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Science & Tech
Altered oceans
Proper management can bring species back from the brink and create healthier ocean ecosystems, experts said during a Center for the Environment panel.
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Campus & Community
Hailing Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Hasty Pudding Theatricals hails actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt as its 50th Man of the Year.
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Campus & Community
‘A better version of itself’
Now 175 years old, the Harvard Alumni Association is still building, as its executive director says, a “better version of itself.”
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Nation & World
Trump hasn’t lost his edge, Schieffer says
The Kennedy School hosted a talk by veteran newsman Bob Schieffer on the state of the presidential race.
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Arts & Culture
Sense of solitude
The Irish novelist Colm Tóibín will sit down with Claire Messud, a lecturer and fellow novelist, as part of the Mahindra Humanities Center’s Writers Speak series.
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Campus & Community
Ups and downs at Harvard Stadium
“Good morning!” barks a scarf-wrapped runner in tights, peering through the darkness as she climbs the steps into cavernous Harvard Stadium. A woman nearby responds, “Oh, Hallie, how are you?…
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Arts & Culture
‘Pneuma(tic) Bodies’ at Carpenter Center
Sculptures and drawings are part of “Pneuma(tic) Bodies,” which opens today at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with a 6 p.m. dance performance featuring Jill Johnson.
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Health
Alzheimer’s insights in single cells
A study of plaque production at single-cell level holds promise to help improve Alzheimer’s treatment.
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Campus & Community
Professor shares expertise on life’s contracts
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried drew from his HarvardX course, “Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract,” at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of its
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Arts & Culture
Breaking bonds of time
“Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” a special exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, makes room for different perspectives.
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Campus & Community
Lowe selected for National Council on the Humanities
Shelly C. Lowe, the executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program and a leading advocate for Native Americans in higher education, has been confirmed by the United States Senate and appointed by President Obama to join the National Council on the Humanities.
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Science & Tech
Making use of the head
Blue-banded bees bent on pollination bang their heads against tomato plants at a rate of 350 times per second, a Harvard researcher found.
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Campus & Community
Support for a diverse student body
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave its support Tuesday to a report that backs a diverse student body with deep interaction.
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Health
New drug target for Rett syndrome
Rett syndrome is a relatively common neurodevelopmental disorder, the second most common cause of intellectual disability in girls after Down syndrome. Building on 2004 findings, Harvard researchers identified a faulty signaling pathway that, when corrected in mice, improves the symptoms of Rett syndrome.
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Campus & Community
Cooperation is key to Dudley Co-op
Harvard students opt for a different House experience when they move into the Dudley Co-op.
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Arts & Culture
O’Neal, MacGraw revisit youthful ‘Love’
Actors Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal returned to Harvard to revisit the scene of their iconic movie “Love Story.”
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Campus & Community
Architect Frank Gehry to receive Harvard Arts Medal
Award-winning architect Frank Gehry, Ar.D. ’00, is the recipient of the 2016 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust at a ceremony on April 28 at 4 p.m. at Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke St., Cambridge.
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Science & Tech
Plants with biosensors may light the way
A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School has developed a new method for engineering a broad range of biosensors to detect and signal virtually any desired molecule using living eukaryotic cells. Its applications could range from detecting hormones to benefiting agriculture.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t
Inequality is rampant in American life and is a key topic in the presidential campaign, but Harvard faculty members have been exploring its many facets for decades, and suggesting some solutions.
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Campus & Community
Harvard project to track personal data wins Knight News Challenge award
All the Places Personal Data Goes, based out of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, was one of 17 recipients of a Knight News Challenge award. The group was awarded $440,000.
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Health
Topical treatment on hand for liver spots
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers are working on a topical treatment that may be available for those with seborrheic keratosis (SK), or liver spots. SKs vary in color from tan to black, can be flat or raised, and range in size from quite small to an inch or more across.
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Nation & World
Lessons in learning
At the Global Education Conference, HGSE students presented papers on how to improve educational opportunity around the world.
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Science & Tech
How, not why, the human brain folds
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, collaborating with scientists in Finland and France, have shown what ultimately causes the brain to fold — a simple mechanical instability associated with buckling.
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Arts & Culture
Light beyond violence
Harvard Divinity School Professor Matthew Potts probes religious themes in novels of Cormac McCarthy
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Arts & Culture
Hate draws a forceful response
The documentary “Waking in Oak Creek” was the final installment of the Religion Refocused series, sponsored by the Pluralism Project at Harvard. The screening was aimed at bringing the conversation around the incident to Cambridge, as was a panel discussion afterward.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2016-17
In accordance with University policy, Harvard University Housing charges market rents. To establish the proposed rents for 2016-17, Jayendu Patel of Economic, Financial & Statistical Consulting Services performed and endorsed the results of a regression analysis on three years of market rents for more than 4,400 apartments.
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Campus & Community
Warm welcome for Washington
For the 66th year, Hasty Pudding Theatricals named a Woman of the Year, and this time, there was some scandal in the air.
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Science & Tech
New World devastation
A new study led by Harvard’s Matthew Liebmann examines the health and ecological consequences of European colonists’ contact with Native Americans.
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Campus & Community
New dean finds strong foundation at HKS
Douglas Elmendorf, the new dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, talks about his return to academia and weighs in on where HKS is headed.
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Campus & Community
The way of the sword
During Wintersession 2016, the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club offered a three-day kendo crash course called “Introduction to Japanese Sword Fighting.”
