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  • Campus & Community

    Fresh approaches in teaching

    Incorporating hands-on, experiential learning with rigorous classroom study is the sort of innovative approach that Harvard has striven to support in recent years, the sort that will play a central role in the Harvard Campaign for Arts and Sciences.

  • Science & Tech

    Geoengineering: Opportunity or folly?

    Scholars on opposite sides of geoengineering debated the climate change strategy’s potential — pitfalls and benefits — this week at the Science Center.

  • Arts & Culture

    An ancient tribe, and change

    It is the 50th anniversary of “Dead Birds,” the groundbreaking documentary of a Stone Age tribe that survived into the 20th century. Its creator was Robert Gardner, longtime director of the Film Study Center.

  • Campus & Community

    Corporation transitions planned for 2014

    William F. Lee, A.B. ’72, will become the Harvard Corporation’s senior fellow next summer, succeeding Robert D. Reischauer, A.B. ’63, the University announced today.

  • Campus & Community

    Donovan receives Coles Award

    Harvard President Drew Faust presented the annual Robert Coles Call of Service Award on Friday to U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.

  • Arts & Culture

    Life of Lee

    Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee took part in a wide-ranging Harvard discussion about his work, his collaborations, and his future plans.

  • Campus & Community

    The start that comes with aid

    Approximately 60 percent of Harvard College students receive need-based scholarship aid, and 20 percent of families pay nothing. To keep Harvard College affordable for students from nearly every financial background, funding for this program is one of six top priorities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Capital Campaign.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard launches Arts and Sciences campaign

    FAS Dean Michael D. Smith formally launched the $2.5 billion Harvard Campaign for Arts and Sciences on Saturday morning at a standing-room only alumni event at Sanders Theatre.

  • Arts & Culture

    Black like we

    A panel discussion introduced an exhibit of photos from the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 that shows African-Americans as they wished to be depicted, not as a discriminatory American society would have had them be.

  • Nation & World

    Health care hitches

    While the technical glitches on the online rollout for the Affordable Care Act might look bad from a political perspective, a Harvard Kennedy School professor argues that they’re equally bad from a health care perspective.

  • Science & Tech

    As complex as a toy

    Radcliffe Fellow Tadashi Tokieda is creating and using simple toys whose sometimes surprising behavior both illustrates scientific concepts and causes even experienced scientists to scratch their heads trying to figure out what’s happening.

  • Nation & World

    War-weary spirits

    An exhibit at Harvard Divinity School’s Andover-Harvard Theological Library and accompanying digital archive offer an intimate look at religious dimensions to the Civil War.

  • Campus & Community

    Collaboration key in health gains, Clinton says

    Former President Bill Clinton, at the Harvard School of Public Health to accept a Centennial Medal, hailed the networks active through the global health community as critical to gains made in recent decades.

  • Nation & World

    ChinaX has global ambitions

    New HarvardX course will examine China’s history, politics, philosophy, and hopes to draw both local students and others overseas.

  • Nation & World

    When 3+1 is more than 4

    Harvard Business School researchers find that to motivate workers more effectively, present higher pay as a gift.

  • Campus & Community

    Making the Harvard College Connection

    Harvard College today announced a new initiative to encourage promising students from modest economic backgrounds to attend and complete college. It will use social media, video, and other Web-based communications, along with traditional forms of outreach, to connect high school students to Harvard and to other public and private colleges.

  • Nation & World

    Don’t look now: It’s election ’16

    Panelists at the Harvard Kennedy School take an early look at the likely field of candidates in both parties for the 2016 presidential election.

  • Nation & World

    When things changed for women

    During a Radcliffe address, New York Times columnist Gail Collins offered her perspective on why how and why the rights and expectations of American women changed so dramatically between 1960 and today.

  • Campus & Community

    Top-notch teachers

    Edo Berger, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, and Anne Pringle, an associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, have been named the recipients of the 2013 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

  • Arts & Culture

    The digital Dickinson

    Houghton Library and Harvard University Press are two of the leading partners in the new Emily Dickinson Archive, a joint venture with other institutions that brings together most of her poem manuscripts.

  • Nation & World

    In Chile, a head start

    A Harvard-backed initiative in Chile aims to reduce economic disparity through an early education health initiative supported by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Medical School.

  • Nation & World

    Spoils of war

    While global pressure to curb the use of children in combat has worked in some places, the persistent challenge for international organizations is to find ways to integrate damaged former soldiers back into the communities they were led to violate and abandon, Harvard panelists say.

  • Campus & Community

    Macrofied

    The close-up perspective of the macro lens turns everyday surfaces into dynamic landscapes.

  • Science & Tech

    In Ireland’s recent history, a model for clean growth

    Clean economic growth is not just a pipe dream — it happened in Ireland between 1990 and 2010, when emissions dropped 10 percent even as the country’s economy grew 265 percent, the leader of that country’s Green Party said in a Harvard talk.

  • Campus & Community

    The games off the field

    Harvard welcomed 700 of its neighbors from Allston, Brighton, and Cambridge to the annual community football program on Saturday.

  • Arts & Culture

    The queen and the sculptor

    French Egyptologist Alain Zivie, a visiting scholar at the Semitic Museum, told a Harvard audience of his discovery of the tomb of Thutmose, who he believes is the artist who created the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti.

  • Campus & Community

    Nine named 2013 Cabot Fellows

    Nine professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The 2013 honorees were awarded for their distinguished publications.

  • Arts & Culture

    When all turn right, go left

    Avant-garde visual artist Robert Wilson delivered a talk at the Graduate School of Design, and jarred his audience into new imaginative spaces.

  • Campus & Community

    American Academy announces 233rd class

    Harvard scholars are among 164 influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge on Oct. 12.

  • Health

    New insight on wild nights

    New research suggests that, despite moonlight’s apparent hunting advantage, large predators such as lions are actually less active on the brightest nights, while many prey animals — despite the risk of being eaten — become more active.