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  • Campus & Community

    New life for Memorial Church

    Immediately following Commencement, Memorial Church will close as, for the remainder of the calendar year, it undergoes renovations.

  • Science & Tech

    Research gives edge to fessing up

    New HBS research finds that avoiding sticky questions leaves a far worse impression on others than simply coming clean with unflattering answers.

  • Campus & Community

    Finding her place by helping

    Jing Qiu ’16, an economics concentrator, decided to volunteer at the Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard’s largest student organization. It changed her life.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope

    A large-scale, audio-video installation uses the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a starting point to examine the fragility of humanity. “Ah humanity!” was created by Harvard artists Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

  • Arts & Culture

    Plácido Domingo shares his secrets

    Legendary tenor and opera director Plácido Domingo will be celebrated in a conversation called “Giving Voice” on April 14 at Sanders Theatre.

  • Arts & Culture

    Real talk

    Playwright and director Ifeoma Fafunwa brings the hopes and challenges of Nigerian women to Harvard with “Hear Word!,” making its U.S. premiere at the Harvard Dance Center this weekend.

  • Arts & Culture

    The art of the moment

    Vijay Iyer, the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, gathered four friends and colleagues for “Bending Toward Justice: Improvisation, Freedom, and the Arts,” a panel discussion on how dance, music, and their improvisational tendencies influence the world.

  • Health

    For life expectancy, money matters

    A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that income is closely correlated with life expectancy, with the richest Americans living as much as 15 years longer than the poorest — and even the poor living longer in wealthy areas.

  • Campus & Community

    Alan Erickson, longtime Cabot librarian, dies at 88

    Alan Eric Erickson, longtime librarian of the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library at Harvard College, died March 23 following a brief illness; he was 88.

  • Campus & Community

    In mind and heart, never far from home

    Andrea Ortiz ’16, a Mexican immigrant who grew up in Miami, hopes to build a career that allows her to address issues of poverty, education, immigration, and crime in low-income communities in the United States.

  • Arts & Culture

    Translating nine pounds of poetry

    Sinologist Stephen Owen devoted eight years to the first complete English translation of the great Chinese poet Du Fu.

  • Science & Tech

    Gore sees progress on climate change

    Former Vice President Al Gore brought a dose of optimism about climate change to Harvard on April 7, saying the problems are severe, but the solutions are emerging.

  • Campus & Community

    Marks of distinction

    Sixty-five FAS employees from 45 departments were recognized with the annual Dean’s Distinction Awards.

  • Science & Tech

    Mixed progress cited in challenging discrimination

    The Weatherhead Center continued its series of discussions on inequality, focusing on the mixed progress of efforts to advance fairness and social inclusion. The talk touched on discrimination against the Roma people and the disabled, and the rise of inequality in an era of support for human rights.

  • Arts & Culture

    Sacred words

    Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson gave a lecture called “The Divine” at Memorial Church.

  • Health

    When picky eating is too great a luxury

    Low-income parents face an extra challenge when trying to get their kids to eat healthy: the cost of food wasted if children refuse to eat it.

  • Arts & Culture

    Patterson receives Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

    Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

  • Campus & Community

    Chiaroscuro: Exploring the dark and the light

    The Italian word “chiaroscuro” means roughly “light and dark.” As in film noir, visual attributes play a starring role. Blacks are like coal, and shadows are long and dramatic.

  • Campus & Community

    White and male and seen all over

    When portraits on institutional “walls of fame” are almost exclusively of white men, it sends a message that can have psychological and performance effects, two researchers said at a recent Diversity Dialogue.

  • Health

    New weapon against breast cancer

    Levels of a molecular marker in healthy breast tissue can predict a woman’s risk of getting cancer, according to new research from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

  • Campus & Community

    To Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba

    Harvard officials unveil a plaque as part of efforts to recognize the lives and contributions that enslaved people have made to the University.

  • Nation & World

    The puzzles for pollsters

    Harvard hosted the first-ever conference featuring thought leaders at the intersection of politics and data analytics to assess the 2016 election and challenges facing this emerging field.

  • Science & Tech

    Hunting polluting gases around Boston

    Students, faculty, and fellows are fanning out across the Boston area to take measurements aimed at determining where and how much natural gas is leaking and where the worst carbon dioxide emissions occur.

  • Campus & Community

    From ‘what we do’ to ‘whom we serve’

    Huntington Lambert, dean of the Harvard Extension School, discusses the highlights of his first three years on the job, the opportunities available to students through the Division of Continuing Education, and the role of digital technology in lifelong learning.

  • Arts & Culture

    The ace of bass

    Noted jazzman Rufus Reid is teaching Harvard students, and will share his wisdom and musicianship with the public. There will be two events open to the public — on April 6 and 9.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘People want politics to be about big things’

    Interview with Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, as part of the Experience series.

  • Campus & Community

    When housing becomes a community

    When Micaela Connery’s cousin was born with significant physical and developmental disabilities, Connery didn’t realize the full impact it would have on her life. This spring Connery will graduate with an M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Arts & Culture

    Beyond poetry

    Thomas Wisniewski, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a 2016 Harvard Horizons Scholar, seeks to reintegrate the neglected field of prose metrics into literary studies.

  • Health

    Our blood, ourselves

    Two Harvard-trained researchers, who bonded while battling epidemics in West Africa, are developing diagnostic technology to help women monitor their own health and fertility.

  • Nation & World

    No hearing for Garland, but plenty of noise

    Harvard analysts discuss the politics at work behind the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland ’74, J.D. ’77.