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  • Nation & World

    The rigor of reargument

    Over many months, a Harvard Law School team put in long hours to craft a legal brief, hoping to sway a Supreme Court decision that will affect the fate of lawsuits regarding international human rights.

  • Science & Tech

    Desert mystery

    In a talk at Harvard’s Semitic Museum, archaeologist Robert Mason described the discovery of mysterious rock formations near an ancient monastery in Syria.

  • Health

    My microbes

    A new study reports that the superabundance of microbial life lining our GI tracts has co-evolved with us. These bacteria, which are essential for a healthy immune system, are ultimately our evolutionary partners.

  • Campus & Community

    Fertile minds

    Wrapping up an arboretum internship, students from Norfolk County Agricultural High School visited Harvard Yard to learn about Harvard Landscape Services’ recent switch to organic methods and materials.

  • Health

    Brigham team implants artificial heart

    The first complete artificial heart transplant in New England was performed at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

  • Campus & Community

    375th: A look back

    This academic year, Harvard celebrated the 375th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College in 1636. To mark this milestone, the University launched a yearlong series of programs and activities, beginning with a celebration in Harvard Yard in October.

  • Campus & Community

    Straight from the farm

    Harvard welcomed back farmers’ markets in Allston and Cambridge.

  • Campus & Community

    Oxford awards honorary degree to Faust

    Harvard President Drew Faust was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University in a ceremony marked by traditions four centuries old on a campus at least twice as old as Harvard’s.

  • Health

    Climbing out of hiding

    For decades, scientists have been stymied in their attempts to better understand proboscis anole, a small lizard whose defining feature is a horn on its nose, because it appeared to be all but extinct — until now.

  • Campus & Community

    Sampling Harvard, and science

    Harvard hosted a Step UP/Project TEACH event for students and parents from the Hennigan Elementary School in Jamaica Plain and the E. Greenwood Leadership Academy in Hyde Park. The effort is part of a program to show young students what college is like, particularly in the sciences.

  • Nation & World

    With health rights denied, a patient had no hope

    Those interested in health and human rights from around the world gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health this week for an executive education program intended to provide practical lessons in rights litigation and create a community for those who care about extending health care to all.

  • Health

    The problem of pre-existing mutations

    In a critical step that may lead to more-effective HIV treatments, Harvard scientists have found that, in a small number of HIV patients, pre-existing mutations in the virus can cause it to develop resistance to the drugs used to slow the progression of the disease.

  • Campus & Community

    Nine professors named 2012 Cabot Fellows

    Eight professors were named 2012 Cabot Fellows to honor their excellent publications.

  • Campus & Community

    HMS, Dana-Farber scientists receive 2012 Alpert Prize

    HMS faculty Kenneth Anderson, Paul Richardson, and Alfred Goldberg are three of four researchers being honored for their research and development of a pioneering cancer drug.

  • Arts & Culture

    World literature, sized right

    A Harvard professor leads a team of editors to create a third edition of an erudite, Earth-circling “Norton Anthology of World Literature.”

  • Nation & World

    A Nobel cause in the Arab world

    The West must do more to support the ongoing, peaceful democratic revolutions in long-suppressed Arab nations, Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman said during an address at the Harvard Kennedy School

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard announces plans, next steps for Health and Life Science Center in Allston

    Harvard Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Provost Alan Garber have shared the next steps in resuming development on the University’s Health and Life Science Center in Allston. Read the report.…

  • Arts & Culture

    Old Japan, online

    “Early Photography of Japan,” a virtual collection of more than 2,000 images from three Harvard University libraries, documents the early history of Japanese commercial photography, and reflects the Western image of traditional Japanese culture before modernization.

  • Health

    Tracing the brain’s connections

    A team of researchers is using a genetically modified version of the rabies virus to create the first comprehensive list of inputs that connect directly to dopamine neurons in two regions of the brain.

  • Campus & Community

    Faust on forest foray

    Harvard President Drew Faust toured scientific sites at the Harvard Forest last week in a visit that marked the first time in decades that a Harvard president visited the 3,500-acre experimental forest site.

  • Arts & Culture

    Updike’s roots and evolution

    Harvard’s Houghton Library offers a glimpse of a coming treasure trove for scholars, the John Updike Archive.

  • Health

    Mapping microbes in people

    New studies involving Harvard School of Public Health researchers have helped to identify and analyze the vast human “microbiome,” the more than 5 million microbial genes in the body.

  • Science & Tech

    Now, ice won’t stick

    A Harvard team of researchers has invented a way to keep any metal surface free of ice and frost. The treated surfaces quickly shed even tiny, incipient condensation droplets or frost, simply through gravity.

  • Arts & Culture

    Strong showing for musicals with A.R.T. ties

    “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and “Once” — two shows with pre-Broadway origins at the American Repertory Theater — had a boffo night at Sunday’s Tony Awards, taking home the prizes for best musical revival and best musical, respectively.

  • Campus & Community

    Jain receives 2012 Science of Oncology Award

    Rakesh Jain received the 2012 Science of Oncology award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, recognizing his three decades of pioneering work in the field of oncology.

  • Science & Tech

    Using nature to inspire robotics

    The annual symposium of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, held at Harvard Medical School, prompted a spirited discussion on robotics and medicine, with nature as a model.

  • Campus & Community

    HMS publication recognized in national design competition

    “Frontiers in Ophthalmology,” a comprehensive report of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, won a national design competition for its 2012 publication.

  • Campus & Community

    Peabody Museum’s new director

    Professor Jeffrey Quilter will be the next William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum, effective July 1.

  • Health

    Training leaders for malaria fight

    A group of mid-career officials gathered at Harvard Business School for an intensive course focused on educating a generation of leaders for the global campaign to eradicate malaria.

  • Health

    ‘Stealing’ life’s building blocks

    Researchers have found that a parasitic flower takes large portions of its genetic code from its host, and that some genes borrowed by the flowers may even be functional. The surprising finding suggests that the process may convey some evolutionary advantage to the flowers.