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Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese
Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.
Harvard 14, Yale 10
Two late-game touchdowns bring victory at Yale Bowl.
November 14, 2009: Penn 17, Harvard 7
Quakers quash Crimson hopes of a third straight Ivy championship.
Museum of Comparative Zoology at 150
On the enduring value of natural history museums and the study of life's species
Harvard library system faces restructuring
The intellectually extraordinary but decentralized system needs administrative, financial, and technological reorganization, according to the Task Force on University Libraries.
Harvard veterans and Medal of Honor winners honored
Harvard’s Medal of Honor winners and other alumni veterans, living and dead, were honored by President Drew Faust and U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Casey during a Memorial Church service.
Harvard reports on women, minorities, faculty diversity
The annual report on faculty development and diversity shows gains for women, but slow progress for black and Latino professors. Further progress, ironically, may come from senior-faculty retirements.
Articles on fundamentalism, juvenile justice, the homebuyer tax credit, and more
Our roundup also includes items on the percentage of new Harvard M.B.A.s entering finance, Harvard's role in conflict mediation in Iraq, "Netflix for dresses," and a stylish professor of engineering.
In the Laboratory at Harvard, art and science mix
Bioengineering professor David Edwards aims to provide a physical and conceptual space for maximizing creativity.
November 9, 2009: Harvard 34, Columbia 14
Harvard remains at the top of the Ivy heap. So does Penn.
Safra Foundation Center for Ethics to host Eliot Spitzer talk
Eliot Spitzer, J.D. ’84, is scheduled to speak next week as part of a lecture series on institutional corruption.
Articles about Elizabeth Warren, economic-development failures, and more
Our news roundup also includes items on the dying trees of Martha's Vineyard; financial incentives for innovation; and more on ROTC.