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A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Illustration by Stuart Bradford

New technologies could one day potentially reengineer species in the wild

New technologies could one day potentially reengineer species in the wild.

Harvard is evaluating “blended" courses that draw on online MOOC material

Harvard evaluates “blended” courses that draw on MOOC material.

In the play-within-a-play, Peter Pan (Melanie Moore) takes the place of honor.

"Finding Neverland" at the ART recasts the story of Peter Pan and J.M. Barrie

The new musical Finding Neverland at the American Repertory Theater once again revives the myth of Peter Pan and his creator, J.M. Barrie.

Dan Shore

Harvard CFO Shore departs for design firm Onshape, Inc.

Joins Cambridge start-up

The big production number “What You Want,” from the London production of <i>Legally Blonde</i>

“Legally Blonde” composer-lyricists Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe profiled

Musicals by Benjamin and O’Keefe excite Broadway.

by Dick Friedman

Photograph by iStock

Harvard Graduate School of Education releases study on teens and digital stress

Study could lead to better support of adolescents growing up in the digital world.

Ram Venkateswaran, of the HMS class of 2017, performs in the Tosteson Medical Education Center’s atrium last spring. He and pianist Chris Lim, HMS ’16, offered a joint program: “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (Fauré); “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (von Paradis); “Spanish Dance” (Granados/Kreisler); and <i>“Widmung</i>” (Schumann/Liszt).

Music and medicine converge at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.

by Karolina Brook

The Tosteson Medical Education Center student performers

The Tosteson Medical Education Center student performers

Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville, Texas. The CPB provided media tours that day of two locations in Brownsville and Nogales, Arizona, that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since last October 1.

A Harvard human-rights expert on Central American child immigrants

A human-rights expert on Central American child immigrants

by Jacqueline Bhabha

Scenes of Harvard Yard on a mid-July morning

An undergraduate's summer at Harvard

Thoughts on a summer in Cambridge

by Francesca Annic...

View of Dunster House, the first residence for upperclassmen to undergo full renewal, from Memorial Drive. Seven weeks after the reconstruction project began, Dunster is almost completely scaffolded, and its iron gate has been removed.

Dunster Demolition

An update on the first renovation of an entire Harvard House

by Francesca Annic...