It's Too Early To Think About Finals!

If you're ready to start fantasizing about finals period, now you have your chance. The finals schedule is online. Here's ...

Nobel Laureate Retracts Two Academic Papers

Nobel laureate Linda B. Buck, a former professor at Harvard Medical School, retracted on Friday two academic papers about olfactory receptors.

Gen Ed Ethics Classes Attract Crowds

Several Ethical Reasoning classes have proven surprisingly popular this semester.

Harvard Computer Science Expects Faculty Retirements

The faculty members affiliated with Harvard Computer Science are poised to face a wave of retirement over the next few years.

Reminder: Add/Drop Deadline (Without a Fee) Is Today

If you still haven’t made up your mind on which classes to take, keep in mind that the deadline to add or drop a course without paying a fee is today.

New Fund Sparks Controversy in Social Studies

The Social Studies department plans to honor former Harvard Professor Martin “Marty” H. Peretz through the launching of an undergraduate ...

CS50 Enrollment Increases by Nearly 200 Students

Enrollment in the introductory class Computer Science 50 jumped 56 percent from last year—from 337 students last fall to 525 this year. These enrollment numbers place CS50 as the fourth largest undergraduate class offered at the College.

Students Talk about Science and Cooking Course

Study cards are in, but the rave about Science of the Physical Universe 27: Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine ...

Last-Minute Shopping

If you’re like some of us here at Flyby, you may have extended your Labor Day weekend a little too far—both before and after. But even if you managed to skip all of Shopping Period until today, you definitely still have some options (and time) to fill up your study card.

Several freshmen stargaze by the telescopes on the roof of the Science Center yesterday evening as Allyson Bieryla, Astronomy Lab and Telescope Manager, points out salient celestial objects. The telescopes and roof were opened to promote the General Education course SPU21: Stellar Measures of the Universe.

Four students travel the globe to try out the life of the professional artist

The Coolest Course Titles

For the transcript-conscious, try distracting recruiters and grad-school admission boards from those sub-par grades with these flashy titles. We recount this semester’s “coolest-sounding course titles” for those looking for the right mix of pretention and PR on the part of professors.

Science of Cooking Proves To Be ‘Haute’ Draw for Undergraduates

Students lined the stairs and poured out of the double doors of a Science Center Hall yesterday, as Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics Professor Michael P. Brenner debuted the new course "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter."

Today in Photos (09/02/10)

Photographs from the September 2, 2010 print edition of The Harvard Crimson.

First Day of School

Students make their way across a sunny Tercentenary Theater Wednesday afternoon on the first day of shopping period.

Founding Director of the Program in Speaking and Learning Rebekah Maggor coaches a student in a vocal exercise. Maggor oversaw the Speaking Tutors program, created the “Public Speaking Practicum” class Expository Writing 40, and helped instructors incorporate speaking into classes.

What Do You Think Of Adam Wheeler’s Deception?

The Crimson's roving reporter took to the streets to see what people thought of former Harvard student Adam B. Wheeler's unveiling as a fraud who lied his way into college.

Will Speech Fade?

Ever since Rebekah Maggor came to Harvard in 2004 to help international students with classroom communication, she has been expanding the public speaking resources available to the Harvard community.