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Campus & Community
Health care changes ahead
Open enrollment begins Oct. 27 at Harvard. Until Nov. 9, faculty, staff, and retirees can make changes to their benefits, elect a new vision care plan, and review 2012 rates and features for Harvard’s health plans.
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Nation & World
Widening national security concerns
A new collaboration between Harvard Law School and the Brookings Institution hopes to help define the widening, post-9/11 reality of what constitutes a threat to society.
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Campus & Community
Breakthrough
In science and medicine and across the humanities, Harvard has a legacy of transformative intellectual breakthroughs.
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Arts & Culture
Rethinking the Classics
David F. Elmer Assistant Professor of the Classics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
Surgical Anesthesia
Allan M. Brandt Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
First Programmable Computer
Michael D. Smith Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SEAS
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Campus & Community
Case Method
Todd Rakoff Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Harvard Law School
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Campus & Community
Sports Helmets, Catcher’s Mask
Thomas J. Gill IV Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Chief, MGH Sports Medicine Service
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Arts & Culture
The Power of Theater
Diane Paulus Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater Professor of the Practice of Theater, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
Reinforcement Theory
Mahzarin R. Banaji Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
The Invention of GIS
Charles Waldheim Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design
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Campus & Community
Multiple Intelligences
Tina Grotzer Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Science & Tech
The Cognitive Revolution
Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Harvard College Professor
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Campus & Community
Harvard Stories launches
Over the course of its history, Harvard has been home to hundreds of thousands of people who have as many stories to tell. As it celebrates its 375th anniversary, the University is launching Harvard Stories, a video oral-history project that showcases engaging personal narratives from members of the Harvard community.
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Campus & Community
Search begins for new dean of Harvard Divinity School
President Drew Faust announces the search for a new dean for the Harvard Divinity School. To assist in the search process, faculty members from the Divinity School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will serve on an advisory committee.
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Science & Tech
Tracking the pollution amid the remote
A national research project led by Harvard scientist Steven Wofsy tries to fill in the blanks of understanding how the Earth’s atmosphere works by crisscrossing the globe by jet, measuring air changes.
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Campus & Community
Leading Business Education
Nitin Nohria Dean, Harvard Business School Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration
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Arts & Culture
Literary Luminaries
James R. Russell Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
Organ Transplant
Nicholas L. Tilney Francis D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Arts & Culture
Revolutionizing Egyptology
Peter Der Manuelian Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Campus & Community
How to build a party
Preparations are under way for Harvard’s 375th celebration in Tercentenary Theatre on Friday. Wondering how to plan a party for 5,000 of your closest friends? Find out what you’ll need.
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Campus & Community
FY11 fundraising results announced
Despite continuing economic uncertainty, Harvard University raised $639 million in cash through fundraising efforts in fiscal year 2011, the third-highest total in the University’s history.
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Campus & Community
Earning her education by degree
Administrator Barbara Elfman, who interrupted her studies to raise her family, is using the TAP program to earn her master’s at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Memories of Armageddon
With haunting images, Japanese artist and survivor Junko Kayashige depicts the horrors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an exhibition of oil paintings on view at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Monroe C. Gutman Library.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry in the Yard
Homi K. Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, discusses his remembrance of September 11. Professor Bhabha’s project reflects on the decade since the tragedy through a series of poems installed within Harvard Yard.
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Nation & World
Alumni win Nobel Prize for economics
Two alumni of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who received their Ph.D.s from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, won the Nobel Prize for economics Oct. 10, 2011 for their work on change and the macroeconomy.
