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Hop, Skip, and Soar
Post-doctoral fellow Gary Gillis plays "catcher" behind a tammar wallaby on a fast-moving treadmill. Hopping marsupials like...
In Memoriam
The staff of Harvard Magazine wish to express their sorrow at the loss of the following alumni in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001...
Chapter & Verse
Howard Hillman seeks a "botanically correct" poem describing two adjacent climbing vines that fall in love with each other and embrace...
Language Lessons
Former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Elizabeth Gudrais '01 returned from a fellowship in Latvia in December and is now...
Nathan Marsh Pusey
In his habits of character and his presidential style, Nathan Pusey '28, Ph.D '37, LL.D '72, was a figure of transition. The last of a breed in...
Second in Command
In his installation address on October 12 and in a subsequent talk to alumni 15 days later, President Lawrence H. Summers emphasized that...
Far from Clueless
Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks and management consulting firms in New York City...
Battling Bioterrorism
When people started dying of inhalation anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, it took "six days to discern the outbreak...
Reunion: The Musical
Six years ago, at the class of 1961's thirty-fifth reunion, Phil Carl sang a few songs during the cabaret-style festivities. Classmate Dan Klein...
A Crisis in Caregiving
Who will take care of our elders? Low pay, poor training, meager prospects for advancement, and major population shifts are creating a national...
Fall Sports in Brief
The men's soccer team (10-5-1, 5-2 Ivy) finished third in the Ivies, having reeled off a five-game winning streak in midseason. The booters...
Microbes Eat the Past
In 1969, astronauts Edwin Eugene ("Buzz") Aldrin and Neil Armstrong bounced along the moon's dusty surface wearing the toughest work...