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A "Nook" for my book? One undergraduate says she'd rather have the real thing

An undergraduate decides she'd rather have the real thing.

by Elizabeth C. Bloom

Harvey Mansfield: The Bradley Prize and a critique of Harvard

The Kenan professor of government assesses his University.

Journalists Tim Noah and E. J. Dionne Jr. win Hillman Prizes

Recognized for reporting on inequality and for career achievement

Nearly 77 percent of students accepted to the class of 2015 enroll

Nearly 77 percent of students enroll, disappointing those on the wait list.

Howard Gardner receives 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

The Spanish award honors "scientific, technical, cultural, social, and humanistic work performed at an international level."

Book Signing and Reception with Joanne Chang ’91

Magazine donors gathered at the Murr Center Lounge in Allston for a book signing and reception.

Atul Gawande to address medical and dental school graduating classes

The surgeon and professor of health policy won a National Magazine Award this week.

Meet Tiffany Smalley, Harvard's first Wampanoag graduate in 346 years

Tiffany Smalley ’11 follows in the footsteps of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, A.B. 1665.

TED curator Chris Anderson to speak at Graduate School of Design's Class Day

Chris Anderson will speak at the Graduate School of Design on May 25.

In 1956, John F. Kennedy urged politicians and intellectuals to work together

In 1956, the future president sought to persuade intellectuals and politicians to work better together.

In the 1968 Class Day speech, Coretta Scott King praised student activism

Two months after her husband’s murder, the civil-rights leader’s widow delivered the 1968 Class Day speech.

Walter Cronkite issued a challenge to the class of 1980

"Pick up your cudgels and man (and woman) the barricades" against overpopulation, pollution, natural-resource depletion, and nuclear proliferation, he advised.