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  • Campus & Community

    A new lesson plan

    HGSE is launching a new teacher fellows program, giving undergraduates a pathway to teaching careers.

  • Arts & Culture

    Foreshadowing feminism

    Organizing and canvassing for anti-slavery petitions by women from 1833 to 1845 was a transformational training ground for suffragettes and other social activists following the Civil War.

  • Science & Tech

    Online hub for social science

    The Digital Lab for the Social Sciences is designed to serve as an online clearinghouse where social scientists can find study participants.

  • Nation & World

    McCawley combats homelessness

    Andrew McCawley, president and CEO of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, describes the steps the organization is taking to combat homelessness among U.S. veterans and how likely it is that the nation will see the complete eradication of veteran homelessness by 2016.

  • Nation & World

    HLS legal clinic lands victories for veterans

    Since its founding in 2012 by Clinical Professor of Law Daniel Nagin, more than 30 HLS students taking part in the Veterans Legal Clinic have represented more than 100 clients in the areas of federal and state veterans’ benefits, discharge upgrades, and estate planning.

  • Campus & Community

    Students first

    Keeping with its mission as a new type of teaching and learning museum, on Thursday evening the Harvard Art Museums welcomed its first visitors: University students.

  • Nation & World

    Undermining intelligence

    Social psychologist and author Claude Steele talks about how negative stereotypes about a social group’s intellectual abilities can trigger anxiety and cognitive difficulties in those who identify with that group, leading to chronic underperformance.

  • Nation & World

    From divestment to engagement

    Investment experts at Harvard Business School explored alternatives for investors interested in climate change, from divestment to engagement, as ways to change corporate behavior.

  • Campus & Community

    Eric Greitens wins Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award

    The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has named humanitarian Eric Greitens, founder and former CEO of The Mission Continues, as this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award, which he will receive on Nov. 12. The biennial award includes a $125,000 prize.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard continues to face ‘foundational financial pressures’

    Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Treasurer Paul Finnegan spoke with the Gazette about Harvard’s financial landscape and the ongoing financial pressure facing the University.

  • Nation & World

    The threat to Burma’s minorities

    Harvard faculty and scholars gathered with Burmese refugees to discuss the ongoing mistreatment of that country’s Rohingya minority, which speakers called a “slow-burning genocide.” A Harvard Law School report said the country’s Karen minority also are under siege.

  • Nation & World

    When the wall came down

    Three scholars share close-up memories of scenes around the fall of the Berlin Wall.

  • Nation & World

    Power shift

    David King, a senior lecturer at the Kennedy School, answers questions on the midterm elections and what’s next for lawmakers.

  • Health

    A promising strategy against HIV

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General and Boston Children’s hospitals for the first time have used a relatively new gene-editing technique to create what could prove to be an effective technique for blocking HIV from invading and destroying patients’ immune systems.

  • Health

    Genesis of genitalia

    Findings from Harvard research may help explain why limbs and genitalia use similar gene regulatory programs during development.

  • Nation & World

    Legal champion of gay rights

    During a luncheon discussion at Harvard Law School with Dean Martha Minow, Mary Bonauto reflected on 25 years of seeking equal treatment under law.

  • Arts & Culture

    A sense of Wonder

    Harvard historian discusses the topic of her latest book, “The Secret History of Wonder Woman.”

  • Health

    Rapid-fire evolution

    Faced with stiff competition from an invading species, a Harvard study has found that green anoles evolved larger toe pads equipped with more sticky scales to allow for better climbing in just 20 generations over 15 years.

  • Campus & Community

    From preschool to Harvard

    As I write this column from the comfort of my Harvard College dorm room, my pulse still quickens when I think of that day in December 2013 — the day that made it all worthwhile. But before the moment that forever changed my life, there was a journey that started well over a decade before…

  • Health

    A hidden risk

    A new study by S. Allen Counter, clinical professor of neurology and director of the Harvard Foundation, shows that high levels of lead, as well as other toxic metals such as mercury and cadmium, can pass from mother to child through breast milk.

  • Health

    Toward genetic editing

    Led by David Liu, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, a team of Harvard researchers developed a system that uses commercially available molecules called cationic lipids to deliver genome-editing proteins into cells.

  • Campus & Community

    Cultural intelligence: Everybody needs it

    A diverse workforce, whose members have developed their cultural intelligence, is a more productive workforce, according to David Livermore, president of the Cultural Intelligence Center. In the first of the academic year’s Diversity Dialogues, Livermore said that diverse teams with high cultural intelligence out-performs homogeneous teams.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art’s shining future

    The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums reopen on Nov. 16 with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that unites the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under one shining glass roof.

  • Campus & Community

    Lone Star assembly

    The Harvard clubs of Dallas and San Antonio marked their centennials at a Your Harvard celebration with a gala dinner, bluegrass and piano performances, and remarks from Harvard President Drew Faust.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard’s new home for art

    After six years, the Harvard Art Museums will reopen to the public on Nov. 16. The renovation and restoration has united the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under a spectacular glass roof. Get an inside look at the Harvard Art Museums’ transformation in Monday’s daily Gazette, which will feature…

  • Campus & Community

    Menino remembered

    Thomas M. Menino, who was a transformative mayor of Boston for 20 years and worked with Harvard officials on myriad projects, is dead at 71. The Harvard community mourned his loss.

  • Campus & Community

    From Mexico to Texas to Cambridge

    As they visited Mexico and Texas, Harvard President Drew Faust and Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Domínguez reinforced the University’s deep and longstanding ties there, met with alumni and faculty, and, in Dallas, promoted the continued value of higher education.

  • Health

    Witness to anguish

    Graduate School of Education alumna Jessi Hanson traveled to Liberia to help set up a program to provide art and play therapy to children held in isolation after their family members died from Ebola. She shared her experiences in Liberia — and now in self-quarantine in the United States — with the Gazette.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Dream Songs’ and demons

    This month John Berryman’s longtime publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is marking his 100th birthday by reissuing some of his best-known work.

  • Nation & World

    Hello Kitty, hello profits

    On pop icon’s 40th anniversary, professor explains the global conquest of cute