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Winter Champions
WrestlingJantzen (left) and Harkness in St. LouisCourtesy of Jesse JantzenAt the NCAA tournament in March, Jesse Jantzen '04 (left) became only...
Yesterday's News
1924 The Bulletin's editors report themselves glad "to record that John Harvard has at last come into his own"—the University...
Stem-cell Science
With an ambitious mandate to cure cellular diseases, Harvard has launched an important new scientific enterprise, the Harvard Stem Cell...
Function and Form
Harvard's physical renewal continues apace. But embedded within that renewal is much that is truly new, reflecting the changed nature of...
The Great Refractor
On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, shown here...
Seduction by Credit
In The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton University Press...
Vote Now!
Alumni will choose five new Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board in this year's election.To be...
Philippe Granjean on mercury poisoning in the Faroe Islands
The pregnant women did not worry about their food. They simply ate it: chunks of fresh whale meat and pounds of fish. They ate it because they...
The Senior Marshals
The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester...
The (New) Calendar Canon
The process has been served. It took a 40-page report, delivered on March 22, but the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, by an...
Harvard A to Z
(Excerpted from Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this May by Harvard University Press...
Meet the New Marshal
As a long-time Harvard administrator, Jacqueline A. O'Neill has attended so many Commencements that she can almost recite the script by heart...