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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Increasingly Electronic Libraries
From 1998 through 2005, University library holdings increased by 1.62 million volumes—11.6 percent. But during the same period, the number...
Adios, Early Admissions
Harvard College has ended its early admissions deadline. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students applying for admission to the class of 2012...
Controversial Visitor
Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy...
Bigger Biology
When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly became much bigger. The genomethree billion DNA letters long...
Brevia
Nobel NotablesTwo alumni have won Nobel Prizes in science. Roger D. Kornberg ’67, JF ’76, Winzer professor in medicine at Stanford University...
Sciences and Gender
Women are underrepresented in academic science and engineering, according to a report issued in September by the National Academies, not because...
Open for Business
Before telegrams became scarce, the Japanese artist On Kawara would send them with the message I AM STILL ALIVE. Normally he would sign them...
by Casey N. Cep
Fleet Policy
Her mother says that Lindsey Scherf 08 was running as soon as she could walk; she might almost have sprinted out of the womb. Given her current...
How to Handle Hills
Tracks are fairly level, but cross-country running demands mastery of hills, which offer a natural form of interval trainingalternating intense...
Skipper with a Stopwatch
Jason Saretsky, Harvards new head coach of cross country and track and field (he succeeds Frank Haggerty 68, who retired in June), competed as a...