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"You have to be flexible."
As a social epidemiologist, Joseph West, 32, has focused on children, especially those from poor and/or minority communities. "My root...
Profile of Harvard sports enthusiast William “Bill” Markus ’60
At Harvard sporting events, Bill Markus '60 is nearly as ubiquitous as crimson jerseys. For the past two seasons, he's been in the stands for...
Tupperware: The Movie
Filmmakers have so delighted in debunking the idyllic myth of 1950s America that exposing the era's seamier side has almost developed into its...
How to Care for Your Grandfather's Teddy Bear
Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth keeping safe, such as photographs of one's wedding; or those fading...
Genomic Joint Venture
Harvard, its hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research announced on June 19 that they will together create a...
Ibn al-Haytham
One of the most distinguished and prolific mathematicians in the medieval tradition of Arabic Islamic science, al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham...
"Medicine changes you."
Rather than lay out his every future career move, Vivek Murthy has looked for those things in his life that have generated "feelings of...
Stair Trek
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Philip M. Williams '57 dropped by Primus's third-floor office...
Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess MediPaul Levycal Center...
Bacteria Are the Cake
Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D. '77, Fisher professor of natural history, is a paleontologist who integrates geological and biological perspectives on...
Undergraduate Scribes
Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows—and "Undergraduate" columnists—for this academic year are...
One Nation, under Allah
Several years ago, an international wire service carried a story about a blind man in Saudi Arabia who visited his doctor for an annual...