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• Education Executive • Harvard Portrait • Harvard by the Numbers • Sweeping Change for Science • Map...
Extracurriculars
Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this fall, from jazz bands and rowing competitions to a retrospective on Rembrandt and a Latino film festival.
History-Making Astronaut
Stephanie Wilson ’88 lived out nearly every child’s fantasy when she soared aloft aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery in...
Vulnerable Sculpture
Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released into the wider world, sculptures may even inhabit the fourth...
Therapeutic Cloning Research Approved
Scientists at Harvard and the affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston announced on June 6 that they had begun experiments with somatic cell...
Supporting Young Scientists
What does it mean to be part of a community of scientists? For Chimdimnma (“Chi-Chi”) Esimai ’08, it meant, for one thing...
"Harvard Can Change the World"
Lawrence H. Summers met with Harvard Magazine at the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall on June 22. Edited excerpts...
Edwin Ginn
There will be no need of great national armies,” Edwin Ginn declaimed in 1901, once an international force controlled by a league of...
Aloian Scholars
Eric Lesser ’07, of Kirkland House, and Lauren Tulp ’07, of Eliot House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars.
Maestro Lenny
Leonard Bernstein ’39, D.Mus. ’67, will always be remembered as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, but he was a native New...
How Not to Fumble
Clifton Dawson has become a standout running back because of what he has done, but he has also excelled at not doing something: fumbling the...
“Alternative” Placebos
Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning...