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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...
A Dispatch from Chengdu
"Sunny" Seong-hyon Lee, M.T.S. ’02, forwarded this personal account of survivors coping with the aftermath of the traumatic earthquake in China, and asked the editors to share it with our readers.
Cardenio at the American Repertory Theatre
Donors gathered at the Charles Hotel for a talk and discussion.
Shakespeare, Lost and Found
How could it be that a Shakespeare play currently being performed at the American Repertory Theatre was actually written not by The Bard, but by two men of Harvard?
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...
Update: Harvard Law School Faculty Approves Open Access
In a unanimous vote, members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty have approved making their scholarly articles available on line free of charge...
Corporation Member in the Hot Seat
In a two-hour interview, Rubin answers questions about his role in the housing and credit crisis. The losses, which have rippled throughout the economy...
Lights! Microscopes! Action!
View clips from the laboratories of several Harvard researchers that demonstrate advances in optical microscopy from "Shedding Light on Life" in the May-June 2008 issue...
Explore the history of an ancient city
Hear Jason Ur discuss Tell Brak as it was then and is today...
Art of the Future?
The Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums at 32 Quincy Street will close their doors on June 30 for five years (see “Art Museum...
Shedding Light on Life
The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane.
On the Career Carousel
College students prepare for life after graduation...
by Paul Gleason