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For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Theobald Smith

A brief profile of the pioneering comparative pathologist

by Steven M. Niemi

"Thank You, Alumni"

Reunioners and seniors of 2009 give the University a welcome assist.

Sexual apartheid in medieval England

Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.

by Jonathan Shaw

The SIGnboard

Updates from Shared Interest Groups

The Tall Book, by Arianne Cohen, describes the lives of tall people.

Arianne Cohen ’03 celebrates “life from on high” in a new book that discusses tall people's perspectives and prospects.

Cutting-Edge Cancer Research Looks Beyond the Traditional Grant Funding System

Medical School professor George Demetri again leads cutting-edge cancer research, in an environment of timid funding for experimentation.

A Kindle Connection

Amazon's electronic book-reader, the Kindle, has more than one Harvard Business School connection.

In This Mass Extinction, the Enemy Is Us

The New Yorker magazine quotes Fisher professor of natural history Andrew Knoll on the current mass extinction. The enemy is us.

Cast Your Vote

Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association director slates

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