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  • Arts & Culture

    Celebrating a decade of musical theater

    The American Repertory Theater’s production of “ExtraOrdinary” samples a decade of musicals while tapping into performers’ stories.

    ExtraOrdinaryOpeningNight
  • Nation & World

    The machinery to drive ed reform

    In an interview, Harvard’s Paul Reville explains the goals of an upcoming conference that invites mayors, school officials, and community leaders to discuss how to drive meaningful educational reform.

    Illustration of young girl with abacus inside of head.
  • Campus & Community

    Much to be thankful for

    Giving Thanks Open House allows Harvard community to share its message among colleagues and support the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter.

    Maggie Kiley
  • Nation & World

    A prophet of peace

    An interview with Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and 2016 Peace Prize winner for his efforts to negotiate an agreement that ended a 50-year-long internal conflict and brought peace to Colombia.

    Juan Manuel Santos.
  • Campus & Community

    A fond faculty farewell

    Harvard President Bacow, former leader Faust headline a faculty sendoff for former Dean Michael Smith of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

    Michael D. Smith waves goodbye at a faculty sendoff.
  • Campus & Community

    Learning to talk about race in the workplace

    Allison Manswell, author of “Listen In: Crucial Conversations on Race in the Workplace,” spoke at Harvard as part of its Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Dialogue series.

    Allison Manswell
  • Health

    Breathing uneasily

    The Gazette talked to Joe Allen of the Harvard Chan School about the health threats posed by wildfire smoke in California.

    Massive plume from the Camp Fire wafts over the Sacramento Valley.
  • Health

    The ongoing tragedy of lead in our lives

    The water crisis in Flint, Mich., has been a recent focal point, but the issue of lead pollution is both global and pervasive. Harvard conference focuses on the ongoing tragedy of lead in our lives.

    Michael McCormick speaks.
  • Nation & World

    One election winner: the pollsters

    It’s debatable whether the midterm elections delivered a demonstrably better night for Democrats than Republicans. But it was inarguably a big win for pollsters, says FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver at Harvard’s Political Analytics Conference.

    Moderator Kirk Goldsberry and panelists Nate Cohn and Amanda Cox.
  • Campus & Community

    Playing The Game, both past and present

    Photo gallery of scenes from the 135th playing of The Game, Harvard-Yale football at Fenway Park.

  • Science & Tech

    Critical collections

    Harvard researchers contribute to the preservation of museum specimens, marking the collections’ importance in a special journal released Nov. 19.

    Charles Davis
  • Nation & World

    Back to Myanmar with fresh insights

    Yee Htun, a Myanmar native who immigrated to Canada as a refugee and returned to work as a human rights lawyer in her native country, now teaches human rights advocacy at Harvard Law School.

    Yee Htun.
  • Arts & Culture

    Funny, creepy, or both?

    “The Laughing Room,” brainchild of Harvard metaLab researcher Jonny Sun, uses an algorithm to turn library visitors into performers.

    In 'Laughing Room' installation, people sit on couches, laughing.
  • Science & Tech

    Something weird this way comes

    A paper by Harvard researchers wonders whether the interstellar object known as “‘Oumuamua” is a visitor from an alien civilization.

    Artist's rendering of 'Oumuamua.
  • Campus & Community

    The thrill of winning a Rhodes

    Two Harvard undergraduates, Jin Park and Brittany Ellis, are among the 32 American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars on Saturday. They will begin their studies at the University of Oxford next October.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard beats Yale 45-27

    In the 135th playing of The Game, the Harvard football team (6-4, 4-3 Ivy) bested the Yale Bulldogs (5-5, 3-4 Ivy) in a commanding 45-27 victory at the historic Fenway Park today. Harvard’s victory in the colosseum of champions snaps Yale’s two-game winning streak in The Game.

    Harvard-Yale Game
  • Science & Tech

    Fish teeth mark periods of evolution

    Based on close examination of thousands of fossilized fish teeth, a Harvard researcher found that, while the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs did lead to the extinction of some fish species, it also set the stage for two periods of rapid evolution among marine life.

    Fish teeth
  • Science & Tech

    Bees on the brink

    Using an innovative robotic platform to observe bees’ behavior, Harvard researchers showed that, following exposure to a commonly used class of pesticides, bees spent less time nursing larvae and were less social than other bees.

    Bees in hive
  • Nation & World

    U.S. and Russia, behind the curtains

    A high-level intelligence group gathered at Harvard Kennedy School to analyze current relations between the U.S. and Russia, and gauge future goals of each.

    Douglas Lute (from left), Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Kevin Ryan, and Daniel Hoffman
  • Health

    Good fat vs. bad fat vs. high carb vs. low carb

    Nutrition researchers with widely varying views on dietary guidelines for fats and carbohydrates offered a model for transcending the diet wars, with both sides agreeing on overall diet quality.

    Healthy food clean eating selection: fish, fruit, vegetable, seeds, superfood, cereals, leaf vegetable
  • Campus & Community

    Warning: Warming ahead

    An art installation at Harvard’s Science Center Plaza aims to spread information about global warming, and prompt discussions of how to combat it.

    "Warming Warning" on Harvard's Science Center plaza.
  • Health

    Strong Harvard support for Nobel-winning efforts against sexual violence

    Denis Mukwege and activist Nadia Murad received the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to combat sexual violence. Harvard Health Initiative Director Michael VanRooyen applauded the news.

    Michael VanRooyen.
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard’s long history at Fenway

    In advance of The Game with Yale Saturday, here’s a look at Harvard’s long history at Fenway Park (beyond football).

    Harvard University band on the field at Fenway Park in 1963.
  • Arts & Culture

    The nature of sounds

    Composer David Rothenberg ’84 will bring the sounds of outdoors inside for a demonstration and discussion that features his unique ability to perform with nature.

  • Nation & World

    Sotomayor: Judges should pull together

    Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor comes to Harvard Law School to talk to students, suggests that judges cooperate more.

    Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor
  • Arts & Culture

    An artist of the avant-garde and the everyday

    A whimsical artist’s work is being celebrated in the exhibit “Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and MIT’s List Visual Arts Center.

    Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective.
  • Nation & World

    Opioid crisis shadows rural America

    A Harvard Chan School panel reacted to a report that lists the opioid crisis and the economy as top concerns for Americans in rural areas.

    Harvard Chan School panel.
  • Health

    Getting leaders ‘out of the basement’

    The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, prepares leaders for disasters that they probably will encounter.

    Eric McNulty and Leonard Marcus.
  • Campus & Community

    Presto: From ballpark to gridiron

    A look inside the process of turning Fenway Park from a baseball temple to a football stadium for the annual Harvard-Yale game.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard’s quantum leap

    By pairing quantum science exploration with solution-driven quantum engineering the new Harvard Quantum Initiative, aims to raise the bar across higher education, industry, and government research to progress quantum science and engineering and educate the future workforce.

    John Doyle, Evelyn Hu, and Mikhail Lukin.