Extras

2 A Look at “The Language of Color”

November 1, 2008 • Extras Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History via video for a tour of its new exhibition, The Language of Color.

1 The Maximalist

November 1, 2008 • Extras After a childhood spent playing the classics, cellist Matt Haimovitz has devoted himself to new music.

5 Poems by Richard Wilbur

November 1, 2008 • Extras

2 Decoding Diabetes

November 1, 2008 • Extras 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.

Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives

September 25, 2008 • Extras

A Window on Beijing

September 1, 2008 • Extras The Olympics focused global attention generally on air pollution in China, and particularly on air quality in Beijing.

Camp Cooking, and Children

September 1, 2008 • Extras Reading from his own works, longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier ’73 recounts the perils of preparing “breakfast in a paper bag”…

Ecophilic Initiatives

September 1, 2008 • Extras Examples of how the University and its constituent parts have been going green during the past several years…

How They Built Houses in Japan

September 1, 2008 • Extras Watch a film clip showing the reconstruction of the Boston Children’s Museum’s Japanese house…

2 Back, but Not to the U.S.S.R.

September 1, 2008 • Extras On the sweltering afternoon of July 8, more than 100 onlookers crowded Winthrop Street to watch the Lowell House bells descend…