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  • Campus & Community

    Twenty team finalists named in Deans’ Challenges

    Harvard University announced 20 student-led teams on Monday as finalists in four Deans’ Challenges focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, the food system, and innovation in sports.

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson holds off Brown, 72-62, shares Ivy title

    The Harvard men’s basketball team did its part with a 72-62 win over Brown Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion and Dartmouth returned the favor, upsetting Yale 59-58 to give the Crimson a share of the Ivy League championship and force a one-game playoff to decide the Ancient Eight’s bid to the NCAA tournament.

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s basketball suffers setback to Yale, 62-52

    Steve Moundou-Missi posted a double-double, scoring 21 points and grabbing 10 rebounds, but the Harvard men’s basketball team fell to Yale in front of a sold-out Lavietes Pavilion crowd Friday evening, 62-52.

  • Campus & Community

    Remembering, and returning to, Selma

    Harvard President Drew Faust delivered Morning Prayers on Friday, offering those gathered in Appleton Chapel for the solemn service a deeply personal reflection on her experience with the Civil Rights Movement 50 years ago.

  • Campus & Community

    Making the most of meals

    Harvard University recently launched an effort to address chronic hunger among its neighbors in Cambridge and Boston by partnering with the local nonprofit Food for Free to donate nearly 2,000 nutritious meals each week to families in need.

  • Campus & Community

    Crowd of Fulbrights

    For the second year in a row, Harvard is the leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, with 34 students ― 22 from the College, 12 in total from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, Graduate School of Design, and Graduate School of Education — receiving the prestigious grants.

  • Health

    Ebola: A long way from over

    The Ebola epidemic is waning, but experts at a Harvard Medical School conference said the fight against the disease should be carried on until the last patient is cured, until more is known about the virus, and until local health care systems are robust enough to withstand another outbreak.

  • Campus & Community

    Into the finals

    Ten student teams have been named finalists for the 2015 President’s Challenge, Harvard President Drew Faust announced.

  • Health

    Putting health in context

    Panelists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examined social disparities that make some people more likely to end up sick than others.

  • Arts & Culture

    A literary colossus

    The new Murty Classical Library of India from Harvard University Press, aiming for 500 volumes over the next century, will reveal to the world a “colossal Indian past” of multilanguage literary history from as far back as two millennia.

  • Nation & World

    After Ferguson, the ripples across Harvard

    Students across Harvard channel energy and anger from last semester’s “Black Lives Matter” protests into a call for discussions and changes at home.

  • Campus & Community

    Ice capades

    The Harvard men’s and women’s hockey teams closed out exciting regular seasons, and head for the playoffs.

  • Health

    March mammal madness

    An assistant professor of evolutionary biology, Katie Hinde is also the creator of Mammal March Madness, a tournament that emulates the college basketball playoffs and pits species against each other in simulated combat.

  • Science & Tech

    Focus on food

    Twenty-two faculty members presented seven-minute lightning lectures on research and realities involving food.

  • Health

    Possible progress against Parkinson’s

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at McLean Hospital have taken what they describe as an important step toward using the implantation of stem cell-generated neurons as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

  • Nation & World

    Again, Obamacare under siege

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor John McDonough looks at the latest Supreme Court challenge to Obama’s signature health care reform law, being argued in court this week.

  • Arts & Culture

    The spectacle of Ghungroo

    The Harvard South Asian Association’s annual arts showcase, called Ghungroo, is a complex coordinated production that draws hundreds of student performers and delighted classmates in the audience.

  • Science & Tech

    Stages of design

    Three exhibits at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall represent different facets of how design learning gets done.

  • Health

    A new stem cell advance

    Collaborating with scientists elsewhere, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have devised two methods for using stem cells to generate the type of neurons that help regulate behavioral and basic physiological functions in the human body, such as obesity and hypertension, sleep, mood, and some social disorders.

  • Nation & World

    Evil in the making

    Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan spoke with the Gazette about his new book, “The Killing Compartments,” ahead of a lecture at the Center for European Studies.

  • Health

    Tuning in on brain waves

    Researchers have identified a group of neurons in the brain. The role of this cell type, in a region of the brain important for “waking up the cortex,” had not been previously identified. It may suggest potential therapies for disorders like schizophrenia.

  • Campus & Community

    Learning on the fly

    First-generation students bring lessons to Harvard ― of resilience, perseverance, and of talent’s universality.

  • Health

    An opening for measles

    In the wake of the recent measles outbreak, a panel of experts convened at Harvard Law School to discuss the ethical, legal, and public health issues around vaccination.

  • Campus & Community

    New director for Villa I Tatti

    Harvard art and architecture history professor Alina Payne has been named the director of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy.

  • Nation & World

    Tough days for MBTA

    Jose Gomez-Ibanez, a transportation and infrastructure policy expert at Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, talks about the political and financial hurdles to smoothly running public transit systems.

  • Arts & Culture

    The rule-breaking Sisters Grimke

    “Exiled by the sound of the lash” from the slaveholding state of South Carolina, the Grimké sisters came North before the Civil War with rule-breaking ideas on slavery’s wrongs and women’s rights. They represented an antebellum moment in which “women became political.”

  • Nation & World

    Making sense of Congress

    A pair of Harvard seniors, aided by Harvard’s innovation environment, have launched a company that helps people make sense of Congress by gathering in one place diverse information on representatives, districts, bills, and legislative proceedings.

  • Health

    Perception of food consumption overrides reality

    Targeting mechanisms in the central nervous system might yield the beneficial effects of low-calorie diets on healthy aging without the need to alter food intake, suggests new research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 25

    On Feb. 25, the Faculty Council approved a concentration in Theater, Dance, and Media. They also discussed a conflict of interest policy for centers and course scheduling.

  • Nation & World

    The teetering Greece

    With talk of austerity and bailout terms as the backdrop, experts gathered at the Center for European Studies to discuss the Greek debt crisis in depth. They were not optimistic that a solution is near.