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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid

Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid through private enterprise

by John S. Rosenberg

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

by Sophia Nguyen

Corita Kent's screenprints are part of Pop art's history and culture

A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of Harvard astronomer William Cranch Bond, by Alan Hirshfeld

Brief life of Harvard's first astronomer: 1789-1859

by Alan Hirshfeld

Sears in her Woods Hole office in 1960

Brief life of oceanographer Mary Sears, by Peter Denton

Brief life of an oceanographer and patriot: 1905-1997

by Peter Denton

A New Jersey Transit train crosses a 1910 bridge in Kearney, N.J., over which 150,000 to 200,000 passengers cross daily—making it perhaps the busiest rail span in the Western Hemisphere. It is obsolete, but a $940-million plan to replace it remains unfunded.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on solving America’s infrastructure problems

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on solving America’s infrastructure problems

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Olympic aftermath: the 2004 Athens softball venue, derelict a decade later

The economics of a Boston Olympics analyzed

An economic analyst of sports dissects the assumptions behind Boston's bid for the 2024 Olympics.

by Andrew Zimbalist

Eliot, 1919

T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student

A rediscovery of the emerging poet

by Adam Kirsch

Terry Fisher

With SPOCs, HarvardX tries making MOOCs smaller

Online education looks beyond the MOOC.

by Stephanie Garlock

David Ferry

Poet and translator David Ferry, profiled by Spencer Lenfield

Poet and translator David Ferry

by Spencer Lee Lenfield