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  • Campus & Community

    Help with kids. And pets. And …

    The WATCH Portal, an online network launched last year to connect Harvard parents with University-affiliated baby sitters, is expanding its marketplace to include tutoring, pet care, and a host of other services for busy employees in a pinch.

  • Campus & Community

    In the Yard, a changing of the guard

    The trees of Harvard Yard are in the midst of managed change as the once-ubiquitous elms continue their decades-long decline. Mixed species, dominated by American trees, replace them.

  • Nation & World

    Digital society from the bottom up

    Kicking off the first in a three-part lecture series sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, “Exclusions and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence, and Strategy,” Ernest J. Wilson III, examined what the transition to a digital society means for “those at the bottom.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Disruptive music

    Harvard Professor Ingrid Monson during a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is exploring the music of Malian Neba Solo.

  • Campus & Community

    Transplant pioneer dies at 93

    Joseph E. Murray, emeritus professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, whose many breakthroughs included the first successful kidney transplant, died Nov. 26, after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke at his Wellesley, Mass., home on Thanksgiving. He was 93.

  • Science & Tech

    New device hides from infrared cameras

    A new device invented at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) can absorb 99.75 percent of infrared light that shines on it. When activated, it appears black to infrared cameras.

  • Campus & Community

    VP for strategy, programs named

    Leah Rosovsky, executive administrative dean at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences, will become Harvard University’s vice president for strategy and programs, President Drew Faust announced today.

  • Campus & Community

    Sen named Chevalier

    Amartya Sen, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, has been decorated with the title of Chevalier in France’s Legion of Honor.

  • Science & Tech

    Ancient Iraq revealed

    Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, earlier this year launched a five-year archaeological project — the first such Harvard-led endeavor in the war-torn nation since the early 1930s — to scour a 3,200-square-kilometer region around Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, for the signs of…

  • Arts & Culture

    To understand, make a map

    “Cartographic Grounds,” an exhibit of new and old mapmaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, intends to inspire a new generation of designers to draw, with precision, what they see, and to present, with art, what they imagine.

  • Arts & Culture

    Note taking in a clickable age

    A recent Radcliffe symposium explored the history and future of note taking.

  • Health

    Sophisticated worms

    In a new study of worm locomotion, researchers show that a single type of motor neuron drives an entire sensorimotor loop.

  • Science & Tech

    Steps toward sustainable seafood

    Harvard University Dining Services has turned its attention to sustainable seafood, an effort that may lead to new institutional standards for purchasing.

  • Nation & World

    A Q&A on economic outlook

    A discussion with Harvard Professor Kenneth Rogoff on the nation’s prospects for a stronger fiscal future.

  • Health

    TB test offers rapid results

    A new rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) could substantially and cost-effectively reduce TB deaths and improve treatment in southern Africa — a region where both HIV and tuberculosis are common — according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers

  • Health

    Glimpses of paradise

    Photographer and Harvard affiliate Tim Laman worked with Edwin Scholes of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to document all 39 species of birds of paradise.

  • Nation & World

    Truth, values, in a reviving America

    With a bitter national election fading in the rearview mirror, Harvard scholars look ahead and strike an optimistic chord, suggesting the nation can meet the many serious challenges facing it.

  • Arts & Culture

    Poetry in the making

    David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, is spreading his love of sijo, a poetic form.

  • Campus & Community

    Six from Harvard win Rhodes

    Six from Harvard win Rhodes Scholarships, among only 32 students nationally selected for the prestigious academic honor.

  • Health

    NFL chief talks player safety at HSPH

    NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell highlighted recent moves to make the game safer and affirmed a commitment to player safety Thursday (Nov. 15) during a talk at the Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Health

    New views on deadly diseases

    Harvard researchers are challenging the popular portrayal of Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers. In a new paper in Science, researchers present evidence that the diseases may be more common — and much older — than previously thought.

  • Campus & Community

    Rhodes selects six Harvard students

    Six Harvard undergraduates are among the 32 American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars on Sunday. They will begin their studies at the University of Oxford in October 2013.

  • Campus & Community

    Fans make a day of it

    The Game began long before the teams hit the field. Tailgaters filled the parking lots and later everyone filled the stadium as more than 30,000 people watched Harvard beat Yale, 34-24, in the 129th annual showdown.

  • Science & Tech

    Ways of seeing

    Harvard scientist Margaret Livingstone uses works of art to explore the workings of the brain.

  • Arts & Culture

    Creating a whole from fragments

    A show by artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, which examines issues of family and the Afro-Latin experience in America, opened Thursday at the Neil L. & Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

  • Nation & World

    Souter, back on the bench

    Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter dusted off his robes to preside over this year’s Ames Moot Court Competition finals, where two teams of Harvard Law School students went head-to-head on the constitutionality of “Buy American” laws.

  • Nation & World

    When ZIP code isn’t destiny

    Author and educator Doug Lemov told a packed audience Thursday in the Harvard Graduate School of Education that specific, concrete techniques, readily learned, can help to transform good teachers into great ones.

  • Campus & Community

    Taking a moment to give thanks

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences administrators and staff gathered this week to thank co-workers and colleagues for their professionalism and thoughtfulness — and to reach out to those less fortunate in the community.

  • Campus & Community

    Stars and stripes at The Game

    When alumna Danielle Thiriot ’07 returns for the Harvard-Yale game (aka The Game) on Saturday, she’ll have one of the best seats in the house. Above the house, in fact, and traveling at 300 knots, about 345 mph.

  • Science & Tech

    Tipping science on its head

    Scientist and Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman argued for a new approach to teaching science to college students, introducing it earlier in the learning process.