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Harvard Portrait - John Briscoe
John Briscoe will reestablish an engineering program at Harvard focused on water.
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
News and Notices
Comings and Goings; Return to Harvard Day; and a special notice regarding Harvard's Commencement Exercises
From Literature to the Lab
In this excerpt from his new book, The Art and Politics of Science, Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.
Laughing at Slavery
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
Tax Tutors
Robert Burke’s nonprofit Ladder Up offers tax help and financial advice to the working poor.
Human Rights: Inalienable, Unfulfilled
Harvard marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the Hole
Harvard assesses the feasibility of completing capital projects now under way, and the timing of other parts of its institutional master plan.
A Scourge Remembered
A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.
Latin Flair
Merengue brings authentic Caribbean/Latin American-style food to Boston.
Energizing the Local Economy
An update on the University’s financial contribution
Our Psychotropic Lives
History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.