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Fortune Cookie Mystery
Jennifer 8. Lee ’99, a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at this magazine, explores research on the provenance of the fortune cookie...
You Put WHAT In Your Harvard Application?
How far will high-school seniors go to get college admissions officers' attention...
"Harry Potter" Author to Speak at Commencement
University president Drew Gilpin Faust said: "Perhaps no one in our time has done more than J.K. Rowling to inspire young people to experience the excitement and the sheer joy of reading. Global sales of Rowling's seven novels...
Autism Update
In a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Boston Autism Consortium members reported a significant breakthrough...
Stem Cells in the New Year
Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, offers his predictions for what 2008 holds for the field of stem-cell research...
Welcome to the Blogosphere
There are thousands of blogs out there; Dalio and his staff read them so the rest of us don't have to...
Robotic Fly
Watch a microrobotic fly from Professor Robert Wood's laboratory...
Science and Sleep on Line
The University’s Office of News and Public Affairs has debuted HarvardScience (https://harvardscience.harvard.edu), a website on...
"...In My Mind I Am Perplexed"
The Civil War transformed American society and institutions. It brought about the formal end of slavery (but not of racial discrimination). It...
"Poems Are Not Position Papers"
Porter University Professor Helen Vendler grew up with her mother’s poetry books, which “stopped with the Victorians.” It was...
Helping Out, Abroad and at Home
En route to the math placement exam, Annette Ghee ’83 met classmate Burt Hamner. Each one thought the other cute… and they were...
Unique Senior Housing
During the last five years, MIT’s former director of planning, Robert Simha, MIT president emeritus Paul Gray, and a core group of other...