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  • Science & Tech

    Unveiling the ancient climate of Mars

    The high seas of Mars may never have existed. According to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars, a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water drainage and erosion features seen today.

  • Health

    Vital genes in fat production found

    Scientists at Harvard Stem Cell Institute have found a way to both make more energy-burning human brown fat cells and make the cells themselves more active, a discovery that could have therapeutic potential for diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases.

  • Arts & Culture

    Complicated legacy

    A Harvard Law School scholar reflects on the legacy of the 800-year-old Magna Carta.

  • Campus & Community

    Science, on the edge

    Cambridge eighth-graders immersed themselves in science’s future during their visit to Harvard.

  • Arts & Culture

    Compelled to create art

    Unfulfilled as a lawyer, Robin Kelsey took a leap and began a career in photography and teaching. Today he leads Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture.

  • Campus & Community

    A new dean debuts

    Douglas W. Elmendorf, former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, was introduced on Thursday as the new dean of the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Health

    A dearth of nutrition in school lunches

    About 200 people interested in improving the quality of meals served in America’s public schools gathered at Harvard to discuss topics ranging from getting wholesome food into schools to institutional barriers.

  • Campus & Community

    Elmendorf to lead Kennedy School

    Douglas W. Elmendorf, former Harvard professor and director of the Congressional Budget Office, will become dean of the Harvard Kennedy School in January.

  • Nation & World

    Insights on where we learn

    Four-day Harvard conference focuses on academic spaces, and how to improve them.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard University: Year in Pictures 2014-2015

    Harvard University captures some of its most memorable moments from the 2014-15 academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    They get the job done

    Sixty-four people who selflessly keep the University running are this year’s Harvard Heroes, for demonstrating unwavering excellence within their departments and Schools.

  • Science & Tech

    Injectable device delivers nano-view of the brain

    An international team of researchers has developed a method of fabricating nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be injected via syringe. The scaffolds can then be connected to devices and used to monitor neural activity, stimulate tissues, or even promote regeneration of neurons.

  • Campus & Community

    A brighter future together

    A young students’ leadership group from Boston celebrates its success stories during a commencement gathering at Harvard.

  • Nation & World

    A clearer role for MOOCs

    Online courses are unlikely to take over higher education, says Lawrence Bacow, member of the Harvard Corporation and former president of Tufts University, but they can help revitalize learning.

  • Science & Tech

    A new grasp on robotic glove

    Having achieved promising results in proof-of-concept prototyping and experimental testing, a soft robotic glove under development by Conor Walsh and a team of engineers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering could someday help people who have lost hand motor control regain some…

  • Arts & Culture

    Seeding journalism’s future

    Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson on coaching the next generation of journalism leaders.

  • Campus & Community

    Big boost for SEAS

    The Harvard community celebrates John A. Paulson’s $400 million gift to boost the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the University’s largest donation ever.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard receives its largest gift

    John A. Paulson gives $400 million to Harvard to endow the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the largest donation in the University’s history.

  • Arts & Culture

    Karplus on film

    More than 75 years after being expelled from his homeland by the Nazis, Austria-born Martin Karplus, a Harvard theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate, returned to Vienna in May in triumph — and as a film star. The mid-June American release of “Martin Karplus — The Invisible Made Visible” yet to be announced.

  • Science & Tech

    Cooking up cognition

    A new study suggests that many of the cognitive capacities that humans use for cooking — a preference for cooked food, the ability to understand the transformation of raw food into cooked, and even the ability to save and transport food to cook it — are shared with chimpanzees.

  • Science & Tech

    Accelerator Fund boosts Harvard tech startups

    At Harvard, the Accelerator Fund boosts technologies in engineering and physical sciences, and helps launch companies in robotics, 3-D printing, and materials discovery.

  • Campus & Community

    Three appointed as investigators

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute appoints Levi Garraway, Pardis Sabeti, and Tobias Walther as investigators.

  • Campus & Community

    Disabilities, pushed to the side

    Students with disabilities explain how they got to Harvard in a book by Professor Thomas Hehir, Ed.D. ’90, and co-authors, including Laura Schifter, Ed.D. ’14, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hehir and Schifter shared some of the stories in a recent talk at the Ed Portal.

  • Campus & Community

    Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Following a morning panel with legal scholars on the major trends and precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received the annual Radcliffe Medal.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Only the beginning’

    With cameos by former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, world-famous soprano Renée Fleming, and even Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman ’03, Harvard’s 364th Commencement could not be described as boring.

  • Arts & Culture

    Seeking ethical clarity

    A group of students from China, Japan, and the United States — including four from Harvard — grappled with ethical concerns in a discussion led by Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel.

  • Campus & Community

    No time to rest, Patrick says

    Commencement speaker Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, called on graduates to follow talk with action on the most urgent problems of the day.

  • Campus & Community

    At Commencement, the parents’ perspective

    Narrated by her proud parents, this video celebrates one of the greatest milestones yet for Katherine Kulik ’15, and those who guided her along the way to her graduation from Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Five Harvard Overseers elected

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association today announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

  • Campus & Community

    Sea of Crimson, canopy of green

    The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard.