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Harvard fundraising needs and competition

The University approaches a public fundraising drive

The beginning of Thomas’s entry in the Class of 1838’s Class Book (Harvard University Archives, HUD 238.714)

Memoir of "Lighthouse Thomas," A.B. 1838: from a hole in the ground to Harvard

From a hole in the ground to Harvard

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

Weiler on his way up to clear the bar (green, at left). Note the bend in his pole, far below. The orange foam pads cushion landings.

Harvard's Nico Weiler is a pole vault champion

Nico Weiler clears inhuman heights, and not by human instinct.

by Craig Lambert

Updating a classic: CB22x, the online version of Gregory Nagy’s vintage “Heroes” course

Harvard's edX venture: growth and challenges

A first-year report on HarvardX and edX, the online-education partnership with MIT

This posthumous 2007 portrait, by Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, was commissioned by the Harvard Foundation four decades after Monro left Harvard for Miles College.

John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela

Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002

by Toni-Lee Capossela

An animation of the Giant Magellan Telescope

An animation of the next class of super giant earth-based telescopes that promises to revolutionize our view and understanding of the universe.

Humans lack a mouse’s high tolerance for bacteria in the bloodstream, a clue that the two species have evolved very different responses to inflammatory disease.

Mouse model doesn't work for human inflammatory diseases

Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Astrophysicist Anna Frebel, outside and (below) observing at the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes in Chile.

Anna Frebel cosmology via probing ancient dwarf stars

A young astrophysicist finds clues to the origins of stars and galaxies by probing ancient, dwarf stars within and near the Milky Way

Fragment of a wall tile from Iran, dating from the thirteenth to fourteenth century

Harvard showcases Calderwood Collection art from Iran, Iraq, and Central Asia

Art on display from Iran, Iraq, and Central Asia spans a millennium.

by Christopher Reed