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Health
Is MS risk influenced by friends and families’ unhealthy habits?
A new study explores how health habits within personal social networks may impact neurological outcomes, with a special focus on multiple sclerosis.
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Science & Tech
Pitcher plants build own communities
Harvard research has shown that the “miniature ecosystems” housed in pitcher plants from opposite sides of the world are strikingly similar, suggesting that there may be something about the plants themselves that drives the formation of those communities.
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Science & Tech
Studying environmental issues in China
A group of Harvard undergraduatess interested in fighting environmental decline spent the summer studying China’s problems and working alongside scholars whose efforts are directed at a host of issues.
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Campus & Community
A Nobel incubator
Professor Richard Losick shares the story of a single floor in a single building on Divinity Avenue that served as a scientific home to three Nobel laureates and a training ground for six future laureates. A 10th researcher followed the same path, though he was on the floor above.
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Campus & Community
University community discovers special bond in unique setting
Marking its 10th anniversary, Harvard Housing’s Graduate Commons Program offers housing that brings together graduate students, faculty, staff, and their families through integrative events and programming that fosters community.
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Nation & World
The upper-class tool kit
Upper-class parents have tools to help their children succeed in a changing world and improve their social status, advantages not readily available to poorer families, according to a panel at a Harvard conference.
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Health
Where there’s global unrest, there are often pandemics
Pandemics are political, and the spread of disease is a common consequence of global conflict. In a lecture titled “Conflict and the Global Threat of Pandemics,” Michele Barry of Stanford University examined the relationship between unrest and health crises.
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Nation & World
A summer of service to cities
Through the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, student fellows this summer helped mayors around the nation to improve the lives of residents.
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Nation & World
Kerrey: Let’s re-emphasize critical thinking
Let’s re-emphasize critical thinking, Bob Kerrey, former U.S. senator and current Minerva chairman tells HILT conference.
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Campus & Community
The center in the crossroads
Harvard’s redesigned Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center officially opened Sept. 20 with a dedication ceremony attended by Harvard President Larry Bacow, President Emerita Drew Faust, and members of the Harvard and Cambridge communities.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Schools vote to take on challenge
Harvard Votes Challenge provides push to register eligible students, with TurboVote making it even easier.
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Arts & Culture
Intoxicating art
Nearly 60 examples of animal-shaped drinking objects make up “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings,” a new Harvard Art Museums exhibit that celebrates artistry and the exchange of ideas across cultures and centuries.
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Campus & Community
New VP for alumni affairs and development
Brian K. Lee has been appointed Harvard’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Larry Bacow announced.
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Arts & Culture
At GSD, a tale of four cities
At the Graduate School of Design, the exhibit “Urban Intermedia” stands as “an experiment and the beginning of an ongoing discussion on new kinds of practices around the study of cities,” said co-curator Eve Blau.
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Arts & Culture
Dancing with the future
A multimedia production incorporates dance, music, and spoken word to explore how humans might cooperate with future generations to try to solve problems like climate change. “Dancing with the Future” will premiere at Farkas Hall on Sept. 25.
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Campus & Community
Harvard files motion backing student testimony at trial
Harvard files court motion supporting student testimony at admissions trial. Students and alumni hope to offer their perspectives on the importance of diversity.
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Science & Tech
For teens who feel it all, a research-backed explanation
When teenagers seem to be experiencing conflicting emotions at the same time and struggling to make sense of them all, it may be because they are.
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Arts & Culture
What’s up in Boston’s fall arts scene
Highlights of what’s happening in music, theater, and art in Boston this fall.
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Campus & Community
Eight to be honored as W.E.B. Du Bois medalists
Athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick and comedian Dave Chappelle are among the eight people who will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Harvard University on Oct. 11.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Campaign ends, providing enduring investment
The Harvard Campaign, which concluded on July 1, will help “shape and secure Harvard’s future by investing in both the enduring and emerging …”
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Science & Tech
You say John, I say Paul. But what does stylometry say?
Who wrote “In My Life,” John or Paul? Harvard statistician Mark Glickman helps provide research-backed answer on authorship of Beatles classic.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Shawon Kinew
Q&A with Shawon Kinew as part of a series introducing new faculty members.
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Arts & Culture
‘Late Night’ with Degas and van Gogh
Harvard Art Museums opens its door for Student Late Night, giving students an intimate look at its premier art collection and jumpstarting the student-museum relationship that is uniquely available to Harvard affiliates.
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Campus & Community
Young, female, Native American, scientist
Six female Native Americans took part in the Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Arts & Culture
Nakaya’s fog sculptures lift Boston parks
Fujiko Nakaya’s multisensory fog sculptures are on view at Harvard’s Arboretum and four other Emerald Necklace parks through Oct. 31.
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Work & Economy
Bacow returns to Michigan roots
During a visit to his home city, Detroit, Harvard President Larry Bacow made the case for college to high school students, and lauded the city’s recovery efforts.
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Arts & Culture
Following Bergman into the dark
“Darkness Unto Light: The Cinema of Ingmar Bergman” shows at the Harvard Film Archive, as well as Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Cinema and Harvard Square’s Brattle Theatre, through Oct. 14.
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Campus & Community
Bobo named dean of social science
A scholar whose research probes inequality, politics, and race, Lawrence D. Bobo has been appointed dean of social science at Harvard. He takes the helm Oct. 1.
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Arts & Culture
Voicing the moods of Langston Hughes
A stage revival of the 1931 Langston Hughes poem “Black Clown” premiers at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater.
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Health
Money makes a difference in cholesterol management
A new study finds financial incentives for cholesterol management may help contain the costs associated with cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death and health care costs in the U.S.
