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Race in a Genetic World
“I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical...
Visionary Donors
Robert Bliss died in 1962, Mildred Bliss in 1969, but the benefactors of Dumbarton Oaks still cast a long shadow over their former home...
The Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year include a Harvard College Class Day speech by chairman of the Federal...
Comings and Goings
University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (please see the partial list below)...
Freeing Speech
Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...
Fishing for Answers
Photograph by Ralf-Finn Hestoft Neil Shubin and Tiktaalik In 2005, parents and school officials in Dover, Pennsylvania, were locked in a...
Could Rock-Weathering Help Solve Climate Change?
Accelerating natural processes presents a potential new CO2 mitigation strategy.
Scanning the Social Sciences
Letters have gone out inviting senior faculty members from across the University, nominated by the deans of their respective schools, to...
Art of the Future?
The Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums at 32 Quincy Street will close their doors on June 30 for five years (see “Art Museum...
Shedding Light on Life
The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane.
On the Career Carousel
College students prepare for life after graduation...
by Paul Gleason