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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.
Harvard Medalists
Three people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service, and were publicly honored by President Drew Faust.
Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard.
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2008-2009 academic year.
The Senior Celebrants
Two 99-year-olds—Frances Pass Addelson ’30, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed ’32, L ’33, of Kennebunk, Maine—the oldest...
Feldstein: Why the Government Should Help Homeowners
On the opinion page of yesterday's Washington Post, Feldstein (Baker professor of economics, who soon ends his term as...
Catching Some Rays: Good for Your Heart?
CBS News has the story on a new study, led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Edward Giovannucci, that found that men with low Vitamin D levels had more than double the risk of heart attack...
Islam in the United States, from 1492 to 2008
A recent episode of the Here & Now interview show on WBUR, a Boston-based National Public Radio affiliate, features Jocelyne Cesari, director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program...
In China, Slowly Reassembling Lives
The latest story by Geoffrey Fowler ’00, formerly a Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at this magazine, chronicles a family's return to their hometown...
Update: Chemistry Professor Wins Prize for Imaging Techniques
Professor of chemistry and chemical biology X. Sunney Xie, whose work is detailed in the cover story of our current issue, has won the Berthold Leibinger Research Prize for laser technology...
The Harvard Hedge Fund?
A blog post by Matthew Yglesias ’03 has sparked quite a lively debate about whether Harvard deserves its tax-exempt status...