned south of Western Avenue, across from the high-rise graduate-student housing at One Western Avenue.

Rethinking Allston

The University has issued a new set of recommendations for its landholdings there.

Sally Donahue

Meet the ardent rower—and College financial-aid officer.

From left to right: Lawrence S. Bacow, Susan L. Graham, and Joseph J. O'Donnell

And Then There Were 10

The Harvard Corporation’s three new members

Yesterday's News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Brevia

Marc Hauser resigns, Kennedy School celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary, new organ for Memorial Church, Fay House renovations, and other Harvard news