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Seniors of Note
“The members of this year’s graduating class all possess talents and experiences that will carry them far in the world beyond the...
Flexible Movies
“You never see cartoons where there are bad outcomes,” says Michelle Crames, M.B.A. ’03, founder and CEO of Lean Forward Media...
Crimson Intermediary
At a press conference, new Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is flanked by translator Masafumi Hoshino ’02 (left) and...
Artful Engineering
In a single undergraduate course last fall, students tackled all of the following: engineering nanofood particles to combat childhood obesity...
Growth Spurt
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to...
Interim Successor Named for Ailing FAS Dean
Pilbeam served on the faculty’s Task Force on General Education, whose recommendations are the basis of draft legislation the faculty is now debating...
FAS Dean is Ill; Curriculum Review Continues
The president urged the faculty to address the business at hand so all present could “give a good account of ourselves” when Knowles was able to resume his duties...
A Personal Genome Machine?
In a laboratory behind the Science Center, researchers are working on a high-stakes project at the nexus of physics and biology. If all goes...
The Rub on the Pub
Undergraduates will soon be able to relax in a new campus pub, scheduled to open early in April. The gathering spot is part of a $4.5-million...
Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005
Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year...
Harvard’s 50-Year Plan
Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of...
Chapter & Verse
Wayles Brown asks whether anyone can provide an exact source and the precise wording for a comment often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “The...