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Harvard Graduate Workers Begin Strike

In the second walkout in six months, union leaders call for better pay and benefits and a stronger grievance process.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Undergraduate mines life lessons from Harvard alumni reports

The Undergraduate mines alumni class reports for real-world lessons about life.

by Katherine Xue

Harvard Medical School problems caring for research primates

Harvard Medical School's primate research center encounters repeated, serious lapses of proper procedure and safe animal care

by Carolyn Y. Johnson

Amanda Claybaugh, explicator of the nineteenth-century novel

Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.

Harvard faculty and alumni named 2012 Guggenheim fellows

Faculty members and alumni named 2012 fellows

Shared Interest Group events May-June 2012

Shared Interest Group happenings in May and June

Stephen Greenblatt, Tracy K. Smith win Pulitzers in general nonfiction, poetry

The professor wins for general nonfiction, the 1994 alumna for poetry; two former Nieman Fellows also honored.

Making art in Harvard classrooms

Art-making moves into the Harvard College curriculum

Harvard students produce original videos for Egyptology class

Harvard students produce original videos for Peter Der Manuelian's Egyptology class.

Harvard mulls new undergraduate degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering

Harvard develops two new courses of study.

Harvard President's Challenge social entrepreneurship finalists announcewd

The social entrepreneurship contest’s winner will be revealed next month.