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Ledecky Fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year
Photograph by Jim Harrison Liz Goodwin and Samuel Bjork Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the...
The Glass House
The following text is a sidebar to "Modern and Historic," September-October 2007. The Glass House New Canaan, Connecticut...
Engineering Renewed
Celebrating its own nifty bit of reengineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), elevated from the status of a division of...
The Forgotten Modernist
If there’s one name associated with the reputation of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the cradle of American modern...
Honorable Forester
Peter Shaw Ashton stepped into his first Asian tropical forest 50 years ago last March. For what he has accomplished in those steamy reaches, he...
The Vernacular
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Betty Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard...
Chords from Radius
“Playing chamber music for a white, affluent audience that is experienced in this kind of music doesn’t light my fire nearly as much...
"We Need a Win"
Editor’s note: More people than ever before seem to be seeking the U.S. presidency. Rather than profile alumni who are running for...
Slowing Sperm
Many women fantasize about it: a male birth-control pill. After all, most existing contraceptives place sole responsibility for preventing...
Arsenic and Old Lead
The Arnold Arboretum anticipated closing a deal last December to sell the Case Estates, its 62.5-acre property (complete with barn and two other...
Howard Gardner
Photograph by Stu Rosner Howard Gardner As a psychologist, Howard Gardner is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, first...
Gordon McKay
Brief life of an inventor with a lasting Harvard legacy: 1821-1903