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  • Campus & Community

    Two honored for teaching excellence

    Ruth Bielfeldt, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Sarah Richardson, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

  • Science & Tech

    Really, try the brisket

    Sixteen Harvard engineering students spent the last few months researching, designing, and building a better barbecue smoker. They presented their findings — and some tasty brisket — to guests during the final class presentation.

  • Arts & Culture

    Walt Whitman’s war

    A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.

  • Arts & Culture

    Making medieval German sing

    Professor Racha Kirakosian is using performance to help her students grasp gender issues in medieval German literature.

  • Health

    ‘New clarity’ against Alzheimer’s

    Rudolph Tanzi of Harvard Medical School, recently named to Time’s list of the most influential people in the world, talks about the promising future of Alzheimer’s research.

  • Nation & World

    ‘Destruction across the city’

    Lara Phillips, a Harvard Medical School instructor in emergency medicine, was in Nepal during the April 25 earthquake that devastated Kathmandu and other areas. She and colleagues have traveled from the high-mountain clinic where they worked to offer assistance.

  • Health

    Meditation may relieve IBS and IBD

    A small pilot study by Harvard-affiliated researchers finds symptom improvement and changes in expression of inflammation-associated genes in irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease patients who practice the relaxation response.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard faculty elected to NAS

    Seven Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Nation & World

    The women who questioned Wall Street

    A trio of Wall Street’s toughest critics talks about gender and taking on what’s been called America’s ultimate boys’ club.

  • Campus & Community

    Arts First, and at center

    Arts First, Harvard’s spring weekend festival, embraces creativity, audience participation.

  • Health

    Insight into seeing

    Harvard-affiliated researchers have been able to make a comparison of neurons in optic nerves to learn more about why some regenerate and others don’t.

  • Science & Tech

    Benefits of Clean Power Plan are clear

    States will gain large, widespread, and nearly immediate health benefits if the Environmental Protection Agency sets strong standards in the final Clean Power Plan, according to the first independent, peer-reviewed paper of its kind, published May 4 in the journal Nature Climate Change.

  • Nation & World

    Justice, pursued

    Harvard experts discuss how institutional policing strategies, practices, and culture contribute to the distrust between law enforcement and black citizens in many American cities, including Baltimore.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision’

    Gloria Hong ’15 won the Grand Jury Prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival for her short documentary, “Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision” The film was made while Hong was enrolled in “African and African American Studies 109,” taught by Joanna Lipper.

  • Campus & Community

    Charles Preston Whitlock service held

    Former Harvard College Dean Charles Preston Whitlock died on April 27 after a brief illness. He was 95. A memorial service will be held May 2.

  • Arts & Culture

    Picturing Harvard’s past

    An exhibit at Pusey Library demonstrates how the first Harvard class photograph albums evolved. In the antebellum 19th century, photography was young, image technologies were changing fast (often with Boston practitioners in the lead), and Harvard students began adding the visual to the repositories of memory that for centuries had been dominated by text.

  • Health

    Rapid evolution

    As part of the Harvard Horizons Symposium, Ph.D. candidate Shane Campbell-Staton will discuss his work with the green anole lizard, which corroborates the fact that rapid evolutionary responses can be viewed in real time.

  • Arts & Culture

    One-of-a-kind performer

    Damian Woetzel was honored with the Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony Thursday at Farkas Hall.

  • Nation & World

    Nigeria at the crossroads

    Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka told a Harvard audience on Wednesday that ruthless Islamist religious fundamentalism is “the enemy of humanity.”

  • Nation & World

    Drilling down on corruption

    As he concludes a five-year lab study on institutional corruption, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, departing as head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, reflects on the lessons learned, and the challenges that remain.

  • Health

    A home fit for a king

    State wildlife biologists installed a peregrine falcon nesting platform high on Memorial Hall’s tower.

  • Science & Tech

    Deans’ Challenges winners

    Five student-led teams at Harvard were named winners in the third annual Deans’ Challenges, focusing on health and life sciences, cultural entrepreneurship, the food system, and innovation in sports.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 29

    On April 29 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2015-16 and Courses of Instruction for 2015-16.

  • Campus & Community

    Long hitting the high notes

    Harvard’s Lowell House Opera is the longest continually performing opera company in New England.

  • Campus & Community

    Welcoming Harvard’s next class

    A freshman returns to Visitas, the annual weekend focused on incoming Harvard College students, and views their weekend through fresh eyes.

  • Arts & Culture

    A vivid life

    The life and art of Mark Rothko are examined in the new play “Red,” to be performed at Harvard Art Museums.

  • Science & Tech

    Redesigning design contests

    A Harvard conference on design competitions — which can be creative, ubiquitous, and troubling — lays out the present controversies surrounding them, and some solutions.

  • Campus & Community

    A call for ideas

    Awards given after New Venture Competition celebrate entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

  • Arts & Culture

    How to recast antiquity

    With help from a Harvard grant and a class on the ancient Near East, Harvard students are re-creating casts of Mesopotamian masterpieces.

  • Work & Economy

    ‘I had this extraordinary sense of liberation’

    Interview with Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School as part of the Experience series.