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The Relevant Biomedical Research
The story of smart drugs and their role in the present cancer-treatment revolution has its roots in the nineteenth century, when a...
Cultural Chaos
Forty years ago, millions of China’s urban youth rose up in response to the Great Helmsman’s call to “bombard the...
Mapping Music
Humans seem to have an instinct for music. Certain songs have a quality that makes us want to tap our toes and sing along. We can’t quite...
Eternal Creatures
Top: A nudibranch. Bottom: A “by-the-wind sailor” sea jelly. Photographs courtesy of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology...
A general-education proposal to replace Harvard’s Core curriculum is debated
After three years of inconclusive work on a new general-education component for the College, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to...
Forecourt Phenoms
In the world of college squash, Harvard was once a perennial national champion. The Crimson have bagged 30 such titles, far more than any other...
Allston Plan Imminent
Harvard is expected to file with the City of Boston, early in January, an institutional master plan that maps out development of the Allston...
Exemplary Contributors
With great pleasure, the editors recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine during 2006, awarding each $1,000 for their distinguished...
The Science of Happiness
This doesn’t feel like a normal academic conference. True, the three-day Positive Psychology Summit is a sellout, with 425 attendees...
Where the Eyeballs Are
“These are trying times for political cartoonists,” observes Kevin P. Kallaugher ’77. “I’m trying something new...
Eight Americas
A map of Americans’ health status and longevity resembles a microcosm of global health extremes. Although Asian-American women in Bergen...
Studies Nature, Will Travel
From the highest treetops to the tiniest anthills on the ground below, Mark Moffett, Ph.D. ’87, has seen it all. An expert in insects and...