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11.1.2003

The Mediterranean diet has become a kind of gold standard for healthy eating among the cognoscenti. Oleana, near Inman Square, proves that it...

11.1.2003

Harvard Medical School, in an historic expansion rivaling the construction of its original white marble quadrangle a century ago, dedicated its...

11.1.2003

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths, by Mary Lefkowitz, Ph.D. '61, RI '73 (Yale University Press, $30). Lefkowitz, who has...

11.1.2003

In the fall of 1927, the small group of black students at Harvard learned of the impending arrival of an exceptionally gifted new black graduate...

11.1.2003

Photographs Courtesy of Harvard University Archives. Photograph of Bronze Statue Courtesy of the Harvard Univerxity Portrait Collection, 2003...

11.1.2003

In the mid 1980s, Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D. '92, turned to tennis to ease the pressure of his intensive graduate studies in biophysics. His search...

11.1.2003

11.1.2003

The curriculum may be remade, plans for Allston refined and implemented, but no monument to administrative accomplishment at Harvard would equal...

11.1.2003

Courtesy WGBHPhysicists' quest for the "theory of everything," now focused on string theory, poses unusual problems of imagination...

11.1.2003

The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard's growing commitment to life sciences, particularly those involving biomedical research. Three events...

11.1.2003

The news, reported in the November 14, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), sounded startling. C-reactive protein (CRP)...

11.1.2003

1923 Responding to a New York Times assertion that "information from Harvard, Princeton and Yale" indicates that the Volstead Act...