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Ronald Kessler

Ronald Kessler Photograph by Stu Rosner In on-line biomedical databases, Ronald Kessler ranks as the most widely cited author in...

Relieving Pain

 “When we treat pain, the first thing we do is try to eliminate the source of pain, say, by relieving compression on a nerve,&rdquo...

Puzzles

A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his...

Intelligent Evolution

Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His...

Bridge to Mesopotamia

In a glass case stand a dozen carved statues of gypsum alabaster — male figurines with their hands folded at their chests and their...

Caviar and Heather

The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire, by Richard Adams Carey ’73 (Counterpoint, $26) is a captivatingly...

The Harvard Review

Founded in 1992, the Harvard Review (https://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview) is a biannual, 200-page literary journal that includes poetry...

Katrina's Ripples

In response to Hurricane Katrina, Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Law...

Premier Physicist

Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, has a new title: Nobel laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of...

Literary Ambassador

To assemble a collection of poems that capture the American experience yet are also accessible to children is a daunting task. That’s what...

Brief life of Harvard football pioneer William Henry Lewis

Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949

Harvard in Istanbul

A group of 19 European Harvard club leaders gathered in Istanbul from September 9 to 11, along with HAA executive committee members and leaders...