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  • Health

    Butter’s benefits melt away

    Harvard researchers take a 2014 paper to task and find that butter isn’t one of the good guys. Get your fats from nuts and vegetable oils instead.

  • Science & Tech

    Political climate, changed

    Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to institute a cap-and-trade program in the Asian giant by 2017. Harvard China Project leader Michael McElroy discussed the announcement and its potential effects on both climate legislation in the United States and on future climate talks in Paris.

  • Nation & World

    Doctors in a hard place

    Increasingly, says a report by Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, doctors can be charged for giving medical care to alleged terrorists.

  • Arts & Culture

    A childlike vision artfully refined

    A new exhibit at Houghton Library spans the many pursuits of the British artist Walter Crane.

  • Health

    A strong start toward good health: Good choices

    Lifestyle choices remain the best way to prevent heart attack, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and cognitive decline, panelists agreed.

  • Nation & World

    Europe’s crisis of conscience

    Panelists discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis as millions of Syrian refugees fleeing civil war find disparate receptions in European nations.

  • Campus & Community

    Five recognized as Harvard College Professors

    Michael D. Smith, Edgerly Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced five new Harvard College Professors in 2015.

  • Science & Tech

    Green storage for green energy grows cleaner

    Harvard scientists and engineers have demonstrated an improved flow battery that can store electricity from intermittent energy sources. The battery contains nontoxic compounds, inexpensive materials, and can be cost-effective for both residential and commercial use.

  • Health

    Hope against disease targeting children

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers studying spinal muscular atrophy have found molecular changes that help trigger the genetic disease in children.

  • Nation & World

    The last companions

    A Harvard Divinity School program helps teach chaplains how to befriend and comfort the sick and the dying.

  • Science & Tech

    Greening the electric grid with gas turbines

    A new Harvard study pokes holes in the belief that huge quantities of storage will be needed before clean, renewable sources can make a significant dent in greenhouse-gas emissions from electricity generation.

  • Science & Tech

    Ups and downs of sea level

    Professor Jerry Mitrovica shed light on the dynamics of sea level rise in a talk at the Geological Lecture Hall.

  • Arts & Culture

    Testament to Manchukuo

    A growing Harvard collection documents life and propaganda in the controversial, short-lived Asian state of Manchukuo.

  • Campus & Community

    Endowment posts 5.8% return

    Harvard University announced today that its endowment posted a 5.8 percent return and was valued at $37.6 billion, an all-time high, for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

  • Nation & World

    What ‘The Prize’ taught Newark, and its author

    Harvard EdCast interviews Dale Russakoff, author of “The Prize.” The Washington Post reporter, who looked at the troubled education reform story of Newark, N.J., reflected on what can be learned from its failure to provide system-wide reform.

  • Campus & Community

    Troubling findings on sexual assault

    In tandem with the release of findings from a national survey of college students about sexual assault, Harvard’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault made the University’s data public Monday, including results that paint a troubling picture of sexual misconduct on campus. President Drew Faust called the survey results “deeply disturbing” and said…

  • Nation & World

    Measuring assimilation

    U.S. immigrants today are assimilating as quickly or quicker than past generations of immigrants, according to a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

  • Nation & World

    Pope brings ‘Francis effect’ to U.S.

    Harvard Divinity School faculty will attend two of Pope Francis’ stops during his six-day visit to the United States Sept. 22-27.

  • Campus & Community

    Honorable guests

    Memorial Church hosted a private ceremony for more than half of the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

  • Science & Tech

    Climate test for forests

    New research on northeastern forests is examining how the earlier arrival of warm weather might clash with genetic programming tuned to lengthening days and the duration and depth of winter cold.

  • Arts & Culture

    History in the making

    A new collection of materials donated to Harvard Library from the José María Castañé Foundation is keenly focused on major conflicts and transformative events of the 20th century, including the Russian Revolution, the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the Cold War.

  • Arts & Culture

    Images to act on

    Kellie Jones, an associate professor in art history and archaeology at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, discussed “Civil/Rights/Act: Art and Activism in the 1960s” as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois colloquia this fall.

  • Nation & World

    Learning about learning: Creating a connection

    A newly integrated HarvardX and HILT research effort will probe residential and online learning, and the places in between.

  • Campus & Community

    Q&A with Harvard President Drew Faust

    Harvard President Drew Faust sat down with The Gazette recently to discuss the University landscape for the coming academic year, including Harvard’s priorities for 2015-16 as well as some of the challenges ahead.

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  • Nation & World

    MOOCs on the move

    As MOOCs grow in influence and sophistication, they’re no longer simply reimagined in a Harvard classroom or even in a nearby studio. Recently, transforming a residential course — going digital via HarvardX — included filming in far-flung Rwanda and Haiti.

  • Arts & Culture

    A wall of color, a window to the past

    Curious visitors who turn left off the Harvard Art Museums’ elevators on the building’s fourth floor are greeted by the Forbes Pigment Collection, a floor-to-ceiling wall of color compiled from about 1910 to 1944 by the former director of the Fogg Museum.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard hosting HUBweek

    As one of four sponsors, Harvard will be a major player in HUBweek, hosting 18 presentations celebrating Boston area innovation.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 16

    On Sept. 16 the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian for the fall term of 2015 and a Parliamentarian for the spring term of 2016. They also heard a presentation on the General Education review.

  • Campus & Community

    Remembering James Rothenberg

    Harvard President Drew Faust and William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, invite the community on Sept. 26 to celebrate the life of the late James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70.

  • Health

    ‘Achilles’ heel’ of sickle cell disease?

    Gene-editing study reveals pathway that could help short circuit sickle cell disease.