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Graduate School Medalists

Each June, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the...

Off the Shelf

Beach Stones, photographs by Josie Iselin ’84, text by Margaret W. Carruthers (Abrams, $17.95). Here is an international gathering of...

Fleeting Fame

Kaavya Viswanathan’s 15 minutes of fame proved unusually nasty and brutish as well as short. Publicity profiles anticipating the...

Israel and Academia

On March 23, the London Review of Books published a long essay on “The Israel Lobby,” by Harrison distinguished service professor of...

International Investments

Harvard’s global ambitions to study and know more about the world, and to send more students out into it, were triply boosted at the end...

Musical Activist

Mainstream pop culture churns out plenty of rockers and rappers, but Derrick N. Ashong ’97, G ’08, is plugged into a different...

A Deadly Emotional Disease

Despite remarkable advances in the treatment of mild mood and anxiety disorders in recent years, many people with severe depression do not find...

Class Gifts

The University had received $506 million in gifts through May 31 of the fiscal year, $13 million ahead of donation totals at the same time a...

Grand Adventures

Last summer Lucy and Richard Sallick visited a horse farm, an olive-oil factory, and the museums of Florence—all with their grandchildren...

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Stadium, Returfed

Record it for the history books: the last of 646 football games played on natural grass at Harvard Stadium since 1903 is over and gone—the...

Hold the Garlic Mustard

Garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, a European native, immigrated to the United States in the 1800s, says Kristina Stinson, “perhaps...

by Christopher Reed

Reconfiguring the Curriculum

Much work on refashioning the undergraduate curriculum remains for the next academic year, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded...