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  • Nation & World

    Hub away from home

    Established in 2006, the São Paulo, Brazil, office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies acts as a facilitator, connecting Harvard faculty and students with Brazilian collaborators.

  • Science & Tech

    Study shows female physicians paid less

    A Harvard study provided strong evidence that female physicians are underpaid compared to their male counterparts.

  • Health

    Lasering in on tumors

    In the battle against brain cancer, doctors now have a new weapon: an imaging technology that will make brain surgery dramatically more accurate by allowing surgeons to distinguish between brain tissue and tumors, and at a microscopic level.

  • Campus & Community

    Legacies of leadership

    PBHA summer campers rise through the ranks to take leadership positions and start to give back to their communities.

  • Campus & Community

    Staffer wins Hollywood Book Festival grand prize

    Jonathan Womack, a media technician at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, took home the grand prize at the Hollywood Book Festival for his sci-fi novel “A Cry for a Hero.”

  • Campus & Community

    Japan cultural agency honors Bestor

    Theodore C. Bestor, the Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, has received the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Award for the Promotion of Japanese Culture from the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan.

  • Arts & Culture

    Zines were the scene

    Two Harvard undergrad spent the summer at Widener Library working with a newly acquired collection of zines, the self-published, self-distributed counterculture voices of the 1980s and early ’90s.

  • Science & Tech

    Biases that can blind us

    Psychology Professor Mahzarin Banaji gave incoming members of Harvard’s Class of 2017 a tour of their own biases, helping to raise awareness that can help them avoid making decisions based on unconscious preferences.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Let us begin again’

    Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first day of fall classes Tuesday by welcoming students and faculty to a new academic year during the traditional Morning Prayers.

  • Campus & Community

    Goodbye tourists, hello residents

    As the Class of 2017 settled in at Harvard and began Freshman Week, students from around the world were busy taking in the unfamiliar sights and sounds of their tightly packed, red-brick neighborhood, their home base for the next four years.

  • Campus & Community

    Welcoming the Class of ’17

    At the annual Freshman Convocation Monday, Harvard President Drew Faust and other University officials told the Class of ’17 to embrace challenges, reach out to fellow students and others, and keep open minds about what the future should hold.

  • Science & Tech

    Pinched minds

    The accumulation of money woes and day-to-day anxiety leaves many low-income individuals not only struggling financially, but cognitively, says Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan. In a study featured in Science, he reports that the “cognitive deficit” caused by poverty translates into as many as 10 IQ points.

  • Campus & Community

    HUPD releases annual security report

    The Harvard University Police Department has released its annual report on crime, prevention, substance abuse, and other on-campus services.

  • Campus & Community

    Deep devotion, explored

    Harvard Divinity School’s annual convocation included an address by Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies Stephanie Paulsell, who explored the theme of devotion in the texts of the Bible’s “Song of Songs,” and in the work of author Virginia Woolf.

  • Campus & Community

    Updated Quincy a happy home

    After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy, the first test project in the House Renewal initiative, began welcoming students this week.

  • Campus & Community

    David S. Landes, 89, dies

    David S. Landes, a renowned historian whose work focused on the complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance, died Aug. 17 at age 89.

  • Campus & Community

    Heaney’s death caught ‘the heart off guard’

    Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature with longtime ties to Harvard, died Aug. 30 in Ireland at age 74.

  • Campus & Community

    How the garden grows

    Thanks to an abundant garden, the Harvard Faculty Club is saving money and producing even better-tasting food.

  • Health

    Skip the juice, go for whole fruit

    Harvard researchers have found that people who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits — particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples — reduced their risk for type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent in comparison to those who ate less than one serving per month.

  • Science & Tech

    Hack attacks, explained

    In a question-and-answer session, Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, explains the latest hack attacks on major news media outlets.

  • Science & Tech

    Transparent artificial muscle plays music

    Using a gel-based audio speaker, Harvard researchers have shown that electrical charges carried by ions, rather than electrons, can be put to meaningful use in fast-moving, high-voltage devices.

  • Campus & Community

    Panel opens door to disabilities discussion

    To address the growing numbers and concerns about disabilities, Harvard????s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Human Resources organized a community discussion titled “Working with People with Disabilities: What Happens After You Say Hello?”

  • Arts & Culture

    Food, gender, culture

    Harvard Summer School is big, young, diverse, and challenging — qualities summed up nicely by a course on food, gender, and American culture.

  • Science & Tech

    Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change

    A Harvard model predicts that by 2050, wildfire seasons will be three weeks longer, up to twice as smoky, and will burn a wider area in the western United States.

  • Science & Tech

    One goal, many players

    GoAmazon2014 is part of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), the largest umbrella for research in the Amazon, which explores everything from social issues to scientific inquiries.

  • Science & Tech

    Atop the Amazon rainforest

    Harvard air chemistry expert Scot Martin is working with the Department of Energy, as well as several international partners, to track how pollution above the pristine Amazon rainforest is changing the climate.

  • Nation & World

    Who needed a stapler?

    Harvard Professors Eric Mazur and Gary King, together with postdoctoral fellow Brian Lukoff, took an idea about how to change classroom teaching and created a company based on it. When the company sold last spring, it didn’t even own a stapler.

  • Science & Tech

    Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit

    A growing number of Harvard faculty members, fellows, and even students are looking to take their innovative ideas a step further and bring them to the marketplace.

  • Nation & World

    Slowing the work treadmill

    Harvard Business School Professor Teresa Amabile compares much of work life to running on a treadmill. People try to keep up with the demands of meetings, email, interruptions, deadlines, all while trying to be more productive and creative, she says, yet on many days they seem to make no progress at all, especially in creative…

  • Campus & Community

    Paws to refresh

    On the Science Center Plaza for the next several Thursdays, Harvard freshmen and others will be able to spend time lingering at a small petting zoo, part of a new Common Spaces initiative.