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  • Health

    Potential diabetes treatment advances

    Researchers at MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, in collaboration with scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and several other institutions, have developed an implantable device that in mice shielded insulin-producing beta cells from immune system attack for six months — a substantial proportion of life span.

  • Science & Tech

    4D-printed structure changes shape when placed in water

    A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has evolved their microscale 3-D printing technology to the fourth dimension, time.

  • Campus & Community

    Presidential Public Service Fellows tackle big issues

    Combating pregnancy discrimination. Reducing racial disparities in obesity rates. Working on the front lines of the opiate epidemic. These are a few of the experiences undertaken by Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellows. The deadline to apply for the 2016 fellowships is Feb. 8.

  • Nation & World

    Entrepreneurial women

    It’s harder for entrepreneurial women to raise startup capital, but speakers on a Harvard Business School panel say there are paths through the maze.

  • Nation & World

    Taking people ‘to where they want to be’

    At HLS’s Community Enterprise Project, students provide free legal services to people who want to start small businesses and, in the process, they help communities prosper.

  • Arts & Culture

    Striving for imperfection

    Radcliffe fellow, composer, and sound artist Reiko Yamada’s interactive sound installation “Reflective” invites visitors to interact with piano music composed by Harvard Professor Vijay Iyer. The music changes depending on the direction of the visitor’s steps.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard, HUCTW agree on new contract

    Harvard University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers announced today that they have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract to provide HUCTW employees with an annual pay increase program, changes in health plan design, and other constructive policy initiatives.

  • Health

    $28M challenge to figure out why brains are so good at learning

    Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Center for Brain Science, and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology have been awarded more than $28 million to develop advanced machine learning algorithms by pushing the frontiers of neuroscience.

  • Work & Economy

    Doing his job

    Bill Belichick’s endlessly efficient management style holds lessons for business

    Patriots coach Bill Belichick wears headset on the sidelines during the first half of NFL Super Bowl XLIX.
  • Campus & Community

    Two professors win Wolf Prize

    Harvard professors C. Ronald Kahn and Stuart L. Schreiber have won the Wolf Prize, considered the most prestigious award in science after the Nobel Prize and the Lasker Award.

  • Nation & World

    ‘A win-win situation’

    General Electric’s decision to move its headquarters to Boston is seen as a boon to the region, fueled in part by area’s intellectual strengths.

  • Campus & Community

    Shareholder report available Jan. 15

    The 2015 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available on the Shareholder Responsibility Committees’ website.

  • Nation & World

    Top-down urgency for criminal-justice reform

    U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch made a strong case for criminal-justice reform during a talk at Harvard Law School.

  • Nation & World

    King’s Harvard connections

    Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. may be most associated with his efforts to desegregate the South, but the minister also had a valuable and lasting relationship with New England, and with Harvard.

  • Science & Tech

    Leading through impact

    For Harvard computer scientists, entrepreneurship is often a fulfilling extension of their cutting-edge research.

  • Campus & Community

    6 named Schwarzman fellows

    Six Harvard students were chosen to study in Beijing as part of first class of Schwarzman Scholars.

  • Arts & Culture

    David Bowie and me

    Harvard faculty members reflect on the artistic and cultural legacies of trailblazing musician David Bowie, who died this week at age 69.

  • Campus & Community

    Walter Kaiser dies

    Walter Kaiser, Harvard’s Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, died on Jan. 5.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Alumni Association announces candidates for Harvard Overseers and elected directors

    This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors.

  • Campus & Community

    Digitizing Native American petitions

    The Council on Library and Information Resources, through its Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, has awarded a grant of $275,795 to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in collaboration with a Yale partner, to create the Digital Archive of Native American Petitions in Massachusetts.

  • Arts & Culture

    A playful turn for libraries

    A new initiative is underway to use gaming and crowdsourcing to speed the massive task of transcribing documents, at Harvard and around the world.

  • Health

    Dance that adapts to disabilities

    A Graduate School of Education alumna brings her family history into the dance studio as she teaches children with disabilities the art of movement and the rewards they can reap.

  • Nation & World

    Nuclear nervousness

    Analysts at Harvard Kennedy School discuss North Korea’s latest nuclear test and the political implications it presents not only for neighboring powers like China and Russia, but for the rest of the world.

  • Health

    Oral contraceptives don’t increase risk of birth defects

    Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects, according to a new study by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark.

  • Science & Tech

    New destination for space-faring civilizations?

    Globular star clusters date back almost to the birth of the Milky Way, and according to new research, they also could be extraordinarily good places to look for space-faring civilizations.

  • Health

    Closer to detecting when and why blood clots form

    A research team at the Wyss Institute has developed a novel microfluidic device in which blood flows through a lifelike network of small “vessels.” Using automated pressure sensors and a proprietary algorithm, the data acquired is analyzed in real time and precisely predicts when a certain blood sample will obstruct the blood vessel network.

  • Campus & Community

    Divinity School’s Helmut Koester dies at 89

    Helmut Koester, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, died on Jan. 1 at age 89.

  • Health

    Strength in movement

    Scientists gave little thought to the neurological effects of dance until relatively recently, when researchers began to investigate the complex mental coordination that dance requires.

  • Science & Tech

    Did famine worsen the Black Death?

    New European ice-core data provides a view of the difficult times that led up to and may have worsened the Black Death.

  • Campus & Community

    Immersing themselves in marine biology

    Local high school students looked at life in the deep sea as they explored the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “Marine Life” exhibit. The visit was part of Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s Marine Science Internship Program.