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  • Nation & World

    A firm voice on Europe

    Jan Fischer, former PM and current presidential candidate in the Czech Republic, talked to a Harvard audience about the debt crisis and the possibility of a full European federation.

  • Campus & Community

    A welcome from John Harvard

    In honor of Rafael Reif’s inauguration as the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the iconic John Harvard Statue seated in Harvard Yard was decked out with an MIT cap, scarf, and pennant.

  • Health

    For a health reform model, try Brazil

    Scholars and public health experts gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to examine Brazil’s progress toward meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development goals, and to see if there are lessons that can be applied to other countries.

  • Nation & World

    Middle East in motion

    Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, journalist Rami Khouri presented an overview of the “bewildering and exhilarating changes” that have swept the Middle East since the Arab Spring.

  • Arts & Culture

    Mighty exhibit

    Roberto Mighty’s exhibit, “First Contact,” opens Sept. 23 with a one-time film screening and an artist presentation. The exhibit is the culmination of Mighty’s yearlong artist residency at the Harvard Forest. The exhibit continues through October.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 19

    At its second meeting of the year on Sept. 19, the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian for the 2012-13 academic year. They also heard a preview of the Dean’s Annual Report to the faculty and presentations on academic integrity, Harvard’s international strategy, and edX.

  • Science & Tech

    Spoiled opportunity

    Republican objections to a climate change “tax” have stained the cap-and-trade approach to tackling climate change, making it politically unpalatable, even though it proved effective at fighting acid rain over the past two decades.

  • Health

    Rapid acts of kindness

    In a series of experiments, Harvard researchers found that people who make quick decisions act less selfishly than those who deliberate.

  • Arts & Culture

    The sacred Toni Morrison

    The Harvard Divinity School has organized a series of working groups to explore the religious dimensions of the work of author Toni Morrison in the lead-up to her Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.

  • Nation & World

    Explaining the baby bust

    Postindustrial countries from Japan to Italy are experiencing startling low birthrates, but the entry of women into the workforce isn’t to blame, according to Sociology Professor Mary Brinton, whose research looks at more subtle factors, including attitudes toward men’s and women’s roles in the workplace and the home.

  • Science & Tech

    Emergency planning

    Six of Harvard’s deep thinkers on climate change and sustainability took the stage Sept. 18 in the second annual Harvard Thinks Green.

  • Arts & Culture

    Death and the Civil War

    Filmmaker Ric Burns, Harvard President Drew Faust, and scholars screened and discussed “Death and the Civil War,” a PBS documentary based on Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.”

  • Nation & World

    A warning from inside Tunisia

    A Tunisian constitutional expert said Sept. 17 that recent violence, coupled with moves by the ruling Islamist Ennahda party to enshrine religion in the nation’s new constitution, are a bad sign for a pluralistic, democratic future.

  • Nation & World

    Suggestion of a married Jesus

    Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, a Harvard professor says.

  • Campus & Community

    Spend an evening with champions

    More than a dozen world-class figure skaters will take to the ice for a cause later this month as part of the 43rd annual An Evening with Champions.

  • Health

    Targeting childhood obesity early

    With childhood obesity now affecting 17 percent of American children, the nation is rallying around the concept that serious action is required. Harvard researchers have identified some key triggers for obesity in early childhood.

  • Nation & World

    “Jesus said to them, my wife”

    Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, Harvard Professor Karen King told the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies, September 18, 2012.

  • Nation & World

    Poverty in America, 2012

    Scholars from across the nation gathered at Harvard on Friday to examine the persistent problems of race, poverty, and economic inequality in the United States. The conference was focused around the 25th anniversary of the publication of “The Truly Disadvantaged” by University Professor William Julius Wilson.

  • Campus & Community

    Yard full of fun

    The College Events Board welcomed back Harvard students on Friday with its annual outdoor festival. This year’s event transformed Harvard Yard into a carnival, complete with a bounce house, dunk tank, games, music, and carnival food.

  • Arts & Culture

    Best practices writ large

    HBS Professor Clayton Christensen has built a storied career by, as he puts it, telling business leaders not what to think, but how to think about running their companies. In the two years since suffering a stroke, he’s tackled two other equally ambitious tasks: relearning how to speak, and teaching the rest of us how…

  • Campus & Community

    From library to living room

    The newly renovated first floor of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) was unveiled Wednesday night. The space was completely changed and updated over the summer as part of the College’s efforts to enhance undergraduate social spaces.

  • Campus & Community

    Feeding culinary curiosity: kids’ science and cooking

    Boston and Cambridge students between the ages of 9 and 12 take part in “Kids’ Science and Cooking,” a new program hosted by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in cooperation with ChopChop, a nonprofit cooking magazine for kids.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hip-hop and spoken word at Harvard

    Harvard Law School graduate Bryonn Bain brings his dynamic teaching style to campus this fall with his new course “Hip Hop and the Spoken Word: Theater Performance Laboratory.”

  • Nation & World

    Block the vote

    Should citizens have to show photo identification to vote? In recent years, many states have decided they do. A group of panelists debated the hotly partisan issue — and the possible implications for poor and elderly voters — at Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Arts & Culture

    Voice packed with passion

    Bryonn Bain introduced his new class, “Hip Hop and Spoken Word: Theater Performance Laboratory,” to a young crowd at Farkas Hall during Harvard’s Shopping Week.

  • Science & Tech

    Alan Turing at 100

    Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments celebrates the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, whose ideas theorized the first computers, spurred the science of artificial intelligence, and — oh yes — helped save the Allies during World War II.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard names vice provost for research

    Harvard names Richard McCullough of Carnegie Mellon University as the vice provost for research.

  • Campus & Community

    In MAC Quad, a cardboard castle

    Arriving Harvard students helped to build the world’s largest cardboard box fort in the MAC Quad.

  • Science & Tech

    Figuring out fairness

    A new Harvard study suggests that children as young as 3 consider merit — a key part of more-advanced ideas of fairness — when distributing resources.

  • Health

    Fat fighters found in fat tissue

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have found that a type of immune cell plays a role in guarding against obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease.