Research

Faculty Book: James Alexander Dun *04: Another Revolution

A young America looked toward the possibilities of upheaval in Haiti

In Short: Research

Engineering: Sensing Weakness

Branko Glišić and colleagues are working to close gaps in bridge safety

Faculty Book: Elaine Showalter

Julia Ward Howe’s Feminist Battle Hymn

Q&A: Yu Xie: Knowing China

A new center increases understanding of a rapidly changing nation

In Short

Faculty Book: Sean Wilentz: Join the Party

An embrace of tradition as political outsiders are in vogue

Geosciences: Cause for Hope From the North Pole

In Short: Research

Biology: Love Bites

Learning how some mosquitoes came to prefer us above all

Punctuation Patterns — and Cool Art, Too

Elements of Style

Q&A: Wendy Belcher, on an Influential Woman

Biography of Ethiopian saint sheds light on distant era

Q&A: Christina Lazaridi ’92

Words on Film: Thinking like a poet helps a screenwriter find the emotional core of a script

Psychology: Money and Happiness

How the poor improve their lives — and mindset — when they receive financial help

Update: Into the Cosmos

Teaming with NASA to explore the nature of our place in the universe

Astrophysics: View of the Heavens

A new telescope aims to map the universe in stunning and unprecedented detail

The Sun, The Moon, The Stars

Q&A: Ali Valenzuela

A Force to Contend With: Hispanic voters have become a crucial factor in American elections

Q&A: Jhumpa Lahiri on Loving Italian

Writing in Italian offers a meditation on Lahiri’s passion for the language

Creative Writing: Big Sky Country

Montana holds the key to a family’s idiosyncrasies in Boris Fishman ’01’s novel Americans

A Debut Novel Tackles Translation

In Short

Q&A: Jessica Metcalf on Herd Immunity

The importance of vaccination, and how its effects can be undermined

International Affairs: The Banality of Evil

Terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, says Jacob Shapiro, are ‘surprisingly mundane’