September 1, 2010
Notes on a summer of newsprint, headlines—and coffee
August 27, 2010
A new book by Melanie Thernstrom ’87 explores chronic pain, in the author’s own life, across societies, and through history.
August 27, 2010
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow discusses what’s on her reading list, as well as the line between professional and pleasure reading, and her family’s literary history.
August 27, 2010
A new history of Design Research remembers how the store brought modern design to Harvard Square and the United States.
August 27, 2010
The latest coverage on misconduct in the psychology professor’s lab also includes an assertion by a scientific journal editor that he can only conclude that data for one retracted paper were fabricated.
August 27, 2010
Random House publishers has won a battle with literary agent Andrew Wylie over e-book rights.
August 20, 2010
The dean reports eight incidents of misconduct, and explains the faculty’s procedures for dealing with them
August 19, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education quotes an internal Harvard report it obtained from a former research assistant to psychology professor Marc Hauser.
August 18, 2010
A summer naturalist in China
August 17, 2010
This video, shot in the studio of painter George Oommen, explores Oommen’s distinctive dripping technique.
August 17, 2010
Realizing you miss college after a summer abroad
August 17, 2010
The Undergraduate, halfway through the College, finds time speeding up, in academics and in life.
August 16, 2010
Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52
August 13, 2010
In the days after the Boston Globe reported that “evidence of scientific misconduct” was found in a psychology professor’s lab, commenters urge Harvard and the scholar himself to explain.
August 11, 2010
A Cambridge summer: growing up—and not