Every time you turn around, there's another one. And the population has quadrupled in the past six months. This isn't the exponential growth of E. Coli bacteria, but the increasing numbers of science publications at Harvard in recent months.

According to Michelle Hewitt in the Dean of Students' Office, there was one science publication on campus before last spring. This year, there are four new ones.

The Harvard BRAIN sprang forth from the Undergraduate Society for Neuroscience during the spring of 1994. "Our first issue was a great success," said Fred S. Soo '96, co-chair of the society, "There's a lot of enthusiasm."

"Neuroscience is an area of interest right now," said Jennifer L. Morazes '96, staff member for the BRAIN. "It's such a big field, encompassing everything from computer science and linguistics to psychology and biology."

The Harvard-Radcliffe Mathematics Bulletin published its first issue in April of this year. Approximately 800 copies were dropped in students' mailboxes and distributed in the Science Center, said Chao-Wei Hwang '96, president of the Bulletin.

"We try to make it non-technical so that everyone can read it," Hwang said. "It talks about general math, fields of math, theorems and applications. We try to make it interesting."

The newest science publication was founded during reading period last spring. Staff members have been working over the summer to publish Caduceus, a health review.

"There are definitely lots of people interested in medicine," said Rachel Y. Chong '96, founder of Caduceus, "We started with seven. Now we have a staff of about thirty."

The Journal of Undergraduate Sciences publishes the original work of undergraduates. Many of the contributors to the first issue were, in fact, first-years at the time they did their research.

"We want to train students to do research instead of following recipes in lab," said Paul Ma, director of the Journal. "We care about education, not publishing the work of others."

"Undergraduates get into research and do some great work," said Assistant Professor of Chemistry Phillip A. Anfinrud, "but usually their projects aren't long-term enough to get published."

"We want students to have something to point to and be proud of," Anfinrud said.

"This is not an undergraduate club," Ma said, "it's a 'loose federation' that includes undergraduates, graduate students and professors."

"By its own existence, this project allows professors to talk to undergraduates in a meaningful way," Ma continued.

Before this year's rapid increase, the Harvard Science Review was he main science publication on campus, said Hewitt.