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Why Harvard Needs International Students

Global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Them Apples

Images courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums In Manhattan in 1958, the year he graduated from Princeton, Frank Stella assembled the...

Life Lessons

With portaits by Mark Ostow In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to...

Intelligent Evolution

Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His...

Cinema Veritas

In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class in “Filming Science” is scattered among the seats, waiting for an...

by Harbour Fraser ...

Brief life of Harvard football pioneer William Henry Lewis

Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949

The Science of Hurt

The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t...

Exiting Iraq

I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians:...

Frances Glessner Lee

To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...

Caves

Robert Creeley ’47 died on March 30, shortly after being named the poet for the Literary Exercises conducted annually by Harvard’s...

The Slave Rebellion in New York City

Historian Jill Lepore explores the lives of slaves during an alleged eighteenth century uprising

by Jonathan Shaw