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How to Care for Your Grandfather's Teddy Bear

Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth keeping safe, such as photographs of one's wedding; or those fading...

Genomic Joint Venture

Harvard, its hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research announced on June 19 that they will together create a...

Ibn al-Haytham

One of the most distinguished and prolific mathematicians in the medieval tradition of Arabic Islamic science, al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham...

by Abdelhamid I. Sabra

"Medicine changes you."

Rather than lay out his every future career move, Vivek Murthy has looked for those things in his life that have generated "feelings of...

Stair Trek

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Philip M. Williams '57 dropped by Primus's third-floor office...

Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess MediPaul Levycal Center...

Bacteria Are the Cake

Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D. '77, Fisher professor of natural history, is a paleontologist who integrates geological and biological perspectives on...

Undergraduate Scribes

Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows—and "Undergraduate" columnists—for this academic year are...

One Nation, under Allah

Several years ago, an international wire service carried a story about a blind man in Saudi Arabia who visited his doctor for an annual...

For the Virtual Museumgoer

The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth birthday by mounting an exhibition, from October 24 through February 15, 2004, devoted...

$400 Million for Law

It rained on the Harvard Law School (HLS) rainmakers gathered in Langdell Hall for dinner on Friday, June 13, and in a heated tent on Holmes...

Stadium Stories

November 1903: Dartmouth scores the first Stadium touchdown. Note unfinished stands.Harvard University Sports InformationINAUSPICIOUS...