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Inventing Isabella An air of mystery surrounded Isabella Stewart Gardner. She had a reputation for defying expectations for her gender and class—she dared to be […]
The Interview: The ‘Quin House Cofounder Sandy Edgerley
Sandy Edgerley used to spend a lot of time at Clarendon Street Playground in the Back Bay, making connections with other moms as she watched […]
The Case of the Vanishing Harvard Dorm Crew
My first taste of the so-called Harvard experience occurred the week before school started. I stood in a line of fellow giddy 18-year-olds who, at […]
Massachusetts Still Has the Best Engineering Grad School in the Country
From Harvard, we’ve come to expect spots near the tippy-top in lists of the best colleges. But while the celebrated university is still in exclusive […]
Avi Loeb Is Not Afraid of Little Green Men
I was sitting on the porch of Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s stately home in Lexington this summer, as cardinals flitted among his roses and hydrangeas, […]
The Two Best Universities in the World Are Still in Boston, the Latest Rankings Say
Want your college experience to include license to shout from the Ivy draped rooftops We’re the best in the whole wide world! (or even We’re […]
The Top Colleges in Massachusetts, According to the 2022 U.S. News and World Report Rankings
Colleges are not yet fully back to normal—the delta variant has made sure of that. But college students are indeed headed back to the classroom […]
Sure Hope This Snowpiercer-Esque Harvard Project Doesn’t End Up like the Movie
To kick off 2021, a team of Harvard scientists is celebrating the fact that it’s taking the first steps toward a bold and potentially game-changing […]
The Interview: Harvard Basketball Coach Tommy Amaker
Bostonians likely first heard about Tommy Amaker as an All-American guard at top-ranked Duke University—where 30-plus years ago he played under the legendary Mike Krzyzewski. […]
Where Massachusetts Colleges Placed in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Picking a college is tough in a good year, when going off to college at the very least means fully enjoying the undergrad experience in […]
Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?
In January, as she watched the news about a novel virus spreading out of control in China, Alina Chan braced for a shutdown. The molecular […]
Would You Take Weekly COVID Tests to Go to College?
Just picture it: You’re a bright-eyed college freshman, showing up at one of the Boston area’s elite academic institutions and enjoying the enormous boost at […]
City of Spies
Charles Lieber had a brilliant mind. So it was widely assumed, at least among the rarified upper echelons of the scientific community, that there would […]
A River Runs Through Us: Boston vs. Cambridge
Edited by Brittany Jasnoff Read a note from Editor Chris Vogel about the April issue of Boston magazine here. When was the last time you […]
The Indicted Harvard Professor’s Other Double Life: Pumpkins
Until about a week ago, Harvard professor Charlie Lieber was best known as chair of the university’s prestigious chemistry and chemical biology department and for […]