Katherine Xue

Katherine Xue ’13, from Knoxville, Tennessee, graduated with a degree in Chemical and Physical Biology and now writes full-time for Harvard Magazine. She will enter a doctoral program in genome sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, in fall 2014.
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Students |

A Harvard undergraduate spans 2000 miles in search of a small wildflower

An undergraduate spans 2,000 miles in search of a small wildflower.

Sue Minter displays the special license plate, “I Am Vermont Strong,” issued by the state in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene to raise money for the Vermont Disaster Relief Fund and the Vermont Food Bank.

Alumni | September-October 2012

Sue Minter is Vermont’s Irene Recovery Officer

Sue Minter ’83 is helping her state recover from the devastation of Hurricane Irene.

Kathy Perkins

Alumni | July-August 2012

Kathy Perkins of PhET Interactive Simulations promotes science education

Kathy Perkins ’92 fosters science education.

THUD members perform “Conchairto for Stools” at the fall 2011 concert.

Students |

Meet the Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD) percussion ensemble

Inside the world of The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD)

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2012

The Undergraduate mines life lessons from Harvard alumni reports

The Undergraduate mines alumni class reports for real-world lessons about life.

A group of Radcliffe students socialize in a common room in Moors Hall circa 1950.

Students |

Coed housing transition remembered in Pforzheimer House panel and exhibit

Remembering co-residency’s trial run

Tom Wooten and Utpal Sandesara

Alumni | March-April 2012

Gujarat dam disaster recounted in new book "No One Had a Tongue to Speak"

Utpal Sandesara and Tom Wooten uncover a dam-disaster cover-up.

Students |

A Harvard student assesses the College's Wintersession

Roads not taken during a January on campus

Views of Boston: Diverse housing…

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2012

An undergraduate explores Boston through a course about urban problems

The Undergraduate writes about "Reinventing Boston," a course that sends students out to learn about urban progress and problems through immersion in city life.

Mark Zuckerberg (backed by an image of himself when <i>really</i> young) meets with computer-science students at Farkas Hall.

University News |

Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard and MIT

The famous dropout makes recruiting calls at MIT and Harvard.

The author with some of her grade eight math students

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2011

An undergraduate travels to Namibia to participate in WorldTeach

An undergraduate travels to Namibia in the hope that, by flinging herself to a faraway place, she will figure things out.

Instead of commemorative T-shirts, an official 375th umbrella might have been a more appropriate souvenir for the evening.

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Student voices from the 375th: an anniversary gala where nothing goes as planned

At a 375th birthday party that was months in the planning, nothing goes as planned.