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  • Science & Tech

    AA benefits vary between sexes

    A new study finds differences in the ways that participation in Alcoholics Anonymous helps men and women maintain sobriety.

  • Arts & Culture

    Girls who rock out

    A film and a discussion at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library highlight Girls Rock Camp, which teaches girls and young women during summer sessions to find their inner musicians, shed some inhibitions, and celebrate themselves.

  • Campus & Community

    Two named Marshall Scholars

    Harvard senior Aditya Balasubramanian and recent graduate Alex Palmer are among 34 students nationwide who were recently awarded Marshall Scholarships.

  • Science & Tech

    Reality of rising sea levels

    Harvard Law School Professor David Barron offered a range of ideas as he addressed the challenges presented by rising sea levels.

  • Health

    Birth of new cardiac cells

    In a study from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, researchers used a novel method to identify the new heart cells and describe their origins.

  • Nation & World

    Egypt’s revolution: A work in progress

    Despite increasing dissatisfaction with the progress of political reforms, an Egypt expert said Monday that the nation’s revolution, which began during the Arab Spring uprisings, is still just beginning.

  • Campus & Community

    A director for Museums of Science and Culture

    Dean Michael D. Smith of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that Jane Pickering has been named executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.

  • Arts & Culture

    An ancient statue, re-created

    Harvard’s Semitic Museum is employing a high-tech response to the destruction of 3,300-year-old figures, using 3-D scanning to repair a ceramic lion that was damaged by the Assyrians.

  • Campus & Community

    A class open to the world

    Michael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations

  • Campus & Community

    Corporation member steps down

    Patricia A. King, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center, plans to step down from the Harvard Corporation at the end of December, the University announced today.

  • Campus & Community

    HHMI taps Erin O’Shea

    Erin K. O’Shea, the director of the FAS Center for Systems Biology, has accepted the position of vice president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She will also maintain her lab and involvement at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Blankets to warm the heart

    When Madeline Meehan makes her annual donation to Harvard Community Gifts, she won’t just be providing handmade blankets to sick children, she’ll also be helping her mother’s labor of love. This is one of a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities the can be supported through the Harvard Community…

  • Health

    The ants come marching

    Aaron Ellison, a senior research fellow in ecology at Harvard Forest, has co-authored a new book, “A Field Guide to the Ants of New England.” During a discussion, he explained their pivotal importance to nature.

  • Campus & Community

    Governance reform, two years in

    In an interview with the Gazette, Harvard President Drew Faust and Senior Fellow Robert Reischauer reflect on the University’s governance changes two years after implementation.

  • Campus & Community

    Ronald F. Thiemann dies at 66

    Ronald F. Thiemann, Bussey Professor of Theology and former dean of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), died on Nov. 29 at the age of 66.

  • Arts & Culture

    Lincoln’s dimensions

    Screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner sat down with President Drew Faust to dissect Abraham Lincoln’s legacy and talk history, politics, and writing after a Harvard-sponsored screening of his new biopic, “Lincoln.”

  • Nation & World

    A fall snapshot of Arab Spring

    Short on certainties, a Harvard panel convenes nearly two years after the start of the Arab Spring to offer perspectives on the past, present, and future.

  • Nation & World

    Chile-Harvard partnership strong

    Harvard marked its 10-year relationship with Chile with a two-day seminar examining the nation’s future.

  • Health

    ‘Stem cell tourism’ growing trend

    A Harvard panel examined the problem of clinics around the world that provide stem cell treatments for intractable conditions. Although there is no medical evidence of the treatments’ effectiveness, such clinics have drawn thousands of patients from many countries.

  • Arts & Culture

    Apocalypse now? Hardly

    During a sometimes tongue-in-cheek lecture on Wednesday, Professor David Carrasco discussed the historical origins of humankind’s periodic preoccupations with the apocalypse.

  • Campus & Community

    Help for Cambridge youths

    Harvard Medical School faculty members at the Cambridge Health Alliance lend a hand, in partnership with the Cambridge Police Department, the schools, and youth services agencies, to identify potentially troubled youths and divert them into structured activities and mental health programs.

  • Campus & Community

    Margaret Nast Lewis, 101, dies

    Margaret Nast Lewis, a former faculty member of the Harvard College Observatory, died in Cambridge on Nov. 23 at the age of 101.

  • Science & Tech

    Two Harvard teams win energy grants

    Two Harvard-led teams are among the 66 selected by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) that will receive a total of $130 million in funding through its OPEN 2012 program, which is designed to support innovative energy technologies.

  • Campus & Community

    Professor joins Arctic commission

    President Barack Obama has appointed James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC).

  • Campus & Community

    AAAS names 7 fellows from Harvard

    Seven faculty from Harvard University are named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

  • Science & Tech

    Building with DNA bricks

    Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created more than 100 3-D nanostructures using DNA building blocks that function like Lego bricks — a major advance from the two-dimensional structures the same team built a few months ago.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 28

    The Faculty Council held its monthly meeting on Nov. 28.

  • Campus & Community

    Early Action applications rise to 4,856

    A total of 4,856 students have applied for admission to Harvard’s Class of 2017 under the Early Action program, an increase of 14.9 percent over last year. The Class of 2016 had 4,228 students in the early pool.

  • Campus & Community

    Deans announce new challenge

    Thirteen deans from Schools across Harvard today announced $150,000 in new entrepreneurship challenges, expanding Harvard support for student innovation and cross-School collaborations with broad social and cultural impact.

  • Arts & Culture

    Shadow and substance

    Harvard alumnus T.S. Eliot published 10 poems in the student-run literary magazine The Harvard Advocate between 1907 and 1910, including the one below.