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1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard...

"I can no longer support the president"

Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14. In an interview following the official announcement two weeks...

Caves

Robert Creeley ’47 died on March 30, shortly after being named the poet for the Literary Exercises conducted annually by Harvard’s...

Aloian Scholars

Navin Kumar ’06, of Kirkland House, and Joshua Reyes ’05, of Leverett House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars...

Ice Cream and Vinegar

Seventeen authors, several of them Harvardians, reread a book or a poem (or the Sgt. Pepper lyrics) that impressed them in their youths and...

2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows

Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue and senior...

Too Much Sunscreen?

For many summers, people have slathered and sprayed on sunscreens and fretted about SPF factors while scrambling to protect themselves from...

by Craig Lambert

Congo Report

The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to...

A Robust Decade at the Business School

Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call...

Wine: White or Red?

David Sinclair, associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, is often asked about sources for resveratrol. “The molecule...

Corporation member quits

Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14...

Commencement 2005

Speech transcripts from Commencement 2005