Students & Alumni
Harvard Allocating Additional $250 Million to Research
University increasing its research funding by 50 percent after grant revocations
by Max J. Krupnick
A Pediatrician Takes the Long View
David G. Nathan on watching his patients grow up and flourish
Paradise Found
The dazzling beauty and strangely human behavior of one of the world’s most diverse bird families.
by Nell Porter-Brown
New Social Entrepreneurs
Young activists live their beliefs—"every day"
by Nell Porter-Brown
Paradoxical Fables
Ben Loory's minimalist stories ambush the reader.
by David Updike
Brotherly Love
In Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.
Survival of the Cooperative
The breeding behavior of tropical cuckoos, in which unrelated adults share a communal nest, proves an exception to the theory of kin selection.
by W. Barksdale Maynard
Election 2012: Crimson in Congress
A roundup of alumni winners
Kick-Starting Harvard House Renewal
Glenn Hutchins ’77, J.D.-M.B.A. ’83, co-chair of FAS campaign, makes a $30-million gift.
Four Freedoms Park Honors FDR, Class of 1904
The New York City site is the first memorial to the president in his home state.
The Queen of Versailles
A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”
by Laura Levis