September-October 2012

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Alumni
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Regional

Architecture in Concert

William Rawn’s designs begin not with the eye, but the ear.
Can America Compete?

A discussion with Harvard Business School faculty members
Reinventing the Classroom

Anatomy of a new course—and a new approach to teaching it
Vita: Warren Brookes

Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991

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William Rawn: Patterns of Place

Architect William Rawn discusses “patterns of place” and their application to his design for the Cambridge Public Library.

8.22.12

Montage

Laurie Krasny Brown in her studio on Martha’s Vineyard

The Art of Paper

Laurie Krasny Brown crafts colorful works from an “accessible, flexible, beautiful” material.

Over and Done

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life’s liberating exits

Fiction in Counterpoint

A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score

The Murphy High School Marching Band before a game in Mobile, Alabama, captured in <i>Why We Are Here</i>

Off the Shelf

Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections

Three for the Mode

For his new CD, Wisteria, jazz pianist Steve Kuhn proves good things come in trios.

America the Politically Unequal

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.

Chapter and Verse

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Letters

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Letters on compromise, constitutional revision, voting fraud, American democracy, and students and cigarettes

Letters (expanded)

Additional September-October issue letters to the editor

Right Now

Two Steps to Free Will

Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.

Curbing Clots

Rutin, a substance found in apples, could help prevent heart attacks and stroke.

Wyss Institute scientists have developed a drug-delivering nanorobot that looks like an open-ended barrel (above). The exterior surface of the device is programmed to recognize a target on a cell surface; the drug payload (purple) is secured with anchor strands (yellow) to the interior. Double-stranded DNA latches (blue, red, and orange) ensure that the robot unlocks only in the presence of a molecular key expressed by the target cells. That opens the device (below right), enabling the payload to attack only the designated cells. [<a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/img/article/0812/RN-DNA-closedB.png">View larger image.</a>]

Cancer-fighting Robots

Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute is developing drug-delivering machines that target designated cells.

New England Regional

A still from Michelangelo Antonioni’s <i>La Notte,</i> to be screened at the Harvard Film Archive

Extracurriculars

Early fall events at and around Harvard

Museums in our Midst

Six small New England museums worth the trek

West Bridge has an industrial-cum-farmhouse appeal.

Bitter, Sweet, Salty—Yum

West Bridge’s French-New England fare is fun.

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This view of the Fogg Art Museum, taken in mid summer, shows the new structure being inserted in the original Quincy Street façade.

Work Zone

Summer construction—on the Fogg Art Museum, the Business School’s Tata Hall, Old Quincy, and more—renews the campus.

The once and future site of a science building in Allston

Allston’s New Agenda

Harvard will build housing and resume construction of a science building, submitting a new Institutional Master Plan by October.

The China Trade

An exhibition from Harvard Business School’s historical library collections documents the first wave of U.S. trade with imperial China.

Harvard Portrait: David Jones

David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.

The solar array installed atop the Gordon Indoor Track offers 591.5 kilowatts of clean-energy capacity.

Brevia

Harvard’s largest solar installation, edX develops, Drew Faust’s research becomes a TV program, the Gilgamesh sculpture, and more

Designating Dunster

Dunster House will get the first makeover as part of a project to renovate Harvard’s Houses. Students will take up temporary residence at the Inn at Harvard.