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The Great Refractor
On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, shown here...
Seduction by Credit
In The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton University Press...
Vote Now!
Alumni will choose five new Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board in this year's election.To be...
Philippe Granjean on mercury poisoning in the Faroe Islands
The pregnant women did not worry about their food. They simply ate it: chunks of fresh whale meat and pounds of fish. They ate it because they...
The Senior Marshals
The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester...
The (New) Calendar Canon
The process has been served. It took a 40-page report, delivered on March 22, but the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, by an...
Kick-off Event
Guests enjoyed a lively reading by and discussion with Helen Vendler.
The Rhodes Roster
Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?...
An Icy Amenity
Photograph by Stu Rosner Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan testified that she decided on the spur of a frozen moment in January...
Arts and Sciences' Ambitious Plans
In his annual report, published in early February, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby outlined three simultaneous...
Kids Turn New Pages
Parents in the 1960s generally expected their children to be passive observers who did as they were told. Today's parents are more likely to...
Walter Channing
In a career spanning nearly six decades, Walter Channing provided the medical skills and compassionate care women sought as they faced the pain...