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  • Campus & Community

    Experiments in learning

    Researchers gave Boston students some lessons in scientific method during an event at the Hennigan Elementary School in Jamaica Plain.

  • Nation & World

    Falling fertility rates

    For the past several years, Mary Brinton, Radcliffe fellow and chair of Harvard’s sociology department, and a team of collaborators have been exploring declining fertility rates in postindustrial societies.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvesting energy from devices

    Heat is a byproduct of nearly all electronic devices, yet most of it goes wasted. In an effort to recapture some of that energy and transform it into electricity, a team of Harvard and University of Sannio researchers have developed computer simulations to control the flow of heat and electrical current independently.

  • Campus & Community

    Undersea life, clear as glass

    The Harvard Museum of Natural History has opened a permanent exhibition of the glass sea creatures created by famed artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka more than a century ago.

  • Campus & Community

    Q&A with Harvard’s Title IX officer

    In a question-and-answer session, Harvard’s first Title IX officer, Mia Karvonides, discusses the new University-wide policy and procedures in that area.

  • Campus & Community

    A new sexual assault policy

    Harvard University has unveiled a University-wide policy and set of procedures to prevent sexual harassment, including sexual violence related to gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

  • Health

    New way to regrow human corneas

    Harvard-affiliated researchers have identified a way to enhance regrowth of human corneal tissue to restore vision, using a molecule that acts as a marker for hard-to-find limbal stem cells.

  • Health

    Improving stem cells’ regenerative potential

    A team at Harvard Stem Cell Institute recently found that transplanting mesenchymal stem cells along with blood-vessel-forming cells naturally found in circulation improves results. This co-transplantation keeps the mesenchymal stem cells alive longer in mice after engraftment, up to a few weeks compared with hours without co-transplantation.

  • Nation & World

    Denial of coverage

    A question-and-answer session probes the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that for-profit companies can object to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate on religious grounds.

  • Nation & World

    In soccer, a game plan for life

    Several Harvard students and alumni will work in some of Brazil’s most underserved communities this summer, helping change lives through soccer.

  • Health

    The goal: New arms

    Will Lautzenheiser, a former Boston University film professor who lost his arms and legs from an infection, has been cleared by the Institutional Review Board at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a double arm transplant, a complex procedure requiring 12 to 16 hours of work by a team of surgeons.

  • Science & Tech

    Tomorrow isn’t such a long time

    A study by Harvard researchers and colleagues tested ways to encourage decisions mindful of future generations.

  • Arts & Culture

    The genesis of genius

    Tiny, hand-lettered, hand-bound books Charlotte and Branwell Brontë made as children have been lovingly restored at the Harvard Library.

  • Arts & Culture

    Scrolls and scrolling

    Students in two spring courses combined library and museum visits with digital tools to produce exhibits about the Middle Ages — one in Houghton Library and the other online.

  • Campus & Community

    Time to go to market

    The two farmers’ markets at Harvard have reopened for the summer.

  • Nation & World

    The death penalty and Christianity

    In a question-and-answer session, Harvard Divinity School’s Francis X. Clooney discusses how Christian advocates and opponents of the death penalty turn to Scripture for support of their positions.

  • Campus & Community

    Lurie wins award

    Harvard mathematics Professor Jacob Lurie has been named one of five inaugural recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for outstanding achievement in his field. Honorees will each receive a trophy and $3 million prize at a ceremony this fall.

  • Campus & Community

    5 named Harvard College Professors

    Their scholarly interests range from the design of programming languages to health economics to the molecular changes that influence evolutionary fitness. One thing the five faculty members who were awarded Harvard College Professorships in recent weeks have in common is a gift for instilling passion for education in their students.

  • Campus & Community

    Sound technique

    Memorial Church has gained another dimension of resonance with the installation of a new bell.

  • Campus & Community

    Middle schoolers embrace health

    Nearly 400 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders from 15 schools across Boston and Cambridge visited Harvard Medical School as part of the annual program Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities. The program works to expand students’ knowledge of health and public health issues.

  • Nation & World

    Old Harvard, old France, old crime

    An exhibit drawn from the holdings of the Harvard Law School Library combines detailed scholarship with a touch of scandal.

  • Science & Tech

    Now available on the Web? Smells

    Harvard Professor David Edwards and a former engineering student, Rachel Field, added another sense to digital communications, sending a smell across the Atlantic, where a scent generator called an oPhone reproduced it.

  • Science & Tech

    Worrisome growth pattern

    Forest growth is starting to show the effects of climate change, new research finds.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Management Company turns 40

    University and Harvard Management Company officials gathered Thursday to mark the anniversary of the latter’s founding, which made Harvard one of the first universities with a specialized organization to oversee its institutional investments.

  • Health

    A malignant ‘switch’ in breast cancer

    A team of researchers led by David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has identified a possible mechanism by which normal cells turn malignant in mammary epithelial tissues, those frequently involved in breast cancer.

  • Campus & Community

    Above and beyond

    Harvard Heroes ceremony celebrates 64 unsung staffers for their unusual and valuable contributions to University life.

  • Nation & World

    World Cup worries

    Harvard Kennedy School associate professor, a native of Brazil, reflected on the World Cup and its likely repercussions.

  • Science & Tech

    Delving into dark matter

    Harvard physicists have suggested that a disk of dark matter may lie along the center line of the galaxy.

  • Nation & World

    A rising tide

    Early results from new reforms instituted at the Lawrence Public School system show promise.

  • Campus & Community

    Robert Richardson Bowie

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 1, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Robert Richardson Bowie, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Bowie, who founded the Center for International Affairs, combined distinguished academic achievement with professional service at…