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  • Campus & Community

    Arts First, and at center

    Arts First, Harvard’s spring weekend festival, embraces creativity, audience participation.

  • Health

    Insight into seeing

    Harvard-affiliated researchers have been able to make a comparison of neurons in optic nerves to learn more about why some regenerate and others don’t.

  • Science & Tech

    Benefits of Clean Power Plan are clear

    States will gain large, widespread, and nearly immediate health benefits if the Environmental Protection Agency sets strong standards in the final Clean Power Plan, according to the first independent, peer-reviewed paper of its kind, published May 4 in the journal Nature Climate Change.

  • Nation & World

    Justice, pursued

    Harvard experts discuss how institutional policing strategies, practices, and culture contribute to the distrust between law enforcement and black citizens in many American cities, including Baltimore.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision’

    Gloria Hong ’15 won the Grand Jury Prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival for her short documentary, “Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision” The film was made while Hong was enrolled in “African and African American Studies 109,” taught by Joanna Lipper.

  • Campus & Community

    Charles Preston Whitlock service held

    Former Harvard College Dean Charles Preston Whitlock died on April 27 after a brief illness. He was 95. A memorial service will be held May 2.

  • Arts & Culture

    Picturing Harvard’s past

    An exhibit at Pusey Library demonstrates how the first Harvard class photograph albums evolved. In the antebellum 19th century, photography was young, image technologies were changing fast (often with Boston practitioners in the lead), and Harvard students began adding the visual to the repositories of memory that for centuries had been dominated by text.

  • Health

    Rapid evolution

    As part of the Harvard Horizons Symposium, Ph.D. candidate Shane Campbell-Staton will discuss his work with the green anole lizard, which corroborates the fact that rapid evolutionary responses can be viewed in real time.

  • Arts & Culture

    One-of-a-kind performer

    Damian Woetzel was honored with the Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony Thursday at Farkas Hall.

  • Nation & World

    Nigeria at the crossroads

    Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka told a Harvard audience on Wednesday that ruthless Islamist religious fundamentalism is “the enemy of humanity.”

  • Nation & World

    Drilling down on corruption

    As he concludes a five-year lab study on institutional corruption, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, departing as head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, reflects on the lessons learned, and the challenges that remain.

  • Health

    A home fit for a king

    State wildlife biologists installed a peregrine falcon nesting platform high on Memorial Hall’s tower.

  • Science & Tech

    Deans’ Challenges winners

    Five student-led teams at Harvard were named winners in the third annual Deans’ Challenges, focusing on health and life sciences, cultural entrepreneurship, the food system, and innovation in sports.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 29

    On April 29 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2015-16 and Courses of Instruction for 2015-16.

  • Campus & Community

    Long hitting the high notes

    Harvard’s Lowell House Opera is the longest continually performing opera company in New England.

  • Campus & Community

    Welcoming Harvard’s next class

    A freshman returns to Visitas, the annual weekend focused on incoming Harvard College students, and views their weekend through fresh eyes.

  • Arts & Culture

    A vivid life

    The life and art of Mark Rothko are examined in the new play “Red,” to be performed at Harvard Art Museums.

  • Science & Tech

    Redesigning design contests

    A Harvard conference on design competitions — which can be creative, ubiquitous, and troubling — lays out the present controversies surrounding them, and some solutions.

  • Campus & Community

    A call for ideas

    Awards given after New Venture Competition celebrate entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

  • Arts & Culture

    How to recast antiquity

    With help from a Harvard grant and a class on the ancient Near East, Harvard students are re-creating casts of Mesopotamian masterpieces.

  • Work & Economy

    ‘I had this extraordinary sense of liberation’

    Interview with Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School as part of the Experience series.

  • Campus & Community

    Claudine Gay named dean of social science

    Claudine Gay, a Harvard professor of government and African and African American Studies, and a distinguished scholar of mass political behavior, has been appointed dean of social science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

  • Campus & Community

    Seven graduate students awarded prestigious fellowships

    Seven students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were awarded Fulbright Fellowships earlier this week. The scholars’ research will take them across the globe — to Africa, Asia, and Europe.

  • Arts & Culture

    At the heart of ‘Mad Men’

    Matthew Weiner, creator of “Mad Men,” talked about his development as a writer and the show’s beginnings in a conversation with Harvard’s Bret Anthony Johnston on Monday at Sever Hall.

  • Nation & World

    Understanding Turkey

    Turkey appears to be moving away from the path toward reforms that helped to fuel an economic resurgence there in the early 2000s, a leading economist told a Harvard audience.

  • Nation & World

    ‘I felt as if I was on a boat at sea’

    Renee Salas, a Wilderness Medicine Fellow from Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School instructor in emergency medicine, was working at a remote clinic near the Mount Everest Base Camp when Saturday’s earthquake struck Nepal. She shared her experience with the Gazette.

  • Nation & World

    After Nepal quake, Harvard responds

    With Nepal struggling to grasp the enormous calamity caused by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck north of Kathmandu Saturday, Harvard is mobilizing to help with technical and medical assistance and reaching out to faculty, staff, and students visiting the region.

  • Science & Tech

    The fast-firing universe

    Nobel laureate and astrophysicist Brian Schmidt returns to Harvard this week to deliver the Morris Loeb and David M. Lee Lectures in Physics. Schmidt will discuss his discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, as well as the SkyMapper survey of the southern skies and the first stars that emerged after the universe’s…

  • Nation & World

    Not backing down

    Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about his country’s economic and political difficulties, during the first stop of his state visit to the United States.

  • Science & Tech

    Women in sciences

    A group called Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering just celebrated a decade of fellowship in those fields.