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Ken’s Story

A “rapidly developing revolution in cancer treatment” has prompted David G. Nathan, M.D., president emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer...

Walls of Power

Following the “decisive moment” tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carlin Wing ’02 started out doing New York street photography...

by Craig Lambert

Unleashing Light

The light microscope launched modern biology in the seventeenth century, letting scientists view the components of life that exist far beyond...

Radcliffe and Other “Shared Interest Groups”

Among the University’s new Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) is the fledgling Alumnae and Friends of Radcliffe College, led by Ellen Gordon...

Legal Legroom

An aerial view of the proposed new building, looking northwest from a vantage point above the Science Center Rendering courtesy of...

Institutional Innovators in Teaching and Learning

An online-only supplement to "Taking Teaching Seriously," November-December 2006

Grolier Reincarnated

Tucked into a single room behind a window in Harvard Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is to the world of bookselling what La Sainte...

by Nathan Heller

Well Done

The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni...

"Unsales" Pitches

These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Fleet Policy

Her mother says that Lindsey Scherf 08 was running as soon as she could walk; she might almost have sprinted out of the womb. Given her current...

by Craig Lambert

An Allston Metamorphosis?

Harvard's first science complex in Allston will be big by any measure. One thousand people will work in a facility designed as four buildings...

Adam Kirsch interviews Seamus Heaney

Adam Kirsch, in New York, interviewed Seamus Heaney, in Ireland, by fax in mid September. Kirsch: When I was a student in one of your...