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An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures
Hafner writes that Lacy's "explanation of how venture capital works is instructive and clear, perhaps one of the best yet written for a general readership."
Silverglate on Obama, HLS, and that New Yorker Cover
A campaign spokesman called the cartoon "tasteless and offensive"; Silverglate, LL.B. ’67, attributes that reaction to an overblown political correctness that he traces to Obama's time at Harvard Law School (HLS)...
Harvard scientists create first disease-specific human stem cell lines
Kevin Eggan, an assistant professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology, announced in Science that he had used the technique to create...
XDR-TB Can Be Treated
More than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR -TB patients in the study, which was conducted in home and community-based settings in Peru...
A Controversial Critique of Teaching and Learning at Harvard
A recent essay by John H. Summers, now a visiting scholar at Boston College's Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, has prompted sharp comment among academic readers...
Glaeser: Tax Credits for Home Heating Won't Help
Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser doesn't like the Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act, which would give each American household a tax credit for a third of the household's energy costs...
Tobacco Bill's "Pitfalls and Possibilities"
Passage of the tobacco-regulation bill currently before Congress would represent a major step forward, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Allan M. Brandt wrote in last week's New England Journal of Medicine...
Congress's First Blind Rabbi?
Last week's New Yorker had a Talk of the Town piece on the man who hopes to be the first blind rabbi—and in fact, the first rabbi—to serve in the U.S. Congress...
Harvard Alumni Olympic Rowers... and Facebook Litigants
Two members of the 2008 U.S. men's Olympic rowing team hold Harvard degrees: Cameron Winklevoss ’04 and Tyler Winklevoss ’04...
Passages: Julius Richmond, Founding Director of Head Start
Julius B. Richmond, MacArthur professor of health policy emeritus and a revered figure among scholars and politicians, died Sunday...
Times Columnist Likes Katz, Goldin Take on Education and Economy
American young adults today have more education than their parents—but the growth rate of educational attainment from one generation to the next has slowed significantly...
Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health
President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...