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Harvard veterans and Medal of Honor winners honored
Harvard’s Medal of Honor winners and other alumni veterans, living and dead, were honored by President Drew Faust and U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Casey during a Memorial Church service.
Harvard reports on women, minorities, faculty diversity
The annual report on faculty development and diversity shows gains for women, but slow progress for black and Latino professors. Further progress, ironically, may come from senior-faculty retirements.
Articles on fundamentalism, juvenile justice, the homebuyer tax credit, and more
Our roundup also includes items on the percentage of new Harvard M.B.A.s entering finance, Harvard's role in conflict mediation in Iraq, "Netflix for dresses," and a stylish professor of engineering.
In the Laboratory at Harvard, art and science mix
Bioengineering professor David Edwards aims to provide a physical and conceptual space for maximizing creativity.
November 9, 2009: Harvard 34, Columbia 14
Harvard remains at the top of the Ivy heap. So does Penn.
Safra Foundation Center for Ethics to host Eliot Spitzer talk
Eliot Spitzer, J.D. ’84, is scheduled to speak next week as part of a lecture series on institutional corruption.
Articles about Elizabeth Warren, economic-development failures, and more
Our news roundup also includes items on the dying trees of Martha's Vineyard; financial incentives for innovation; and more on ROTC.
Articles about ROTC, Ayn Rand, Orhan Pamuk, AIDS art, and more
Our news roundup also includes a Faust interview, a Mankiw column, and a novel satirizing the world of bestselling novels.
Harvard Square History Quiz
Think you know Harvard Square? Take our quiz—and submit your answers to be enrolled in a contest to win a copy of Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950 by Mo Lotman.
Professionalization in the academy
On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal
by Louis Menand
Former financier Norb Vonnegut’s investment-world thriller
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
Bees Extend Legs for Stability
Video clips reveal the strategy orchid bees use to maintain stability when flying in turbulent conditions.