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  • Campus & Community

    A onetime refugee aims high

    When she graduates from the Kennedy School with her master’s, onetime refugee Fadumo Dayib plans to run for president of Somalia, her homeland.

  • Campus & Community

    Photographs and memories

    Every Commencement at Harvard, the Yard fills with graduates and their families celebrating. But look closely in the front row, and you’ll see another jovial gathering. Press photographers from all over the region flock to the Yard to immortalize the regalia and traditions in Tercentenary Theatre. For the Boston press corps, noted for its collegiality,…

  • Campus & Community

    Ode to a venerable library

    Narrated by John Lithgow ’67, this visual love letter to libraries celebrates books and those who watch over them while marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard’s flagship library.

  • Campus & Community

    Finding HARMONY

    HARMONY — one of Phillips Brooks House Association’s more than 70 volunteer programs — provides instrumental and vocal instruction for children in the Cambridge Public Schools.

  • Health

    Confronting the creep of opioid abuse

    Specialists in care and policy came together at the Harvard Chan School to trade ideas on combating opioid abuse.

  • Arts & Culture

    Where next?

    Feature on jazz pianist Vijay Iyer as part of the Practice series.

  • Campus & Community

    When your calling comes calling

    Megan Diamond took a few years to decide on a path in public health. After working overseas investigating health in Africa, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health graduate is looking forward to continuing her work in global health.

  • Arts & Culture

    Down the rabbit hole at Houghton

    “Such A Curious Dream! Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is on view from May 20 through Sept. 5 at Houghton Library.

  • Campus & Community

    United in grief and action

    Harvard students with ties to Nepal have joined a multicampus response to the devastation wrought by two major earthquakes.

  • Campus & Community

    Ahead of her time

    Saheela Ibraheem has always been ahead of her time and is graduating from Harvard College this spring at just 20, a neurobiology concentrator who is looking forward to pursuing a career in academia.

  • Campus & Community

    Strong enrollment for Class of 2019

    Nearly 81 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2019 plan to enroll in August. Last year, 80.9 percent matriculated; 81 percent did so the year before. The last time Harvard’s yield on admitted students reached these levels was 1969 for the Class of 1973.

  • Science & Tech

    Why more ‘hotspots’ aren’t so cool

    A new study published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology reports that the number of ecosystem hotspots in Massachusetts has increased over the past decade, with more and more popping up in metro Boston.

  • Arts & Culture

    A movie as a mirror

    Three young Harvard alumni explain the genesis and the process of their making the hit film “Whiplash.”

  • Campus & Community

    Seal of approval

    Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.

  • Campus & Community

    A new dean for SEAS

    Francis J. Doyle III, a distinguished scholar in chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been appointed the next dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and will take the reins on Aug. 1.

  • Health

    Changing the way genomes work

    In the Wyss Institute’s inaugural podcast “Disruptive,” host Terrence McNally spoke with Pamela Silver and George Church about today’s breakthroughs in technology and modifications to an organism’s genome that can be conducted more cheaply, efficiently, and effectively than ever before.

  • Campus & Community

    A Crimson kind of town

    Amid a discussion probing inequality, the Your Harvard series celebrates the University’s ties to Chicago.

  • Campus & Community

    Life under the lights and in the lab

    Talented actress and singer Elizabeth Leimkuhler divided her time at Harvard between her love for the stage and her love for all creatures, great and small.

  • Science & Tech

    A better sense of place

    Alyssa Goodman, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, will give a talk titled “Lost Without Longitude” on Thursday at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.

  • Campus & Community

    Not your average science fair

    At the fourth annual School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Design and Project Fair, hundreds of students representing 18 Harvard courses presented projects.

  • Health

    Leaving a beautiful scar

    Feature on surgeon and violinist Terry Buchmiller as part of the Practice series.

  • Health

    At Medical School, a late bloomer

    Afamefuna Nduaguba, a Nigerian immigrant, overcame early struggles at Roxbury Community College to gain a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and now an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

  • Arts & Culture

    Robert Darnton closes the book

    A historian, digital library pioneer, and champion of books, Robert Darnton will depart Harvard early this summer, giving up his post as University Librarian to resume a life of full-time scholarship.

  • Nation & World

    Medal of Honor moment

    Three recipients of the nation’s highest military award ― all Vietnam veterans ― toured Harvard’s Memorial Church during a visit on May 8.

  • Nation & World

    Europe’s calmer side

    A Harvard Summer School course will take a novel approach to European history, examining centuries of violence through the lens of peace.

  • Science & Tech

    Finding problems, designing solutions

    The controlled chaos of the fourth annual Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Design and Project Fair on May 6 offered a taste of the wide range of projects SEAS developed during the school year.

  • Health

    Improved accuracy in genome editing

    A team of scientists has engineered a form of the genome-editing protein Cas9 that can be controlled by a small molecule and offers improved DNA specificity.

  • Campus & Community

    Scholarship of things

    Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s collections defy easy categorization. Consider, she said, the tortilla.

  • Science & Tech

    Saving the digital record

    Changing with the times as the world moves from paper to digital, the Harvard Library has adopted forensic techniques to save material stored on obsolete formats.

  • Nation & World

    Uncertain forecast for Social Security

    A new study has found that the financial health of Social Security, the program millions of Americans have relied on for decades as a crucial part of their income, has been dramatically overstated.