In preparation for finals, some students stock up on Red Bull. Others reload their Starbucks cards in anticipation of coffee-fueled nights. But for some students who sneak under the radar at Harvard, reading period entails a trip to the pharmacy or their entryway’s drug dealer.

The long-dormant organization Women in Computer Science returned to Harvard this spring.

In an effort to more rigorously teach students about the proper use of external sources, the Harvard College Writing Program now requires freshmen to submit not only a bibliography but full PDFs or photocopies of all materials cited in their final papers for Expository Writing 20.

Christopher A. Hopper ’13 rates his classes in the Q guide based on how they “make him feel.” If a ...

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For undergraduate students, the role of the teaching fellow is an important fixture of their pedagogy. And for graduate students, teaching in a classroom is a central component of their own curriculum.

University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction on Monday for his book, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.”

A group of undergraduate women have organized a campaign for the creation of a course on women in politics.

Since 2010, the computer science concentration has experienced the highest growth in undergraduate enrollment out of all departments at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—from 95 to 169 students.

Though they constitute a small minority, students who have taken this route say that, as long as a student has made the right decision on an academic field, declaring early provides distinct and unique benefits.