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Why Harvard Needs International Students

An ed school professor on why global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Christopher Gore

In this spot stood Gore Hall...Built in the year 1838...Named in honor of Christopher Gore...Fellow of the...

Mosquitoes and ticks carry diseases, sometimes with devastating economic effects

Andew Spielman studies diseases carried by blood-sucking insects, and their adaptations to life with their human hosts.

by Jonathan Shaw

Ups and Downs with Harvard

Although we are all assembled at this gathering because we have been 25 years at Harvard, today I am privately celebrating 53 years of...

The California Meltdown

  by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its approach to the...

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...

The Dow of Professional Sports

Traditionally, the best tickets put you nearest the action, but here in the skybox, we look down, as if from an aerie, on the baseball game...

by Craig Lambert

The "Great Good Place"

Harvard University hadn't been my first choice for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had...

Human origins driven by technological and cultural revolutions

Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.

by Jonathan Shaw

Neil L. Rudenstine president Harvard

Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the higher-education universe were very far from their current robust...

by John S. Rosenberg

A Life with Lycaenids

At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial arthropods, Naomi Pierce was expected to dissect a cockroach. Not the familiar kind we...