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  • Nation & World

    A powerful convergence

    Harvard faculty members from several disciplines gathered to share thoughts about their work at the 2013 Kumbh Mela religious festival in India.

  • Campus & Community

    Innovative faculty research receives support

    Five winners have been named as recipients of this year’s Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research awards. Now in its second year, the challenge is designed to acknowledge and support some of the most innovative research being done by Harvard faculty in the natural and social sciences.

  • Health

    E-cigarette battle heats up

    In a talk titled “Can E-cigarette Regulation Protect the Public’s Health? Making Sense of the Science,” public health experts speaking at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Thursday said they worry the battery-powered smokes may provide a dangerous gateway for teens and others to start smoking.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 15

    On April 15 the members of the council met with the president and asked and answered questions as representatives of the faculty.

  • Campus & Community

    For those with a head for history

    A sample in images from the abundance of hats — Panama, pillbox, porkpie, and more — in Harvard’s holdings.

  • Arts & Culture

    The sacred middle

    Harvey Cox, the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the Divinity School, talks about his new book, “How to Read the Bible.”

  • Science & Tech

    Going the distance with microlensing method

    NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known, according to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

  • Arts & Culture

    What they overcame

    Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. took part in a question-and-answer session with Harvard President Drew Faust as part of the William Belden Noble Lectures.

  • Nation & World

    The Ferguson conversation

    In the wake of the Ferguson tumult, an Askwith Forum panel examines ways to promote discussions on race, and to craft solutions during a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

  • Arts & Culture

    The importance of being earnest

    A Harvard senior creates a student-run show for his senior project. The work grew out of his special concentration in theater arts and performance. “OSCAR at The Crown and the love that dare not speak its name” runs April 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and April 17 at 10:30 p.m.

  • Campus & Community

    Measured impact

    According to the University’s Sustainability Report, released online today, various conservation measures and behavior changes have already contributed to 60 percent of Harvard’s progress in meeting its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2016.

  • Arts & Culture

    Thinking backward

    Professor Carlo Ginzburg of UCLA will deliver Harvard’s Tanner Lectures starting April 15.

  • Science & Tech

    Sizing up climate change

    Experts on energy, the environment, and climate change gathered at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre Monday to discuss how governments and universities can help meet the challenge.

  • Science & Tech

    Making sustainability part of the business

    Unilever CEO Paul Polman outlined the multinational corporation’s commitment to environmental sustainability during a talk at Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center on April 10 as part of Climate Week events at Harvard.

  • Nation & World

    Night of terror

    The Rev. Clark Olsen, S.T.B. ’59, who witnessed the 1965 Selma, Ala., murder that accelerated passage of the Voting Rights Act, launched a two-day Harvard look back at the Civil Rights era.

  • Health

    You are when you eat

    A new study may help explain why glucose tolerance — the ability to regulate blood-sugar levels — is lower at dinner than at breakfast for healthy people and why shift workers are at increased risk of diabetes.

  • Campus & Community

    Frenk named new president of University of Miami

    Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will become the next president of the University of Miami, it was announced today. Frenk, the T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development (a joint appointment with the Harvard Kennedy School), will step down at the end of August…

  • Campus & Community

    Seeking answers on campus sexual assault

    Harvard’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault is launching a survey of the student body to determine the prevalence of sexual assault, harassment, and related misconduct at Harvard in an effort to not only gain a better understanding of the magnitude of the problem, but to inform efforts at prevention.

  • Nation & World

    Closing the information gap

    Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential nominee, visited Harvard Law School on April 10 for a Q&A session hosted by Dean Martha Minow. He encouraged a renewed civility in politics and society, emphasizing the difference one person can make through serving others.

  • Nation & World

    Ingenuity in public health

    Inaugural winner Chelsea Clinton was on hand as the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recognized Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes with this year’s Next Generation Award.

  • Health

    Gates Foundation CEO challenges students

    Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shared the “Big Bet,” an ambitious series of goals the Gateses issued in their annual letter. Desmond-Hellman challenged Harvard Chan students to help make the bet pay off during her talk as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture series.

  • Arts & Culture

    Tangled roots

    The story of “Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba” is one of discovery and rediscovery. For the 30 artists represented, it illustrates the uncovering of an artistic heritage, and a lineage that was long denied. As part of “Drapetomania,” the Cooper Gallery is also presenting a Cuban film series, with screenings on Thursdays…

  • Arts & Culture

    Poetic wandering

    This walking tour pairs classic Harvard landmarks with a sampling of the poets connected to the University — all in honor of National Poetry Month.

  • Science & Tech

    Bullish on clean energy

    Physicist Amory Lovins outlined a path to a clean-energy future in the United States during a talk at the Kennedy School.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘The Choice’ premiere

    Written approximately 20 years after Elie Wiesel was freed from imprisonment in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps, “The Choice” is having a staged reading at Sanders Theatre on Sunday. It marks a premiere for the recently rediscovered work.

  • Campus & Community

    Remembering Bill Crout

    At 10 a.m. on April 10, the Memorial Church will host a service in remembrance of William R. Crout, founder of the Paul Tillich Lectures.

  • Campus & Community

    The music never dies

    Rob Reider, an administrative coordinator with Harvard’s Campus Services, is also a longtime rocker.

  • Science & Tech

    A focus on food

    The Harvard Food Law Society and the Food Literacy Project hosted the “Just Food? Forum on Justice in the Food System” at Harvard Law School (HLS).

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Confronting Violence’ through arts and activism

    “Confronting Violence,” an April 9-10 conference at the Radcliffe Institute, will explore how activism and cultural change can affect public policy and reduce violence. It includes an exhibit, “Confronting Violence: Critical Approaches to American Comics and Video Games,” which can be viewed through April 17.

  • Arts & Culture

    Walking in Cuba

    A historian’s photographs expose the sedimentary layers of Cuba, a country in flux.