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Financial Crisis: Confidence—and Some Cautions
This post summarizes the October 13 panel discussion on "Leadership for the Twenty-First Century," moderated by journalist and television host Charlie Rose and a pair of addresses on globalization...
FAS Dean Outlines Priorities
Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), outlined his priorities for the academic year in his first forward-looking annual letter, published on October 9...
Martin Chalfie ’69, Ph.D. ’77, and Roger Y. Tsien ’72 Share Chemistry Nobel Prize
Fundamental work on the green fluorescent protein, isolated from jellyfish, is now a basic tool used to study biological processes...
$125-Million Gift for Bioengineering
Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65 has given the University $125 million—the largest donation in its history—to create a research institute for biologically inspired engineering...
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...
Fighting the Illegal Logging Trade
Alexander von Bismarck ’94 (’02)—one of the Bismarcks, great-great-grandnephew of Otto von Bismarck—has been working undercover, at no small risk, trying to counter the enormous worldwide trade in illegal logging and timber smuggling...
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 2
President Drew Faust hosted a discussion on "Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts" before a full house in Sanders Theatre and a webcast audience...
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 1
Harvard faculty members participated in two panel discussions this week focused on the roiling crisis in the nation's financial markets, the...
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives
For detailed accounts of the panel presentations on the financial crisis...
Gore to Speak at Sustainability Celebration
The event will celebrate Harvard's past achievements, present efforts, and future goals, including President Drew Faust's commitment to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 30 percent by 2016...
Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End?
Safra professor of economics Jeremy C. Stein and University of Chicago economist Anil Kashyap outline the options, as they see them, for the federal government's promised $700-billion bailout for financial firms...
Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss
Klein professor of law Randall Kennedy argues that Barack Obama's nomination as a major-party candidate is a milestone in itself...