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The commencement festivities conclude with addresses by President Neil L. Rudenstine, Amartya K. Sen and Seamus Heaney. Top MONDAY, JUNE 5...
Alyssa Goodman
When she was an eight-year-old living on Long Island, Alyssa Goodman, Ph.D. '89, wrote to two oceanic research centers, Scripps and Woods Hole. "I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau," ...
Chapter & Verse
Lester Welch hopes to find a source for "You Care--I Dare," a didactic passage that ends, "If you love me, don't sing me your song. Teach me to...
Read All About It
Beyond its reunion symposiums, the class of 1950 has elicited reviews of the state of knowledge ...
Rigorous studies show that the placebo effect accounts for most of the benefits
Harvard researchers discuss the side effects of Prozac and other SSRIs
University People
The care and nurturing of the 3,100 students and 2,200 scholars who come from abroad to study, teach, or hold fellowships at Harvard annually...
Refreshing the Fellows
The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full...
Stealing the Catalog along with the Coins
"Incredible as it seems to the uninitiated, there was no overall inventory of the University coins," wrote Professor George M.A. Hanfmann in...
Postscript
In its September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published "The Millenial Class," a selection of admissions essays submitted by six...
e-bio
Parallel Lives, the now classic multibiography by Phyllis (Davidoff) Rose '64, Ph.D. '70, broke new ground in 1983 by examining the lives of...
High Fashion, Sub-Saharan
The ironies abound: women who can scarcely put food on the table cut elegant figures on city streets. Families who live in rundown concrete...
Winter Wonders
In March, Dora Gyorffy '01 became NCAA national indoor high jump champion ...