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Baccalaureate Address
Derek Bok, Harvard University President Emeritus Kennedy School. Harvard president Derek Bok salutes the graduating seniors and reminds them that pursuing material values will not bring happiness; one needs ethical content in one’s work...
Public Health Commencement Address
Dr. Julio Frenk, former Minister of Health of Mexico and visiting professor delivers the Harvard School of Public Health Commencement Address...
Highlights of the Schlesinger Library Collection
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
College Curriculum Change Completed
On May 15, at its sixth consecutive weekly meeting (the normal schedule is monthly), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to adopt the proposal for...
Faust Names Grosz Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean
Harvard president-elect Drew Gilpin Faust made her first decanal appointment today, naming computer scientist Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins professor of natural sciences...
An Earlier Bid for Mastery
New genetic knowledge may let us manipulate our nature: beef up our muscles, brush up our memory, make designer children. What’s wrong...
Signals for Change
With his flowing white hair and Mixtec Indian physique, Hugo Morales ’72, J.D. ’75, spoke recently to a crowd, mostly prominent...
Modern Milk
The milk we drink today may not be nature’s perfect food,” says Ganmaa Davaasambuu, a Mongolian physician who is a fellow this year...
Off the Fast Track
Slow down, please, said community members comprising the Harvard-Allston Task Force. May we take things one at a time? Of course, said Harvard...
An Invitation to Reminisce
Daniel Gensler ’72, one of the students gathered below on the steps of University Hall in this April 1969 photograph, invites classmates...
Science's “Third Branch”
Why are doctors from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital working with Harvard astrophysicists? And why is Professor Jeff Lichtman...