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  • Health

    Of medicine and ethics

    Shifts in the medical care field can allow health care providers both to prosper and to serve patients better, speaker tells Harvard Medical School conference.

  • Campus & Community

    Stanley Hoffmann, 86

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2016, the Memorial Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 13

    On April 13 the members of the Faculty Council discussed the rescission of degrees.

  • Science & Tech

    Destination: Nearest star

    Harvard Astronomy Department chair Abraham Loeb played an important role in drafting initial plans announced Tuesday for a proposed trip to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. Loeb talked about the plan and its biggest challenges.

  • Campus & Community

    A call to walk in the light

    In recognition of the Boston Marathon bombings and as part of One Boston Day, Harvard police officer and affiliated minister Kevin Bryant offered hope to the community during the University’s Morning Prayers service at Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel.

  • Campus & Community

    Final OK for Science and Engineering Complex in Allston

    Harvard University has received unanimous final approval from the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) for its planned Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston.

  • Campus & Community

    Higher education and the military

    U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus reflected on the longstanding relationship between Harvard and the Navy during an address to mark the fifth anniversary of the Navy ROTC program’s return to campus.

  • Campus & Community

    Running as tradition

    In advance of the Boston Marathon, a Harvard conference focuses on the achievements of Native Americans, long dominant in the sport.

  • Health

    Greenery plays key role in keeping women healthy, happy

    The amount of vegetation surrounding the homes of women in the United States plays an important role in their mortality rate, according to a new Harvard study.

  • Campus & Community

    Defender of urban gardens

    Doctoral student Aleksandar Shopov has helped save many of Istanbul’s green spaces, but he has even broader hopes.

  • Campus & Community

    Support for scholars

    Students and donors gathered for the Celebration of Scholarships, an annual dinner where financial aid recipients spend an evening with their benefactors.

  • Campus & Community

    Making art, making community

    A student-led art installation, conceived in response to the Report on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, goes into the Houses this week, then out for public viewing at Tercentenary Theatre later this month.

  • Nation & World

    A bleak, troubling history

    Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, will give a talk on the history of police violence in the United States.

  • Nation & World

    Lessons from a post-9/11 world

    Deborah Popowski is a Harvard Law School lecturer and human rights lawyer who has led efforts to hold psychologists accountable for their participation in torture during the war on terror.

  • Campus & Community

    New life for Memorial Church

    Immediately following Commencement, Memorial Church will close as, for the remainder of the calendar year, it undergoes renovations.

  • Science & Tech

    Research gives edge to fessing up

    New HBS research finds that avoiding sticky questions leaves a far worse impression on others than simply coming clean with unflattering answers.

  • Campus & Community

    Finding her place by helping

    Jing Qiu ’16, an economics concentrator, decided to volunteer at the Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard’s largest student organization. It changed her life.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope

    A large-scale, audio-video installation uses the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a starting point to examine the fragility of humanity. “Ah humanity!” was created by Harvard artists Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

  • Arts & Culture

    Plácido Domingo shares his secrets

    Legendary tenor and opera director Plácido Domingo will be celebrated in a conversation called “Giving Voice” on April 14 at Sanders Theatre.

  • Arts & Culture

    Real talk

    Playwright and director Ifeoma Fafunwa brings the hopes and challenges of Nigerian women to Harvard with “Hear Word!,” making its U.S. premiere at the Harvard Dance Center this weekend.

  • Arts & Culture

    The art of the moment

    Vijay Iyer, the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, gathered four friends and colleagues for “Bending Toward Justice: Improvisation, Freedom, and the Arts,” a panel discussion on how dance, music, and their improvisational tendencies influence the world.

  • Health

    For life expectancy, money matters

    A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that income is closely correlated with life expectancy, with the richest Americans living as much as 15 years longer than the poorest — and even the poor living longer in wealthy areas.

  • Campus & Community

    Alan Erickson, longtime Cabot librarian, dies at 88

    Alan Eric Erickson, longtime librarian of the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library at Harvard College, died March 23 following a brief illness; he was 88.

  • Campus & Community

    In mind and heart, never far from home

    Andrea Ortiz ’16, a Mexican immigrant who grew up in Miami, hopes to build a career that allows her to address issues of poverty, education, immigration, and crime in low-income communities in the United States.

  • Arts & Culture

    Translating nine pounds of poetry

    Sinologist Stephen Owen devoted eight years to the first complete English translation of the great Chinese poet Du Fu.

  • Science & Tech

    Gore sees progress on climate change

    Former Vice President Al Gore brought a dose of optimism about climate change to Harvard on April 7, saying the problems are severe, but the solutions are emerging.

  • Campus & Community

    Marks of distinction

    Sixty-five FAS employees from 45 departments were recognized with the annual Dean’s Distinction Awards.

  • Science & Tech

    Mixed progress cited in challenging discrimination

    The Weatherhead Center continued its series of discussions on inequality, focusing on the mixed progress of efforts to advance fairness and social inclusion. The talk touched on discrimination against the Roma people and the disabled, and the rise of inequality in an era of support for human rights.

  • Arts & Culture

    Sacred words

    Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson gave a lecture called “The Divine” at Memorial Church.

  • Health

    When picky eating is too great a luxury

    Low-income parents face an extra challenge when trying to get their kids to eat healthy: the cost of food wasted if children refuse to eat it.