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As Disciplines Converge
Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. One way to trace emerging fields is...
On Undergraduate Education
(as prepared for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty appointments...
News from the HAA
Harvard Medalists Three alumni received the Harvard Medal and were publicly honored for their extraordinary service by President Lawrence H...
Families on the Edge
Humberto started to pace back and forth across the floor of the cinder-block home, cradling his son in his arms. There had to be a story. In...
On Preventing Sexual Violence
Much more aggressive education, a new office to provide "the first line of support" to students with concerns about sexual violence...
Making Things Happen
Last fall, World War II veteran Lawrence Lader '41 and several octogenarian Harvard classmates marched in uniform in front of the White House to...
Integrity Has Its Price
Imagine: A complete stranger promises a brand-new digital camera if you'll send $100. Once the check clears, you're told, the camera will be in...
Robert M. Gogan Jr.
Robert M Gogan, Jr. Photograph by Stu Rosner Rob Gogan is Harvard's recycling and waste-management impresario. "It's a dream job,"...
Summer at the Beach
For 42 summers, George Howe Colt '76 repaired to the four-story, 11-bedroom ark of a summer house his great-grandfather Ned Atkinson built on a...
Commencement Confetti
VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary degrees, and 290 certificates at its 352nd Commencement. Diplomas went...
What Crimson Means to Me
My first Harvard memory is deciding not to go here. I had never really considered attending, but my high-school principal, a big Harvard...
At Large on the Blue Frontier
Science is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often...