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2001-2002 Ledecky Fellows
Photograph by Stu Rosner The students who will serve as Harvard Magazine's 2001-2002 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows--both...
Bunk, in Faded Gingham
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Harvard's arrogance, and its just rewards, are the topics of...
Purse Strings of the Heart
Odysseus struggled to resist the Sirens. Adam Smith warned of dangerous passions for profusion. And we have all, despite our diets, succumbed to...
Harvard as Seen in Its Buildings
As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening with Champions, organized by the students at Eliot House, takes place at the...
July 2, Day 1
Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in...
Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"
When he was a graduate student at Harvard, recalls Richard Light, Ph.D. '69, resources for learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding...
William Brooks Cabot
Cabot in a caribou-skin coat. A sampling of his photographs of the Naskapi and their homeland is below. All images © William Brooks...
Driven to Cure
Stephen B. Howell Photomontage by Bartek Malysa On a breezy San Diego evening, Stephen B. Howell, M.D. '70, dons his white coat and begins...
Of Solar Panels and Salvaged Sinks
As fuel costs skyrocket and concerns grow about the world's energy resources, the idea of creating a more energy-efficient home becomes more...
Off the Shelf
Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection, selected and with an introduction by Frederick I. Ordway III '49 (Four Walls Eight...
Putting the Science in Social Science
Can political scientists devise formulas to predict the outbreak of war? Although the notion seems far-fetched, James Alt wants you to say...