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Lights! Microscopes! Action!
View clips from the laboratories of several Harvard researchers that demonstrate advances in optical microscopy from "Shedding Light on Life" in the May-June 2008 issue...
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A Peal Before Leaving
Question: “What was I, a young American student of medicine and electrical engineering—and an observant Jew—doing in the...
George Bancroft
Brief life of a public historian: 1800-1891...
New Year's Summiteers
Photograph courtesy of Pamela Wolfe Crimson hikers (from left) Anne Walston ’67, Éva Borsody Das ’63, and Ken Moller...
A Reunion of One’s Own
Connecting in the digital age...
Getting My Feet Wet
I remember many things from my cousin’s wedding—my poofy bridesmaid’s dress, the humidity, how pretty the small church looked...
by Liz Goodwin
A Scatter of Acorns
Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...
Cambridge 02138
Green energy options, foreign policy, medical errors, military jurist...
Race in a Genetic World
“I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical...
Visionary Donors
Robert Bliss died in 1962, Mildred Bliss in 1969, but the benefactors of Dumbarton Oaks still cast a long shadow over their former home...
Comings and Goings
University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (please see the partial list below)...
The Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year include a Harvard College Class Day speech by chairman of the Federal...