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  • Campus & Community

    Food for thought

    Harvard’s varied dining halls attract undergraduates because of their intriguing spaces and moods, as well as their meals.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard remembers Howard Raiffa

    The respected social scientist and educator enhanced peoples’ understanding and capacity to make the world a better place, says HKS Dean Elmendorf.

  • Nation & World

    Death in black and white

    Harvard Law School’s Ronald Sullivan discusses the shocking eruption of deadly violence between police and African-Americans in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Dallas.

  • Health

    Clues to camouflage

    Chromatic aberration may explain how cephalopods can demonstrate such remarkable camouflage abilities despite being able to see only in black and white.

  • Arts & Culture

    Unearthed bones bring Philistines to life

    A Harvard-backed expedition working in Israel has carried out the first-ever excavation of a Philistine cemetery.

  • Health

    The bionic cardiac patch

    Harvard Professor Charles Lieber and other scientists conducted a study that describes the construction of nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be seeded with cardiac cells to produce a bionic cardiac patch.

  • Arts & Culture

    Taking big bites of history

    A Q&A with Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and author of “Joe Gould’s Teeth.”

  • Science & Tech

    Microscopy taps power of programmable DNA

    With a super-resolution microscopy, a team of researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute has leveraged the power of programmable DNA.

  • Campus & Community

    For small businesses, a good guide is a good start

    Former SBA administrator Karen Mills spoke about innovation and small business growth as part of her Ed Portal lecture, encouraging local small business owners to use the resources available at Harvard.

  • Science & Tech

    Turning the brain green

    Harvard neurosurgeon Ann-Christine Duhaime thinks a better understanding of the brain’s reward system might help encourage greener living.

  • Health

    New approach to severe bacterial infections and sepsis

    Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital are looking at new potential avenues for controlling both sepsis and the runaway bacterial infections that provoke it.

  • Science & Tech

    The power of babble

    Babies need conversational stimulation for their intellectual development, and a piece published in JAMA Pediatrics hopes to advise parents and pediatricians on how and when to best nurture that development.

  • Campus & Community

    A different view of the universe

    A project between Harvard and Boston Public Schools through the WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors Program is inspiring young students to get involved with science and explore more than just outer space.

  • Health

    Unsaturated fats linked to longer, healthier life

    A three-decade study conducted by Harvard Chan School lends further support to recent findings on fat intake and long-term health.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard and Berklee to offer dual degree

    Harvard University and Berklee College of Music announced a dual degree program that will let students earn a bachelor of arts degree at Harvard and a master’s degree at Berklee in five years.

  • Nation & World

    Child’s remark the impetus for marriage equality suit

    Julie Goodridge returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to participate in last semester’s Askwith Forum and speak about her role in the same-sex marriage movement.

  • Campus & Community

    Fast-tracking their dreams

    Autumne Franklin ’16, Jade Miller ’17, and Gabrielle Thomas ’19 are three standouts among the Harvard athletes competing for a spot with Team USA at the Summer Olympics.

  • Science & Tech

    Unveiling Jupiter’s mysteries

    In less than a week, the spacecraft Juno will reach Jupiter, culminating a five-year, billion-dollar journey. Its mission: to orbit and peer deep inside the gas giant and unravel its origin and evolution. One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Jupiter is how it generates its powerful magnetic field, the strongest in the solar system.

  • Campus & Community

    Taking care of their own

    Harvard Divinity School master’s candidate Nestor Pimienta launched a program for students to tutor children of Harvard workers, hoping to build stronger bonds among students, workers, and their families.

  • Nation & World

    Strong statement on abortion access

    Harvard Law School professor I. Glenn Cohen breaks down the ruling and its ramifications.

  • Nation & World

    Celebrating a decade in São Paulo

    The Lemann Brazil Research Fund furthers connections between Harvard and Brazil.

  • Science & Tech

    Nature as storm defender

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s new program “Next in Science” brought together early career scientists to present their research to Harvard and the public. The event, which included speakers from the University of Glasgow and the Sea Education Association, offered a preview of Radcliffe’s October ocean symposium, “From Sea to Changing Sea.”

  • Science & Tech

    Tackling carbon emissions in China

    A Beijing symposium co-sponsored by the Harvard China Project and the Harvard Global Institute explored the possibility of China adopting a carbon tax as a way to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The Gazette spoke with economist Dale Jorgenson, the Samuel W. Morris University Professor, and Chris Nielsen, the executive director of the China Project,…

  • Science & Tech

    On demand, and now on schedule

    Joshua Meier ’18, a computer science and chemistry concentrator at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, launched TaxiLater, an iPhone app that lets users arrange an Uber pickup hours, days, or even months in advance.

  • Nation & World

    After Brexit, a changed future

    Harvard analysts talk about the effects of the United Kingdom’s referendum to leave the European Union on both Britain and the continent.

  • Arts & Culture

    Finding beauty in the bizarre

    The Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910,” on view through Aug. 14, borrows its name from the 1857 collection of symbolist poems about decadence and eroticism by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It also captures the essence of an artistic movement that sought to render the invisible visible through the use…

  • Science & Tech

    Defending breakthrough research

    Harvard initiates patent infringement suits to protect inventors’ rights in computer-chip technology.

  • Campus & Community

    Hidden Spaces: The Sunken Garden in Radcliffe Yard

    Young and old travel from near and far to the Radcliffe sunken garden to sit and enjoy this splendid oasis in the city.

  • Nation & World

    Limitations on the undocumented

    A divided Supreme Court ruled against President Obama’s executive actions that could have aided 5 million illegal immigrants, and Harvard analysts reacted.

  • Nation & World

    Affirming whole-person admissions

    Universities may continue to consider racial and ethnic backgrounds in evaluating their applicants for admission, Supreme Court rules.