Students & Alumni
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
Stay Connected
Meet Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller.
by Nell Porter-Brown
First-Generation Challenges
A Shared Interest Group aims to support undergraduates whose parents didn't attend a four-year college.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Harvard Portrait: David Jones
David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.
Architecture in Concert
William Rawn’s designs begin not with the eye, but the ear.
by Craig Lambert
![Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: “Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.”](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_teaser_wide/public/img/article/0812/vitaso12.jpg.webp?itok=tnyZNn-N "Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library")
Vita: Warren Brookes
Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991
by Charles G. Kels
Off the Shelf
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
Fiction in Counterpoint
A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score
by Craig Lambert
Zakaria Penalized for Plagiarism…and Reinstated
The 2012 Commencement speaker used excerpts from a Harvard professor’s New Yorker article.
Harvard Olympic Athletes in London
Nine athletes and a coach with Harvard ties will represent five countries at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Classes
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