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Jenny Lee Talks Chinese Food on "The Colbert Report"

Among Colbert's questions: "Is Chinese food safer to eat than Chinese toys?"

Hammonds Named Dean of the College

Full text of the announcement as well as Harvard Magazine's previous coverage of Hammonds...

Set Design for Grease

Theatrical set designer Derek McLane ’80 shows how his work progresses — from initial sketches on a yellow legal pad through the musical’s finished sets...

Finding Physics in Everyday Objects

Watch Harvard applied mathematics professor L. Mahadevan create wrinkles, folds, and a flutter 

Joanne Chang’s Sticky Buns

Get Chang’s sticky bun recipe and see how they’re made.

Crimson Queens of the Rink

The women’s hockey team ended January with a perfect 14-0 record in the ECAC, and a 17-1-0 record overall, earning them the top ranking in...

by Craig Lambert

Inevitable Mistakes, Avoidable Harm

The culture of medicine has long tried to keep doctors from making mistakes by indoctrinating them to believe that they shouldn’t make...

Out and About

As winter is nudged out by the first warm days of spring and the refreshing sight of a few green shoots, we all welcome the chance to explore...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Boosting College Financial Aid

Harvard’s new undergraduate financial-aid policies, affecting even students from high-income families, were announced on December...

Sweet Science

At the Leverett House Grill in the late 1980s, Joanne Chang ’91 first turned pro as a baker, selling four freshly baked chocolate chip...

by Craig Lambert

History Bronzed

Harvard people with medals they aren’t sure what to do with have often given them to the University. Many of these impressions of history...

Vote Now

This spring, alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots...