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The 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Oration
Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, formerly Higgins professor of physics at Harvard, delivers his Phi Beta Kappa Oration, titled "Without God" on June 3...
In China, Slowly Reassembling Lives
The latest story by Geoffrey Fowler ’00, formerly a Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at this magazine, chronicles a family's return to their hometown...
Harvard Names Open Access Architect Director of New Office for Scholarly Publishing
The OSC will be responsible for implementing University policies on open access. Read more about Shieber's appointment...
NYC Book Signing: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Donors were invited to the Harvard Club of New York City for a presentation and book signing.
Update: Chemistry Professor Wins Prize for Imaging Techniques
Professor of chemistry and chemical biology X. Sunney Xie, whose work is detailed in the cover story of our current issue, has won the Berthold Leibinger Research Prize for laser technology...
A Dispatch from Chengdu
"Sunny" Seong-hyon Lee, M.T.S. ’02, forwarded this personal account of survivors coping with the aftermath of the traumatic earthquake in China, and asked the editors to share it with our readers.
Cardenio at the American Repertory Theatre
Donors gathered at the Charles Hotel for a talk and discussion.
Shakespeare, Lost and Found
How could it be that a Shakespeare play currently being performed at the American Repertory Theatre was actually written not by The Bard, but by two men of Harvard?
The Harvard Hedge Fund?
A blog post by Matthew Yglesias ’03 has sparked quite a lively debate about whether Harvard deserves its tax-exempt status...
Update: Harvard Law School Faculty Approves Open Access
In a unanimous vote, members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty have approved making their scholarly articles available on line free of charge...
Corporation Member in the Hot Seat
In a two-hour interview, Rubin answers questions about his role in the housing and credit crisis. The losses, which have rippled throughout the economy...
Explore the history of an ancient city
Hear Jason Ur discuss Tell Brak as it was then and is today...