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  • Arts & Culture

    Poets, meet translators

    Noted Spanish-language poets are visiting Harvard this week in a first-of-its-kind event that pairs the poets and their works with top translators in the field.

  • Nation & World

    Inquiring minds

    Peter Hart, one of the nation’s leading opinion pollsters, gave students at Harvard Kennedy School a lesson in the art of asking questions and probing answers.

  • Campus & Community

    Professor Robert R. Bowie dies at 104

    Robert R. Bowie, the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus and founder and first director of the Center for International Affairs (now the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs) died Nov. 2 at the age of 104.

  • Campus & Community

    HDS gives thanks for its harvest

    Harvard Divinity School held its annual Harvest Celebration, giving thanks for the bounty of its community garden.

  • Nation & World

    A case for veterans

    Harvard Law School students argued a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, seeking to establish the rights of veterans who are redeployed and who also have benefits claims pending.

  • Health

    Three days, three wild finds

    Tim Laman, an associate of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and an award-winning wildlife photographer, was part of a two-man team that helicoptered into a remote Australian rainforest earlier this year, coming out with three new species: two lizards and a frog.

  • Campus & Community

    Fighting prejudice by admitting it

    Everyone is prejudiced, said a conference speaker. But there are ways to undermine and manage it.

  • Science & Tech

    Flour power

    Chef Joanne Chang ’91 returned to campus to delve into the basis of sweets as part of the “Science and Cooking” lecture series.

  • Nation & World

    Faith, hope, and government

    In Washington, D.C., two Harvard deans faced off in a discussion, “Religion and Politics in a World of Conflict,” explaining how leadership is vital to many nations to maintain a steady, open, middle path to resolving differences.

  • Campus & Community

    Taking talking leaves

    There are those Harvard curios that are fleeting and ephemeral and free: principally the fallen leaves that every autumn tourists and passers-by tuck into pockets and bags as mementos of a place, Harvard Yard, that shimmers with meaning and history.

  • Health

    Stages of bloom

    Harvard researchers have solved the nearly 200-year-old mystery of how Rafflesia, the largest flowering plants in the world, develop.

  • Campus & Community

    Progress report

    Harvard College interim Dean Donald Pfister and President Drew Faust welcomed the families of first-year undergraduates to campus Nov. 1 for the start of Freshman Parents Weekend, the annual two-day program of lectures, tours, and open houses.

  • Health

    Online, on site, in the field

    Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk outlined a new vision for public health education Friday (Nov. 1), outlining courses that blend online, in-person, and in-the-field experiences and that take different forms throughout a professional’s life.

  • Nation & World

    Imagination before hubris

    Professor Lawrence Summers tells finance students at Harvard Business School that it will be up to them to reform the financial system from within.

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s soccer captures 11th Ivy League Championship

    Capturing its 11th Ivy League title, and fourth over the past six years, Harvard women’s soccer beat Dartmouth, 2-1, on Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium.

  • Arts & Culture

    Oh, the horror!

    What’s behind the fascination with horror? A number of Harvard experts recently offered their insight into the genre’s powerful lure.

  • Campus & Community

    Sox title strikes right note

    An organist of 11 years for the Red Sox, Harvard library assistant Josh Kantor serenaded fans deep into the night after the team’s World Series win.

  • Campus & Community

    Associate chief diversity officer named

    Norm J. Jones, who has had a long and distinguished career in academic diversity, compliance, and inclusion, has been appointed the associate chief diversity officer and deputy director in the Office of the Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity.

  • Health

    When depression and anxiety loom

    Two new books from Harvard Health Publications are aimed at people who have more than normal levels of anxiety and depression but fall short of clinical definitions.

  • Nation & World

    Excelling together

    To gain some understanding of why the Boston Red Sox succeeded so well, the Gazette spoke to Jeffrey T. Polzer, the Harvard Business School UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management, about aspects of team chemistry that separate champions from cellar dwellers in sports and business.

  • Health

    Comparing charts on health

    U.S. and Chinese health officials gathered at Harvard’s Longwood Campus to discuss health care challenges facing both nations, including the rise of noncommunicable diseases and reforming health care systems.

  • Nation & World

    The measure of a woman

    Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House minority leader and former speaker, appeared at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to discuss the progress that American women have — and have not — made since a milestone 1963 report initiated by President John F. Kennedy on their status.

  • Science & Tech

    Engineering a better life

    When Kathy Ku ’13 proposed to build a water-filter factory in Uganda for $15,000 last year, her contacts advised her to double her budget. If all goes to plan, by next August Ku and her classmates will have created a fully functional and self-sustaining water-filter factory, supplying clean water at half the cost of imported…

  • Campus & Community

    Carving out a winner

    The Class of 2017 got creative for the annual freshman pumpkin-carving contest. Entries were on display at Annenberg Hall just in time for Halloween.

  • Arts & Culture

    National digital library gains traction

    The Digital Public Library of America, with Harvard in its heritage, celebrates its first six months with an idea conference in Boston.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 30

    On Oct. 30 the members of the Faculty Council heard a report on the Study of Religion and updates on the Division of Continuing Education, Advances in Learning, and Title…

  • Science & Tech

    Mystery world baffles astronomers

    Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn’t exist. “This planet is a complete mystery,” said astronomer David Latham of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). “We don’t know how it formed or how it got to where it is today. What we do know is that it’s not going to last forever.”

  • Campus & Community

    Next up for renewal: Winthrop

    Winthrop House is expected to be the next undergraduate residence in Harvard College’s House system to be renewed.

  • Campus & Community

    A boost for city students

    Alumni from the Crimson Summer Academy discussed the importance of the Harvard program in opening doors to confidence and college.

  • Nation & World

    #Twitterforsale

    HBS Professor Josh Lerner evaluates the investor’s view of the much-anticipated Twitter IPO.