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  • 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.

  • Nation & World

    The modern Buddhist minister

    The conference “Education and Buddhist Ministry: Whither — and Why?” was held at the Harvard Divinity School and marked a new undertaking for its Buddhist Ministry Initiative.

  • Campus & Community

    Great adventures

    Students in “The Humanities Colloquium: Essential Works 2” received an education both in and out of the classroom.

  • Science & Tech

    The era of climate responsibility

    At Harvard’s 10th annual Plant Biology Symposium, climate expert Chris Field talked about the need to evaluate environmental risks in the coming decades even as many people work to reduce climate-warming emissions.

  • Health

    Creatures of habit

    The motor cortex is critical to learn new skills, but may not be needed to perform them, a new Harvard study says.

  • Arts & Culture

    Saving the elephants

    Author chronicles how a system in which Myanmar’s elephants were made half-captive likely has ensured their survival.

  • Arts & Culture

    The roots of artistry

    A clever exhibit at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, designed by Graduate School of Design Professor Rosetta Elkin, is bringing organic beauty out of the shadows. Her installation highlights the root system of a white poplar.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘A completely new life was beckoning’

    Interview with Gerald Holton as part of the Experience series.

  • 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.