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An Understanding Eye

The thrill Amanda Lumry '99 felt when she inspected her first roll of pictures in second grade has never changed: "I still marvel...

On Mathematical Imagination by Barry Mazur

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, said Shakespeare, are of imagination all compact. He forgot the mathematician, whose daily concerns are...

From Courtroom to Comedy Club

"I was on the subway recently," says Karen Bergreen '87. "There was a little boy crying. I thought, 'What can I do?' I felt awful. Then I...

“People Who Look like You”

Sitting on a radiator in a Science Center corridor, Deborah A. Batts '69, J.D. '72, who is U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New...

by Nathan Heller

Neuroscience News

Harvard's emerging Center for Systems Neuroscience got a double boost in late fall: the appointment of its first director and the approval by...

DNA as Data

When George McDonald Church arrived at Harvard in 1977, nine out of 10 biologists did research without touching a computer. They wrote journal...

News from Harvard@Home

Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, offers several new programs for 2004. They include: *Diana L. Eck...

Harvard Calendar

THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream from January 10 through February 28 at the Loeb...

Advice to America from a French Friend

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."In the course of scholarly rummaging in the Harvard University...

The Middle-Class Trapdoor

In 2001, more men and women went bankrupt than filed for divorce or graduated from college (1.5 million versus 1.1 million and 1.2 million...

by Harbour Fraser ...

A review of the 2003 Harvard's football 2003 season

Ryan Fitzpatrick '05, the football team's multi-talented quarterback, is a gamer. After breaking a bone in his throwing hand in the season's...

by Bethell, John T

Creating Community, On-line and Off

The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy for Harvard bloggers.Robert John Bennett '68, who's writing a novel on-line, posted...