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Vaillancourt Honored as Best on Ice
Sarah Vaillancourt ’09 was awarded the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, designating her the top female hockey player in the country...
As Supreme Court Takes Up Gun Ban, Greenhouse Is Watching
Radcliffe alumna. Linda Greenhouse ’68 has covered the Supreme Court for the Times for nearly 30 years, but recently announced that she is taking a buyout and retiring...
For HBS Professor, Babies and Business Intersect
This week's "Spiritual Life" column in the Boston Globe features the work of Debora L. Spar, the Spangler family professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and president-designate of Barnard College...
Now That's What You Call the "Reader's Digest" Version
Lizzie Widdicombe ’06 chronicles her attendance at a book party for Not Quite What I Was Planning, a compilation of six-word memoirs...
Dead or Alive? Seems Like a Simple Question, But...
The "Ideas" section in this week's Boston Sunday Globe had an article exploring how the advances of modern medicine have made "death" a subjective term...
Faust Tells Congress: Don't Downsize Research
University President Drew Faust testified before a Congressional committee this morning, urging lawmakers...
Jenny Lee Talks Chinese Food on "The Colbert Report"
Among Colbert's questions: "Is Chinese food safer to eat than Chinese toys?"
Sheryl Sandberg will join Facebook as chief operating officer
She has Harvard ties even beyond her degrees: she once served as chief of staff to former University President Lawrence H. Summers, during...
Hammonds Named Dean of the College
Full text of the announcement as well as Harvard Magazine's previous coverage of Hammonds...
Set Design for Grease
Theatrical set designer Derek McLane ’80 shows how his work progresses — from initial sketches on a yellow legal pad through the musical’s finished sets...
Joanne Chang’s Sticky Buns
Get Chang’s sticky bun recipe and see how they’re made.
Finding Physics in Everyday Objects
Watch Harvard applied mathematics professor L. Mahadevan create wrinkles, folds, and a flutter