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Running on Wind?
Michael B. McElroy’s research group has launched an extensive program to define the potential of wind power as a source of electricity...
Gains for Graduate Students
Harvard’s new formula for undergraduate financial aid, unveiled on December 10, overshadowed its consequential changes in support for...
Profile of Broadway set designer Derek McLane
Set designer Derek McLane (Harvard ’80) has designed stages for "Grease," "Guys and Dolls," "The Pajama Game," and Pulitzer Prize-winning "I Am My Own Wife," and many other plays.
Trauma and Social Injustice
“There’s actually been no institutional relationship between personal healing and social justice,” says professor of...
Life's Speed Limit
Mutation is the engine of evolution: organisms would not be able to evolve new characteristics if their DNA did not randomly acquire small...
HAA Clubs Committee Awards
The HAA clubs committee Awards honor individuals who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club or shared interest group (SIG), as well as...
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...
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...
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...
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...