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Congratulations to the winners of our Harvard Square history quiz

Congratulations to winner Javier Bastos, M.Ed. ’98, and honorable mention Carol Horne.

Losing the News

Magazine donors visited Malkin Penthouse at the Kennedy School of Government for a book signing.

Harvard faculty retirement offers

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and four professional schools offer incentives for senior professors to plan their retirements.

Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light to Step Down

Light joined the HBS faculty in 1969 and has been dean since 2005.

Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese

Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard 14, Yale 10

Two late-game touchdowns bring victory at Yale Bowl.

by Bethell, John T

November 14, 2009: Penn 17, Harvard 7

Quakers quash Crimson hopes of a third straight Ivy championship.

by Bethell, John T

Museum of Comparative Zoology at 150

On the enduring value of natural history museums and the study of life's species

by Madeleine Schwartz

Harvard library system faces restructuring

The intellectually extraordinary but decentralized system needs administrative, financial, and technological reorganization, according to the Task Force on University Libraries.

Harvard veterans and Medal of Honor winners honored

Harvard’s Medal of Honor winners and other alumni veterans, living and dead, were honored by President Drew Faust and U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Casey during a Memorial Church service.

Harvard reports on women, minorities, faculty diversity

The annual report on faculty development and diversity shows gains for women, but slow progress for black and Latino professors. Further progress, ironically, may come from senior-faculty retirements.

Articles on fundamentalism, juvenile justice, the homebuyer tax credit, and more

Our roundup also includes items on the percentage of new Harvard M.B.A.s entering finance, Harvard's role in conflict mediation in Iraq, "Netflix for dresses," and a stylish professor of engineering.