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Each “SmartSpace” unit will have a full-sized sofa and refrigerator, a combination washer-dryer hidden in a cabinet, a convection oven, and a hidden microwave.

Micro apartments are popping up in San Francisco and Boston

Tiny apartments are on the rise in cities like San Francisco and Boston.

More Harvard e-mail investigations disclosed

Fallout from cheating investigation widens as additional reviews of a resident dean’s accounts are reported to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Randall Kennedy at the table where he does his research in the reading room of Harvard Law School’s Langdell Library

Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race

Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.

by Craig Lambert

Class notes and obituaries May-June 2013

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Compact apartments are proliferating in the United States. Here, artist’s renderings show how the MMNY micro-units, prefabricated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and shipped to the East 27th Street building site, will be stacked atop each other like Lego bricks.

“My Micro NY” units were created by three Harvard GSD alumni

With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.

by Laura Levis

Instrument designer Andrew Szentgyorgyi illustrates the prism technology for the GMT’s high-resolution spectrograph.

Harvard Astronomers Searching for Earth-like Exoplanets

The Giant Magellan Telescope could help spot life outside our solar system.

Harvard fundraising needs and competition

The University approaches a public fundraising drive

The beginning of Thomas’s entry in the Class of 1838’s Class Book (Harvard University Archives, HUD 238.714)

Memoir of "Lighthouse Thomas," A.B. 1838: from a hole in the ground to Harvard

From a hole in the ground to Harvard

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

Weiler on his way up to clear the bar (green, at left). Note the bend in his pole, far below. The orange foam pads cushion landings.

Harvard's Nico Weiler is a pole vault champion

Nico Weiler clears inhuman heights, and not by human instinct.

by Craig Lambert