All four members of the Jasanoff family—Jay, Sheila, Maya, and Alan—graduated from Harvard, and now three are professors here.

Elizabeth Warren is a leading contender for the new agency whose creation she espoused, but no nomination has yet been made.

The Lab: Creativity and Culture sets forth a vision of multidisciplinary innovation.

The literary agent’s plan to produce e-books and sell them via amazon.com causes a stir in the publishing world.

Edward Kohn ’90, a historian at Bilkent University, shows how the crisis influenced the political careers of Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan.

Harvard basketball star Jeremy Lin ’10 has signed with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors.

If confirmed, the current deputy secretary of state will face a $1.6 trillion deficit.

An unusual symposium at Harvard and at James’s summer residence this August will remember the life of the psychologist-philosopher.

Betty Breck ’60, whose fiftieth Harvard reunion was also her first, was randomly selected to win an iPod Touch.

See a slide show documenting the remaking of Harvard’s central art museum.

A titan arum waxes and wanes.

An exotic Indonesian plant may well bloom into a flower more than six feet tall in the next few days.