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  • Campus & Community

    Opening academia widely

    In an effort to dispel the notion that graduate school and careers in academia are generally beyond the reach of minority students, Harvard hosted the second Ivy Plus Symposium.

  • Nation & World

    A fresh bite of the Apple

    A classic Harvard Business School case about the Apple creation myth gets a Japanese manga-style comic-book reboot.

  • Arts & Culture

    The making of a musical

    With a show on Broadway, artist-in-residence Jason Robert Brown explains his craft.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard coed sailing nets two top-five finishes

    In its first multievent weekend (March 22-23) of the spring season, the No. 17 Harvard coed sailing team turned in two top-five performances in two teams races. The Crimson claimed fourth at the Team Race Invitational and took fifth at the 54th Jan T. Friis Trophy.

  • Health

    New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates

    Harvard researchers have estimated that around 1 million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the number of cases diagnosed every year.

  • Campus & Community

    Briscoe wins ‘Nobel Prize of water’

    Harvard Professsor John Briscoe, who has made a career of tackling water insecurity challenges around the world, will receive the Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of water.”

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard men’s basketball moves past Cincinnati, 61-57

    Twelfth-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team had a 61-57 win over fifth-seeded Cincinnati in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday. It faces Michigan State on Saturday.

  • Campus & Community

    Business School expands online

    Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School’s reach and deepening its impact. In HBX, the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings.

  • Arts & Culture

    Collectively peculiar

    In an inaugural exhibition from the Harvard University Archives, staffers bring a few dozen awesome oddities into the light of day.

  • Nation & World

    Three ways to innovate in a stagnant environment

    Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses innovation, advanced leadership, and how to make change in an inflexible organization in “The Business,” an HBS podcast series.

  • Nation & World

    A change for the better

    William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard, lauds the recently announced reform of the SATs. He explains why the changes should help level the playing field for students.

  • Health

    Fair-minded birds

    New research conducted at Harvard demonstrates sharing behavior in African grey parrots.

  • Campus & Community

    Meeting the challenges

    Harvard University has announced 18 student-led teams as finalists in three deans’ innovation competitions focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and design.

  • Campus & Community

    Ties to the past

    We all know how hard it is to get your hands around the past. So why not put the past around your neck?

  • Health

    Genetic link between fried foods and obesity?

    Harvard researchers have released the first study to show that the adverse effects of fried foods may vary depending on the genetic makeup of the individual.

  • Health

    Too sweet for our own good

    Even the “healthy” fruit drinks that Americans sip are packed with the amount of sugar contained in six cookies. That love affair is making us sick.

  • Arts & Culture

    A new chapter in verse

    The Woodberry Poetry Room is sponsoring a series focused on rethinking the possibilities of the creative-writing workshop.

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s basketball readies for Cincinnati

    The Harvard men’s basketball team received a 12 seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament and will face 5th-seeded Cincinnati in the second round Thursday at 2:10 p.m. The game will be televised live on TNT.

  • Health

    Secrets of the narwhal tusk

    The narwhal tusk has now been mapped, showing a pathway between the spiral tooth and the narwhal brain. The study reflects how the mysterious animal may use its tusk to suss out its environment.

  • Science & Tech

    Backing the Big Bang

    In breakthrough, astronomers find evidence of speedy ‘cosmic inflation’ of universe.

  • Nation & World

    Putin makes his move

    A Q&A with Nick Burns of Harvard Kennedy School on what’s likely to happen next in Ukraine and in the standoff with its neighbor Russia.

  • Arts & Culture

    Between the lines

    Three Harvard faculty members divulge an influential book in this installment of Harvard Bound.

  • Nation & World

    The bright side of Pakistan

    A January conference in Pakistan on urbanization was the first of five in the region and a result of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s growing work there.

  • Science & Tech

    Putting the ‘estimate’ back in estimates

    Professor M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon wants to bring the uncertainty back to forecasting, he said in a Harvard talk.

  • Science & Tech

    The melding of technology

    Former MIT President Susan Hockfield discussed the power of technology’s ongoing convergence during a session at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

  • Science & Tech

    Roomy cages built from DNA

    Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have discovered a way to build self-assembling cages made of DNA. The cages are the largest stand-alone DNA structures made to date, and one day may be able to deliver drugs or house tiny bioreactors or photonic devices inside the human body.

  • Science & Tech

    Wearing technology

    MIT Professor Rosalind Picard and a team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a wristband that can gauge a person’s emotional response to stimuli or situations by tapping skin conductance, an indicator of the state of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s flight-or-fight response by ramping up responses like heart…

  • Arts & Culture

    Eyes on ‘America,’ with hope of drawing more

    Christopher E.G. Benfey lectured on “America,” a wall designed by Josef Albers, as part of GSD’s “Then and Now” series.

  • Campus & Community

    Get up, it’s Housing Day

    Freshmen, who spend their first year living in and around the Yard, are sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses on Housing Day.

  • Science & Tech

    A national perspective on climate change

    Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication Anthony Leiserowitz spoke at a Harvard Kennedy School seminar called “Climate Change in the American Mind.”