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  • Campus & Community

    James Ackerman, historian on Renaissance architecture, dies at 97

    James Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus, lived a life of service, giving himself fully to his country, his pupils, and his research.

  • Nation & World

    Our crumbling infrastructure

    With President-elect Donald Trump pushing for a federal infrastructure improvement plan, Harvard faculty consider the needs and challenges that may dog the ambitious proposal.

  • Arts & Culture

    Building character

    Molly Antopol, a Radcliffe Fellow and author of “The UnAmericans,” talks about the creative process behind her fiction.

  • Campus & Community

    Minow to step down as Law School dean

    Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow announced she will step down at the end of this academic year. With a focus on access to justice, public service, and entrepreneurship, Minow guided the School in new directions to prepare lawyers for challenges and opportunities brought by globalization and a changing legal profession.

  • Science & Tech

    The false choice of basic vs. applied research

    Venkatesh Narayanamurti, he former dean of Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is suggesting doing away with the traditional applied/basic research divide in favor of one that encourages greater collaboration and a two-way path between discovery and invention.

  • Campus & Community

    Top stories of 2016

    A look back at some of the Gazette’s most popular stories of 2016.

  • Campus & Community

    Style with staying power

    The Ivy League style of clothiers such as J. Press and the Andover Shop has stood the test of time.

    Denis Black is the general manager emeritus of J. Press Store in Harvard Square. He has been with the store since 1977 and in the clothing business for over 50 years. He is pictured by the shop entrance on Mt. Auburn Street. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
  • Campus & Community

    Recognition for their discoveries

    Harvard physicists Cumrun Vafa and Andrew Strominger have been named winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in recognition of their groundbreaking work in a number of areas, including black hole theory, quantum gravity, and string theory.

  • Campus & Community

    Backstage at Harvard’s Oberon Theater

    Go behind the scenes of the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club’s production of “Into the Woods”

  • Science & Tech

    A platform for rapid innovation

    Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has established a collaborative research agreement with Facebook, which establishes a platform to quickly and easily pursue joint or sponsored research projects with the company.

  • Arts & Culture

    Making magic out of 26 letters

    Harvard’s creative writing program is growing in creativity and size.

  • Health

    Spotting speedy brain activity

    Using ultra-fast MRI scans, scientists are able to track rapid oscillations in brain activity that previously would have gone undetected, a development that could open the door to understanding fast-occurring cognitive processes that once appeared off-limits to scientists.

  • Health

    Love interrupted

    A new study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center examines the neuroanatomy behind delusional misidentification syndromes.

  • Health

    Topical treatment clears precancerous skin lesions

    Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found a topical chemotherapy and an immune-system-activating compound that is able to rapidly clear actinic keratosis lesions from patients participating in a clinical trial.

  • Arts & Culture

    In ‘Fingersmith,’ lead role for lighting

    Lighting designer Jen Schriever talks about her vision for the A.R.T.’s adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel “Fingersmith.”

  • Campus & Community

    Delving into ‘belonging’ at Harvard

    The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, created by President Drew Faust in September, is gathering information through listening sessions and has started subcommittees to examine how to build on Harvard’s commitment to campus diversity and be a university where all feel they belong.

  • Science & Tech

    Diamonds are a lab’s best friend

    Using the atomic-scale quantum defects in diamonds known as nitrogen-vacancy centers to detect the magnetic field generated by neural signals, scientists working in the lab of Ronald Walsworth, a faculty member in Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Physics Department, demonstrated a noninvasive technique that can show the activity of neurons.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘I’m very lucky to represent’ Harvard

    Tommy Amaker reflects on becoming the Crimson’s winningest men’s basketball coach after his 179th win.

  • Arts & Culture

    Forever bringing joy

    Professor Alex Rehding talks about his research for a book on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

  • Campus & Community

    Rhodes and Marshall scholars

    At this time of year, most Harvard seniors are worrying about job interviews or graduate school applications, but not Dhruva Bhat and Julius Bright Ross. The two seniors will spend the next two years studying in the United Kingdom, Bhat as a Rhodes Scholar and Ross as a Marshall Scholar.

  • Science & Tech

    The world’s tiniest radio

    Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world’s smallest radio receiver, built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Yard to Boston City Hall

    Jackie Lender ’16, who is the first Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, shares her experience.

  • Science & Tech

    The duo who upended intuition

    On a visit to Harvard, best-selling author Michael Lewis talked about the deep friendship and pioneering collaboration of famed psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose work created the field of behavioral economics.

  • Health

    Better days for Boston cyclists

    Boston has become a safer place for bicyclists as it has improved its infrastructure, a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health says, with the chances of being injured in a bicycle accident falling 14 percent a year between 2009 and 2012.

  • Nation & World

    Inside the hacked U.S. election

    Kevin Ryan, a Russia-U.S. security analyst and Belfer Center director of defense and intelligence projects, discusses the conclusion by U.S. intelligence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and did so in an effort to boost the Republicans.

  • Science & Tech

    The climate change threat to food

    Four experts gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a panel concerning the impact of climate change on agriculture and the global food system, with an emphasis on the United States and Africa, and a nod toward what the incoming Trump administration might do about the issue.

  • Campus & Community

    Thomas Schelling, Nobelist and game theory pioneer, 95

    Thomas C. Schelling, a major figure in shaping the modern Harvard Kennedy School and a 2005 Nobel Prize winner in economics, died at 95.

  • Health

    Longer use of pain relievers tied to hearing loss in women

    A Harvard study has found that women who used ibuprofen or acetaminophen for six years or more were at higher risk of hearing loss than those who used these medications for a year or less.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard students, meet the Stone Age

    Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.

  • Campus & Community

    Seeing Harvard at dawn

    In the morning hours before classes start, the Harvard community prepares for the day ahead.