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Money and Military Recruiting
With a fiscal gun at the University’s head, Harvard Law School (HLS) has reversed its position on military recruiting on its campus. The...
$tellar Swan Song
Ending his 15-year run as president of Harvard Management Company, Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. ’69, and his investment colleagues turned in a...
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...
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...
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...