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Why Harvard Needs International Students

Global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

The Aging Enigma

Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, neurodegeneration, reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of...

by Jonathan Shaw

Deep into Sleep

Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist...

by Craig Lambert

Brief biographical sketch of poet Elizabeth Bishop

By the time Elizabeth Bishop settled into her apartment on the Boston waterfront, in recently refurbished Lewis Wharf, it was 1974. She was 63...

India's Promise

Things have never been as good for India as they appear to be today. Its economy has grown by nearly 6 percent annually for the past...

Mad for Degas

In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar...

by Christopher Reed

Literary Warrior

The study where Mark Helprin writes his novels and short stories, essays, speeches, letters, and Wall Street Journal columns is a spectacular...

by Craig Lambert

Art of the Hunt

A Persian prince of antiquity possessed hunting equipment of often inescapable effectiveness—a trained cheetah. See the manuscript painting...

by Christopher Reed

A Thumb on the Scale

In February 2004, when Harvard allotted an additional $2 million per year in scholarship funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of...

Public Health Research on Airborne Pollution

How epidemiology, engineering, and experiment finger fine particles as airborne killers

by Jonathan Shaw

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” a favorite at weddings, is one of the most anthologized examples of...