Harvard Magazine

Forum: The Economic Agenda

Six serious challenges facing the next president of the United States
by Lawrence H. Summers

Forum: Greening China

Social-science and public-health tools point toward market-based solutions for the fast-growing nation’s severe air-pollution problems
by Mun S. Ho and Dale W. Jorgenson

Seriously Funny

Writer Ian Frazier combines the disciplines of historian and humorist
by Craig Lambert

Vita: Albert Bickmore

Brief life of a museum impresario: 1839-1914
by Victoria Cain

Works and Woods

Architecture and ecology in Japan

by Paul Gleason

when you enter the Japanese house in the Boston Children’s Museum, says Yukio Lippit ’92, “you feel a little bit Alice in Wonderland-ish.” More >>

The expanding Harvard universe

Teens’ developing brains • hidden math connections • mongoose-guided de-mining • rushed judgment on drug safety

Art, books, diverse creations

Building with bales • Irish literary pages • untangling Enron • a facile forger • Off the Shelf • Chapter & Verse • writing for young adults

University news

Lowering the Lowell House bells • Medical School strategy • community doctoring • behavioral economist • freshman wake-up call • the University’s first executive vice president • an action plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions • balancing faculty expertise and students’ fields of study • early Audubon drawings • engineering as a liberal art • Crimson outpost in China • Allston’s free-form science structure • the “Undergraduate” resumes rookie status • soccer stalwart’s rugged style • and a preview of fall sports

At left: Photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office

Coming Soon!
	Update: Alex Ross Wins MacArthur >> A Window on Beijing >> Camp Cooking, and Children >> Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End? >> Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss >> October 9 FAS Dean Outlines Priorities >> October 8 Martin Chalfie ’69, Ph.D. ’77, and Roger Y. Tsien ’72 Share Chemistry Nobel Prize >>	Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End? >> Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss >> I Cook, Therefore I Am? >> Facebook Profile Before First Steps? >> The Mailer-Buckley Connection >> Tall Tales >> Politicking as Crimson-Hued Blood Sport >> Campaigning by Text Message >> Crimson In Triumph >>