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More Than One Paradigm Shift…

November 6, 2009 • Breaking News

Harvard Headlines: Elizabeth Warren, Economic-Development Failures, and More

November 4, 2009 • Harvard in the News

Harvard Headlines: ROTC, Ayn Rand, Orhan Pamuk, AIDS Art, and More

November 2, 2009 • Harvard in the News

Pictures in the Square

November 1, 2009 • Extras 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.

Orchid Bees In Flight

November 1, 2009 • Extras Video clips reveal the strategy orchid bees use to maintain stability when flying in turbulent conditions.

A Masterpiece Reconstructed

November 1, 2009 • Extras Sixty paintings once adorned the altarpiece of a Franciscan church in the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro. View illustrations from the modern-day reconstruction.

Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street

November 1, 2009 • Extras Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.

1 From AIDS to Art

November 1, 2009 • Extras 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.

The Son Also Rises

November 1, 2009 • Extras David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.

Teaching with Video

November 1, 2009 • Extras Faculty members are adapting the traditional lecture format with visual and multimedia elements—a new form of teaching. View examples of twenty-first-century pedagogy now in use in Harvard classrooms.

Harvard 42, Dartmouth 21

November 1, 2009 • Football

Students in Africa

November 1, 2009 • Extras Students and service at a new frontier: read 10 student profiles, view photos, and more.

Finding Sunshine in the Slum

November 1, 2009 • Extras Working with local residents, Elizabeth Nowak ’10 brings vertical agriculture to Nairobi’s Kibera slum.

A Better Bed-Net Strategy

November 1, 2009 • Extras David Sengeh ’10 combats malaria by distributing bed nets in and around Sahn Malen, Sierra Leone.

Destination Nollywood

November 1, 2009 • Extras In her home city of Ibadan, Nigeria, Oluwadara Johnson ’10 runs a performing-arts-themed camp for disadvantaged girls.