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Bubbles and "Champagne"

For a woman once accused of lacking the requisite "math gene," Julie Fouquet '80 has done pretty well. After graduation, she earned a...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Reshaping the Science Center

A treasure buried in the basement of the Science Center for years, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will at last be...

A Scientific Windfall for the University?

A prestigious research institute in east Cambridge, and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into...

Widener Library: Youthful at the Core

The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips Reading Room opened for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of...

Women, Working

When Harvard Business School's Baker Library amassed the bulk of its manuscript collection in the first half of the twentieth century, curators...

Waldo Peirce

Waldo Peirce '07/'08/'09 almost didn't graduate from Harvard. By his own admission he spent too much time in Leavitt and Peirce (no relation)...

Comings and Goings

Local Harvard clubs organize a number of lectures and social events. What follows is a list of some of the gatherings planned. For further...

Obsessed at Harvard

Artist and writer Edward Gorey '50, who died in 1999, once told a would-be interviewer, "The facts of my life are so few, tedious, and...

Harvard football undefeated in 2001

After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...

by Bethell, John T

Airing Out the Living Wage

The occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)--proponents of a minimum "living wage" of...

The Law of Gravity

What goes up indeed comes down. Following the breathtaking 32.2 percent return on investments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, Harvard...

The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered

"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...

by Adam Kirsch