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  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘It seemed to me miraculous that you could actually hear Shakespeare or Keats speaking from the page’

    Interview with Professor Helen Vendler as part of the Experience series.

    Helen Vendler.
  • Campus & Community

    A decade of student impact

    Now in its 10th year, the Cordeiro Family Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Global Health and Health Policy has funded undergraduate research projects for more than 100 students. A celebratory program highlighted some of their accomplishments.

  • Science & Tech

    Reunion and reassessment

    Generations of concentrators in Environmental Science and Public Policy returned to Harvard for the first reunion involving the more than 20-year-old concentration.

  • Campus & Community

    Three faculty members receive NAS awards

    Catherine Dulac, Hopi Hoekstra, and Xiaowei Zhuang have received National Academy of Sciences awards.

  • Nation & World

    ‘Voices of Syria’

    Starting in May 2013, in two of Syria’s war-torn cities, specially trained operatives moved from door to door with a singular purpose: to ask questions. Vera Mironova, a graduate research fellow at Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, was one of the lead authors of the “Voices of Syria” project. She will discuss it today at noon…

  • Campus & Community

    Theater, Dance, and Media

    A new arts concentration will offer classes this fall, and students will be able to declare the concentration officially in December.

  • Arts & Culture

    The unheard melodies of speech

    During a talk at the Graduate School of Design, composer Steve Reich’s haunting “WTC 9/11” demonstrated the unique ability of sound to recall not only the defining moment of loss, but the trauma that continually threatens to erase it from memory.

  • Campus & Community

    Upward, onward, underwater

    Harvard runners training for the Boston Marathon found ways to train throughout this season’s record snowfall.

  • Nation & World

    A new office, a global audience

    In a question-and-answer session, HarvardX head Peter Bol outlines the challenges ahead for the online platform and for teaching and learning.