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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard College junior follows humanities

    Secure in his humanities concentration, junior Matthew DeShaw gains balance and confidence from internships that mixed business with pleasure.

  • Science & Tech

    Worlds of promise

    The future of visual and augmented reality was the theme of a HUBweek event that attracted students, scientists, educators, entrepreneurs, and software developers for an afternoon of demonstrations and discussions.

  • Campus & Community

    Across Harvard, art you can touch

    Sculptures are dotted across campus in both public and private spaces.

  • Campus & Community

    Honan 5K paves way to support local programs

    The Brian J. Honan 5K Run/Walk gathered more than 1,300 people together to raise money for local charities and educational programs on Sept. 25.

  • Campus & Community

    Becoming her fullest self

    Sarah Lewis ’97 talks to the Gazette about returning to Harvard to join the faculty of the History of Art and Architecture.

  • Arts & Culture

    In Germany, learning while seeing

    The Harvard Summer Program in Freiburg, Germany, seeks to broaden the outlook of 20 Harvard students, each of whom is paired with a German student from the University of Freiburg, though a combination of classroom teaching, excursions to important sites in the region, and exposure to the town and its people.

  • Science & Tech

    A hot idea for conserving energy

    Aldís Elfarsdóttir ’18 didn’t like the energy-wasting implications of cracking the window to lower the temperature in her Eliot House room. So she and two recent grads have launched a temperature data-gathering project to help the House conserve wasted energy.

  • Campus & Community

    Sharing the small stuff

    The fifth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference will be a showcase for “bite-sized innovations.”

  • Arts & Culture

    The play’s the thing

    Students will premiere “Calamus” at the Leverett Library Theater on Friday, with shows continuing through the weekend.

  • Health

    Peeking between memory and perception

    Your brain is able to stitch together a coherent 360-degree panorama of the world around you, and now researchers are beginning to understand how.

  • Campus & Community

    Douglas Melton wins Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize

    Douglas Melton, co-director of Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Xander University Professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, has been awarded the 2016 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize from the Gladstone Institutes.

  • Campus & Community

    A more inclusive Harvard

    Harvard President Drew Faust has convened a University-wide task force to examine issues of inclusion and belonging on Harvard’s increasingly diverse campus. The co-chairs discuss the task ahead.

  • Health

    Changes in memory tied to menopausal status

    By studying women ages 45 to 55, investigators at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that reproductive stage, not simply chronological age, may contribute to changes in memory and brain function.

  • Campus & Community

    Debating democracy itself

    As part of HUBweek, Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel led a civic dialogue on the value of democracy and civic life on the night of the first presidential debate.

  • Arts & Culture

    Musicologist puts race center-stage

    Harvard musicologist Carol Oja, currently a Radcliffe fellow, talks about her book in progress examining the desegregation of classical music.

  • Campus & Community

    The year ahead for Rakesh Khurana

    Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana sat down with the Gazette to outline his goals for the year ahead, including the implementation of Harvard’s new single-gender organization policy, efforts to strengthen inclusion and investments in more social spaces across campus, and his life as a faculty dean of Cabot House with his wife, Stephanie.

  • Nation & World

    Figure it out yourself

    Victor Pereira Jr.’s class is among the courses offered through the Teacher Education Program, an 11-month master’s program at Harvard Graduate School of Education, that aims to improve teaching in urban public schools.

  • Campus & Community

    Welcoming the world to Harvard

    A gift in memory of Moise Y. Safra will support the Moise Y. Safra Welcome Pavilion, which will be located at the entrance of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center when it reopens in 2018.

  • Campus & Community

    Ten from Harvard named HHMI Faculty Scholars

    Ten Harvard scientists have won the support of a new funding initiative by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Gates Foundation.

  • Arts & Culture

    A generous vision for Harvard Art Museums

    Prior to arriving on campus as Harvard Art Museums director, Martha Tedeschi was the deputy director for art and research at the Art Institute of Chicago. She recently spoke with the Gazette about her new role.

  • Arts & Culture

    Mixed messages

    “The Art of Discovery,” an exhibit in Radcliffe’s Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, includes work by 13 current fellows.

  • Arts & Culture

    Unhand that comma!

    Harvard wordsmiths Jill Abramson and Steven Pinker answered questions from the Gazette to mark National Punctuation Day.

  • Nation & World

    Debating the debates

    On the eve of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Harvard analysts discuss whether presidential debates offer citizens civic value anymore and how to improve them as the nation navigates its political differences.

  • Health

    Giving weight too much weight

    Programs to combat obesity may be aggravating eating disorders and undermining their severity, said experts during a panel discussion hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  • Arts & Culture

    Confronting campus issues from the stage

    The Bok Center Players specialize in thought-provoking theater examining race, gender, and identity.

  • Health

    Teaching computers to identify odors

    Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers were able to “train” a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents, and identify whether specific odors were present in a mix of smells.

  • Campus & Community

    Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes

    Law Professor Glenn Cohen led an interactive one-night class at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston that focused on the complicated questions surrounding the legal, medical, and ethical aspects of bioethics.

  • Arts & Culture

    An imaginative leap into real-life horror

    Colson Whitehead ’91, author of the acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad,” talks about Harvard, writing, and slavery.

  • Nation & World

    What Russia wants

    Russian leader Putin and his government seek respect and stability from the next U.S. administration, Institute of Politics panel says.

  • Science & Tech

    Why lose the headphone jack?

    Harvard Engineering Professor Woodward Yang discusses Apple’s decision to get rid of the headphone jack.