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In Watertown, a New Frontier?
The geographic center of the University's ambitions for campus growth over the next several decades lies to the south of Harvard Square, in the...
Banjos and Balance Sheets
Banjoist Alison Brown '84, a standout in folk, jazz, and bluegrass genres, is a rarity: a Grammy-winning artist who is also a successful...
The Summers Scoop
As an extra announcing the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University's next president rolled off the presses of the Harvard...
Museums in Motion
Spirits quickened inside certain Harvard museums this winter when the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles, began...
Honoris Causa
Increase Mather was already presiding over Harvard College when he received one of its first honorary degrees. (More recent presidents have...
Brevia
Robert E. Rubin U.S. Treasury Coming Attraction The Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be...
The Deadliest War
Drew Faust speaks on how the Civil War’s astounding death toll reshaped American society.
Genomic Science and Society
Francis Collins, the home-schooled director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, visited Harvard Medical School on February 20, one...
Scholars Abroad
Winnowed from a pool of 112 applicants, four seniors were awarded Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University for one year...
Fonda Gift Creates Gender Studies Center
In Jane Fonda's latest role, she stars as philanthropist summa cum laude. With a $12.5-million gift to the Graduate School of Education (GSE)...
Sprinter, Taylor, Hurdler (High)
One of the country's best track athletes, Brenda Taylor gracefully clears an indoor hurdle. Photograph by Jim Harrison The summer...
The Flatland of Photography
Photographs and comment by Rosamond Wolff Purcell The densely striped Javan tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica, was common on that island...