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Prolific writer Francine Prose

Francine Prose writes fiction and nonfiction in many forms. With an audio clip of the author discussing her writing process.

Calendar of cultural events in and around Harvard Square

Early fall happenings at Harvard

Harvard Medical School revises conflicts-of-interest policies

As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.

Robert Pringle says termite-mound distribution reveals ecosystem productivity

Robert Pringle says the grid-like distribution of Kenyan termite mounds helps answer an old question about ecosystems.

by Samuel Bjork

Brief life of American textile industry entrepreneur Francis Cabot Lowell

Brief life of an American entrepreneur: 1775-1817

by Dan Yaeger

In photographs by Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Beijing as "urban utopia"

Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.

by John S. Rosenberg

Excerpt from "Nurturing Children and Families," a tribute to T. Berry Brazelton

Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's breakthrough in understanding newborns as complex, capable beings

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history

Innovative museums highlight New England's industrial past

Innovative museums highlight New England's industrial past.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard moves to a tenure track for appointing professors

Revised promotion policies transform younger faculty members' lives—and promise sweeping changes in the professoriate as a whole.

Michael Greenberg studies molecular-level memory formation and eRNA

Neurobiologist Michael Greenberg investigates how memories form at a molecular level, and discovers a new class of RNA.

Mindfulness—the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer

Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.

by Cara Feinberg