Faculty & Research
Can Multivitamins Reduce Cancer Risk and Slow Memory Loss?
The scientific evidence on vitamin supplements and age-related health decline
by Olivia Farrar
“He Found Himself at a Loss”
MGH program for caregivers began with a famed cardiologist’s firsthand experience.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
A More Generous, Capacious America
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
by Christoph Irmscher
Where the Grass Is Greener
Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research
by Jonathan Shaw
Caring for the Caregivers
What it's like to look after a loved one with dementia
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Immunity Engineer
Teaching T-cells to kill cancer—and other feats of biomedical science
by Veronique Greenwood
Barbara Lawrence
Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997
by Jonathan Shaw
Focus on Finances
Annual Harvard financial results, and a look at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ fisc and professoriate
by Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
News in Brief
Nobel honorands, institutional voice, civil discourse, Rhodes Scholars, and more