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  • Arts & Culture

    Making magic out of 26 letters

    Harvard’s creative writing program is growing in creativity and size.

  • Health

    Spotting speedy brain activity

    Using ultra-fast MRI scans, scientists are able to track rapid oscillations in brain activity that previously would have gone undetected, a development that could open the door to understanding fast-occurring cognitive processes that once appeared off-limits to scientists.

  • Health

    Love interrupted

    A new study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center examines the neuroanatomy behind delusional misidentification syndromes.

  • Health

    Topical treatment clears precancerous skin lesions

    Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found a topical chemotherapy and an immune-system-activating compound that is able to rapidly clear actinic keratosis lesions from patients participating in a clinical trial.

  • Arts & Culture

    In ‘Fingersmith,’ lead role for lighting

    Lighting designer Jen Schriever talks about her vision for the A.R.T.’s adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel “Fingersmith.”

  • Campus & Community

    Delving into ‘belonging’ at Harvard

    The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, created by President Drew Faust in September, is gathering information through listening sessions and has started subcommittees to examine how to build on Harvard’s commitment to campus diversity and be a university where all feel they belong.

  • Science & Tech

    Diamonds are a lab’s best friend

    Using the atomic-scale quantum defects in diamonds known as nitrogen-vacancy centers to detect the magnetic field generated by neural signals, scientists working in the lab of Ronald Walsworth, a faculty member in Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Physics Department, demonstrated a noninvasive technique that can show the activity of neurons.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘I’m very lucky to represent’ Harvard

    Tommy Amaker reflects on becoming the Crimson’s winningest men’s basketball coach after his 179th win.

  • Arts & Culture

    Forever bringing joy

    Professor Alex Rehding talks about his research for a book on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

  • Campus & Community

    Rhodes and Marshall scholars

    At this time of year, most Harvard seniors are worrying about job interviews or graduate school applications, but not Dhruva Bhat and Julius Bright Ross. The two seniors will spend the next two years studying in the United Kingdom, Bhat as a Rhodes Scholar and Ross as a Marshall Scholar.

  • Science & Tech

    The world’s tiniest radio

    Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world’s smallest radio receiver, built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Yard to Boston City Hall

    Jackie Lender ’16, who is the first Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, shares her experience.

  • Science & Tech

    The duo who upended intuition

    On a visit to Harvard, best-selling author Michael Lewis talked about the deep friendship and pioneering collaboration of famed psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose work created the field of behavioral economics.

  • Health

    Better days for Boston cyclists

    Boston has become a safer place for bicyclists as it has improved its infrastructure, a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health says, with the chances of being injured in a bicycle accident falling 14 percent a year between 2009 and 2012.

  • Nation & World

    Inside the hacked U.S. election

    Kevin Ryan, a Russia-U.S. security analyst and Belfer Center director of defense and intelligence projects, discusses the conclusion by U.S. intelligence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and did so in an effort to boost the Republicans.

  • Science & Tech

    The climate change threat to food

    Four experts gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a panel concerning the impact of climate change on agriculture and the global food system, with an emphasis on the United States and Africa, and a nod toward what the incoming Trump administration might do about the issue.

  • Campus & Community

    Thomas Schelling, Nobelist and game theory pioneer, 95

    Thomas C. Schelling, a major figure in shaping the modern Harvard Kennedy School and a 2005 Nobel Prize winner in economics, died at 95.

  • Health

    Longer use of pain relievers tied to hearing loss in women

    A Harvard study has found that women who used ibuprofen or acetaminophen for six years or more were at higher risk of hearing loss than those who used these medications for a year or less.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard students, meet the Stone Age

    Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.

  • Campus & Community

    Seeing Harvard at dawn

    In the morning hours before classes start, the Harvard community prepares for the day ahead.

  • Campus & Community

    938 admitted early to College Class of 2021

    Harvard admissions officials say 938 students have been admitted early to the College to the Class of 2021, as early action thrives as a “new normal” for undergraduate admissions.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard joins American Talent Initiative

    Harvard has joined the American Talent Initiative, a coalition of colleges and universities that seeks to attract, enroll, and graduate high-achieving, lower-income students.

  • Arts & Culture

    The potter’s magic fingers

    Native American potters offer hands-on insights into centuries-year-old artistry.

  • Arts & Culture

    A new holiday song cycle

    The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society premiered Paul Moravec’s composition at a holiday concert.

  • Campus & Community

    The ways Boston changed

    Students enrolled in the course “Reinventing (and Reimagining) Boston: The Changing American City” examine the city and the many changes it has undergone in recent decades.

  • Science & Tech

    Mitigating the risk of geoengineering

    To halt the rise of global temperatures, Harvard researchers are looking at solar geoengineering, which would inject light-reflecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to cool the planet.

  • Arts & Culture

    Urgent message on ghetto life

    Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby talks about his new book, “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.”

  • Arts & Culture

    The everyday response to racism

    When someone makes a racially charged comment or joke, how would you respond? Research led by Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont says your answer may very well depend on the group to which you belong.

  • Campus & Community

    Putting their faith into action

    Two comparative study of religion concentrators tell what drew them to their field, and how they plan to use their lessons to make a difference.

  • Campus & Community

    10 Named Schwarzman Fellows

    Ten Harvard students and alumni have been selected to attend Tsinghua University in Beijing as Schwarzman Scholars.