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Branded

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." “Does Harvard ‘brand’ matter...

The Science of Hurt

The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t...

Job Notices

Several college programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning...

Happy Surprises

Success is making a bit of trouble for Gabriel Bremer and Analia Verolo. Two years ago they bought Salts, a popular bistro near Central Square...

by Christopher Reed

All-Court Wonder

Last winter, in the waning minutes of the Harvard men’s home basketball game against Princeton, a tight contest with several lead changes...

by Craig Lambert

Overseas Insourcing

Since the 1950s, the United States has led the world in science and technology, training an unrivaled pool of physicists, engineers, biologists...

Headlines from Harvard history, November-December 1915-1985

1915 Professor Theodore Richards becomes the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Illustration by Mark Steele 1930...

Google Pauses

An undertaking greeted by Harvard librarians as potentially “a revolutionary new information-location tool” and “an important...

Better-than-Balanced Books

Faster revenue growth, plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal...

Sky High

Ardent flight instructor, aerobatics competitor, and self-proclaimed space junkie James E. Smolen ’71, Ph.D. ’76, has a distinctive...

The Harvard Film Archive

 “It’s Ali Baba’s cave,” says internationally renowned filmmaker Dusan Makavejev of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA)...

Congratulations

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