In this Issue

• Yesterdays News [5]
• Harvard Portrait [6]
• Interim Agendas [7]
• An Allston Metamorphosis? [8]
• Adios, Early Admissions [8]
• Money-Management Makeover [9]
• Controversial Visitor [10]
• Bigger Biology [11]
• Brevia [12]
• Sciences and Gender [13]
• The Undergraduate [14]
• Sports [15]
• Alumni [16]
• The College Pump [17]

Journal Opener

Exterior construction of the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering nears completion in this view (see below) from Oxford Street in Cambridge; occupancy is scheduled for next summer. The physical-sciences facility, one of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences largest investments, includes below-grade clean rooms for nanoscale research (see September-October 2005, pages 54-55 [18], for a crane-top view of the excavation). A new courtyardthe roof of the underground laboratorieswill ultimately connect the quadrangle formed by the rising tower, the Music Building, the Science Center, and McKay Laboratory.