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Communicating about Cures—and Cancer The Harvard community is richly peopled with leading biomedical researchers. A few of them are doubly...
Writer, Reformer, Physician-in-Training
As an undergraduate volunteering at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, Sachin Jain ’02 couldn’t help but notice that many of its...
“House-Poor”
An unusual “Dean’s Letter on the Finances of the Faculty,” presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on October 17...
Brevia
Design Departure Alan A. Altshuler Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design...
The Relevant Biomedical Research
The story of smart drugs and their role in the present cancer-treatment revolution has its roots in the nineteenth century, when a...
Cultural Chaos
Forty years ago, millions of China’s urban youth rose up in response to the Great Helmsman’s call to “bombard the...
Mapping Music
Humans seem to have an instinct for music. Certain songs have a quality that makes us want to tap our toes and sing along. We can’t quite...
Eternal Creatures
Top: A nudibranch. Bottom: A “by-the-wind sailor” sea jelly. Photographs courtesy of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology...
A general-education proposal to replace Harvard’s Core curriculum is debated
After three years of inconclusive work on a new general-education component for the College, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to...
Forecourt Phenoms
In the world of college squash, Harvard was once a perennial national champion. The Crimson have bagged 30 such titles, far more than any other...
Allston Plan Imminent
Harvard is expected to file with the City of Boston, early in January, an institutional master plan that maps out development of the Allston...
Exemplary Contributors
With great pleasure, the editors recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine during 2006, awarding each $1,000 for their distinguished...