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  • Nation & World

    An academic reality show

    Online course ‘PredictionX’ brings together faculty from across the University to discuss the human need to know the future.

  • Nation & World

    A call to build on differences

    Promoting a global society that celebrates both its common humanity and its differences is the antidote to the world’s deepening divisions, the Aga Khan — the worldwide spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili Muslims — said in a visit to Harvard Thursday.

  • Arts & Culture

    Defending disciplines

    Delivering the second Provostial Lecture of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Menschel Hall on Tuesday, University Provost Alan Garber ’76 made a compelling case for the continuation of this tradition, in academia, careers, and beyond.

  • Campus & Community

    Ebola outbreak: A system that failed

    During an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Ashish Jha examined where the global health system failed when Ebola began to spread.

  • Arts & Culture

    Literary arc

    Radcliffe Fellow Ross Gay is a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry.

  • Campus & Community

    A hub for rowers

    Weld Boathouse is home to the Radcliffe lightweight and heavyweight crews, as well as Harvard’s recreational sculling and intramural House crew programs. It also supports a wide range of fitness programs, including yoga, cycling, and weight training.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art that interrupts

    Artist Shahryar Nashat uses video, sound, and shapes to “intervene” in the space designed by Le Corbusier, while connecting his work with “Private Practice” inside Harvard Art Museums. The goal of the exhibits is to bring together these two gallery spaces as a result of this unique collaboration.

  • Nation & World

    What’s past is prologue

    Celebrated author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed how U.S. policy on criminal justice today is still deeply enmeshed with the nation’s fraught racial legacy.

  • Arts & Culture

    Where the orthodox and unorthodox meet

    Harvard’s Elisa New will introduce poet Alicia Jo Rabins, who will read from her book “Divinity School” and play with her band Girls in Trouble on Nov. 16 at Harvard Hillel.

  • Arts & Culture

    Making music that matters

    The Grammy-winning Benin-born singer Angélique Kidjo will bring her passion for music and for giving back to Harvard with two days of lectures and discussions.

  • Campus & Community

    Flier to step down as Medical School dean

    Jeffrey S. Flier will step down as dean of Harvard Medical School next July and return to teaching following a sabbatical year in 2016-17.

  • Health

    The fading of polio

    Faculty and student panel examines efforts to make polio the second human disease to be eradicated during the “Every Last Child” event at Radcliffe.

  • Nation & World

    Agreeing to disagree

    Associate Justice Stephen Breyer discusses the dynamics on the Supreme Court, his role and view on sentencing reform and Citizens United, and how American democracy is strengthened by our understanding of the legal thinking of other nations.

  • Science & Tech

    Cruft Laboratory goes to war

    Harvard’s Cruft High Tension Laboratory was used in World War I as the Navy School for Radio Electricians. By World War II it was again called into service, this time assisting in the development of a torpedo that used acoustic technology to navigate toward an underwater submarine.

  • Nation & World

    Playing without rules

    Eugen Dimant, who studies corruption in sports, discusses the implications of charges on Monday by the World Anti-Doping Agency that Russia has a massive, state-run doping operation in its athletic programs.

  • Campus & Community

    A.R.T. names new executive director

    Diane Quinn has been named executive director of the American Repertory Theater, Harvard University and the Board of Trustees of the A.R.T. announced on Nov. 9.

  • Nation & World

    Making government work

    Kennedy School initiative takes an unconventional, holistic approach to researching, designing, and implementing policy around international development.

  • Campus & Community

    Howard Green, regenerative medicine pioneer, dies at 90

    Howard Green, the George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), a pioneer in the science of skin regeneration, died on Oct. 31 at the age of 90 after having served HMS for 35 years.

  • Nation & World

    Using law to protect veterans

    Fifteen active-duty or veteran soldiers have matriculated at Harvard Law School this year. Among them is Anne Stark, who commanded a company that was responsible for the daily operations of a 500-soldier battalion.

  • Campus & Community

    Rollout of Science and Engineering Complex

    Harvard has filed its Institutional Master Plan Notification Form with the Boston Redevelopment Authority for the Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.

  • Campus & Community

    A shelter for homeless youth

    The nation’s first student-run overnight shelter for 18- to 24-year-olds is the brainchild of two Harvard graduates.

  • Health

    On top of the flu

    A team led by Harvard statistician Samuel Kou has devised a new system for tracking flu outbreaks in real time.

  • Arts & Culture

    A grain of creativity

    At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Futurefarmers combines art with agriculture, work with whimsy.

  • Nation & World

    Coffee with a cause

    Kennedy School student Andy Agaba has created a startup that he hopes will translate coffee’s popularity into support for African farmers.

  • Nation & World

    For growth, look to Africa

    African economies fared better than those in many regions during the global financial crisis and, despite the current slow worldwide growth, many firms there continue to grow more quickly than those in industrialized nations, according to the former president of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka.

  • Arts & Culture

    In praise of John Hope Franklin

    Speaking at Duke University, Harvard President Drew Faust praised scholar John Hope Franklin, citing his dedication to helping create the field of African-American history, and to reminding the nation of its troubled past and present.

  • Nation & World

    On MOOCs and more

    Provost Alan Garber issues a white paper on digital and residential education at Harvard.

  • Health

    Taking care on painkillers for kids

    Harvard addiction specialist on FDA’s OxyContin OK: We have to respond to both patients and population health, a tricky task.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘An important piece of the pie’

    Harvard’s Widener Library welcomed more than 500 staff members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for a fall celebration featuring conversation and pie.

  • Nation & World

    Battling religious illiteracy

    A Q&A with Professor Ali Asani, in advance of a visit to Harvard by religious leader Aga Khan, probes the worldwide erosion of pluralism when it comes to respecting beliefs.