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Bioengineering Report Released
Among the report's major recommendations are the hiring of a minimum of 20 new faculty members in the joint field and the creation of undergraduate and graduate curricula...
Obama's Facebook Playbook
If the Barack Obama campaign's web presence reminds you of Facebook, there's a reason...
Benefactor Katherine Loker Dies at 92
Katherine B. Loker, whose gifts to Harvard underwrote the renovation of the Widener Library main reading room and the transformation of the Memorial Hall basement, died June 26 at her home in Oceanside, California...
Songs from "Something Else" by Eisa Davis
Eisa Davis ’92—actress, playwright, musician, dancer—is also known as the creator of "soulful, jazz-inflected songs." Listen to tracks from her debut album, "Something Else"...
Maxim Gorky
Brief life of a great enigma, the Russian author and political propagandist born Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov: 1868-1936...
Anthologizing Yourself
Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others') poetry alive...
by Paul Gleason
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections...
Joanna Aizenberg
A bioengineer learns from sponges...
J.K. Rowling, Ben Bernanke and President Faust in 2008
At a time of war and recession, Commencement takes stock of nation, University, and graduates' lives...
Large Successes
Tapas of distinction at Small Plates restaurant and wine bar...
Vintage Brevities
The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...
What Stress Reveals
Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...