November-December 2006

Summing Up Summers The article on, and interview with, Lawrence Summers (Summers in Summary, September-October, page 56) should be required…

Beauty is Natures coin, John Milton wrote in 1634. It is currency in todays labor market as well. Since 1994, numerous studies have found that…

Each night that it has run since its April launch, the 72-inch optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, has…

Education researchers and policymakers, like the rest of us, have long known that a good teacher can make all the difference to a childs…

These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer…

The singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor was artist-in-residence in Lowell House from 2000 through September, participating in House life and…

From an entry in The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, $16.95), containing all the schemes, scams, and dirty tricks used to achieve victory since…

At nightfall, the hyenas began to cry and laugh after we had eaten and were enjoying our recent successes in the art of nonfiction filmmaking…

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, by A.J. Langguth 55 (Simon & Schuster, $30). This gripping history of…

Martha Neumann hopes to learn if Freud indeed made a comment often attributed to him: Immortality is being loved by many anonymous people. Ann…

Several years ago, a journalist at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow whispered a pitch for what he thought an explosive story: that Harvard gave…

In high school, Philip Aaberg 71 took train voyages lasting 12 hours each way between his hometown of Chester, Montana, and Spokane to study…

Tucked into a single room behind a window in Harvard Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is to the world of bookselling what La Sainte…

Since its founding, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has commissioned artists to depict explorations of the upper…

Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this winter, from German folk dancing, Christmas carols, and a Da de los Muertos…

Textile mills reinvent themselves as airy, exposed-brick shopping malls. Auto showrooms metamorphose into art galleries and old schoolhouses…

From European spices and fine French fare to free-range beef and elderberry wine, Harvard alumni throughout New England are asserting their…

Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) amounts to more than 140 billion gallonsclose to 500…

The social status of physicians rose in the eighteenth century as their understanding of disease grew apace. But effective new treatments or…

Those whove heard of Zane Grey usually identify him as the author of best-selling westerns, but few realize that he was the commercially most…

Take your geographic information system (GIS) for a spin around the block. Its easy. Sit at your computer, which you have loaded with GIS…

Three days before Harvards launch of the Center for Geographic Analysis, National Geographic News released the results of a survey of geographic…

One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility. To whom or what does he hold himself…

Adam Kirsch, in New York, interviewed Seamus Heaney, in Ireland, by fax in mid September. Kirsch: When I was a student in one of your…

Yesterdays News Harvard Portrait Interim Agendas An Allston Metamorphosis? Adios, Early Admissions Money-Management Makeover Controversial…

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has begun a effort to encourage innovative, effective teaching. A committee of nine senior professors…

Harvard Business School (HBS) classes are taught interactivelyby the case methodand by the professors themselves, who also do the grading…

1911 Witter Bynner 02 writes the Bulletin to protest Harvards refusal to allow Emmeline Pankhurst to address the Harvard Mens League for Woman…

Although Derek Bok and Jeremy R. Knowles are serving as president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), respectively, on an…

Harvards first science complex in Allston will be big by any measure. One thousand people will work in a facility designed as four buildings…

Harvard College has ended its early admissions deadline. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students applying for admission to the class of 2012…

The value of Harvards endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.7 percent…

Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy…

When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly became much bigger. The genomethree billion DNA letters long…

Nobel NotablesTwo alumni have won Nobel Prizes in science. Roger D. Kornberg 67, JF 76, Winzer professor in medicine at Stanford University…

Women are underrepresented in academic science and engineering, according to a report issued in September by the National Academies, not because…

Before telegrams became scarce, the Japanese artist On Kawara would send them with the message I AM STILL ALIVE. Normally he would sign them…

Her mother says that Lindsey Scherf 08 was running as soon as she could walk; she might almost have sprinted out of the womb. Given her current…

Tracks are fairly level, but cross-country running demands mastery of hills, which offer a natural form of interval trainingalternating intense…

Jason Saretsky, Harvards new head coach of cross country and track and field (he succeeds Frank Haggerty 68, who retired in June), competed as a…

Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14…

Mens Soccer The Crimson (6-4, 1-1 Ivy) came back twice to beat Yale, 3-2, in a crucial rebound from losses to Penn (3-1) and Rhode Island (4-1)…

In a darkened alley next to the Cleveland Public Theatre, the crowd stares up at a sprite in white suspended from two rings high above the…

The Alumni College programs, run by the Harvard Alumni Association, range from day-long symposia to two-hour workshops and cover an array of…

The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni…

Several college programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning…

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." From the moment they first spoke in Cambridge, in February…

George Pierce Baker had been teaching playwriting in English 47 when he had an epiphany: No critical comment from a professor could possibly be…