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Timberlake and Hathaway snag Pudding pots, Carlos Slim gift, IRS audit, and more

UPDATED. Our roundup also includes news of a gift from Carlos Slim, a favorable ranking of Harvard's value among colleges, and an audit by the IRS.

Harvard begins Fogg museum renovation

UPDATED. A wholesale renovation and reconstruction of Harvard’s flagship Fogg Art Museum has begun, despite the challenging financial environment.

Monuments Men map

See the routes four Harvard-affiliated Monuments Men followed as they traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis.

Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Hosts Haiti Map Portal

The Center for Geographic Analysis has created an online portal and sent up-to-date high-resolution wall maps with a delegation traveling to the earthquake-stricken country.

Harvard College applications top 30,000

Preliminary results show a record of more than 30,000 applicants.

Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.

Biographical sketch of Chinese pharmacologist Li Shizhen

Brief life of a pioneering pharmacologist: 1518-1593

by Carla Nappi

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"

Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"

by Melanie E. Long

Harvard beats Yale, loses Ivy crown to Penn

Yale saved its best for last. So did Harvard.

by Bethell, John T

Sam Beer and Charles Townsend Copeland

What made Sam Beer and Charles Townsend Copeland great

Harvard Monuments Men in World War II

Harvard men who struggled to protect artistic and historic treasures during World War II