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  • Health

    Smarter by the minute, sort of

    New research from Harvard and MIT shows that different cognitive skills peak at different times in lifespan.

  • Science & Tech

    Keys to a split-second slime attack

    Researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and from universities in Chile, Costa Rica, and Brazil have been studying the secret power of the velvet worm.

  • Nation & World

    Netanyahu, in the driver’s seat

    Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Walt assesses the Israeli election, in which Benjamin Netanyahu was triumphant.

  • Nation & World

    A siren call to action

    Professor Jessica E. Stern, a leading terrorism expert, talks about the growing number of young, middle-class Westerners leaving home to join the Islamic State.

  • Science & Tech

    Colleges have ‘special’ role in fighting climate change

    Harvard President Drew Faust tells an audience at Tsinghua University in Beijing that universities have a unique and critical role to play in combatting climate change.

  • Nation & World

    America, still at top

    Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye talks about America’s future as a global superpower in the 21st century.

  • Campus & Community

    A celebration in Beijing

    Harvard President Drew Faust joined more than 430 alumni, faculty, and friends in Beijing on Sunday to celebrate the University’s long and growing ties to China.

  • Science & Tech

    Greener delivery?

    The Gazette asked Henry Lee, an authority on electric cars and the Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center, about the opportunity for the Postal Service to improve its environmental footprint — and perhaps spark broader automotive changes — through a more fuel-efficient replacement for the…

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s basketball receives No. 13 seed in NCAA tournament

    The Harvard men’s basketball team, with a No. 13 seed, will play No. 4 North Carolina on Thursday in the NCAA tournament.

  • Campus & Community

    Dancing again!

    The Harvard men’s basketball team is going dancing again after defeating Yale Saturday afternoon, 53-51, in a one-game playoff at The Palestra to decide the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s hockey heads to Frozen Four

    After beating Quinnipiac, Harvard (26-5-3) moves on to face the No. 2 seed Boston College Eagles in the Frozen Four on March 20 at Riddler Arena in Minneapolis, Minn.

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s hockey hosts Quinnipiac in NCAA Quarterfinals

    The NCAA quarterfinals will be streamed live and for free on the Ivy League Digital Network. Fans can access live stats here, as well.

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s hockey downs Yale, 3-2, in quarterfinals

    The Harvard men’s hockey team took the first step toward advancing in the ECAC tournament when they downed Yale Friday at Ingalls Rink, 3-2, in the first game of the quarterfinals.

  • Science & Tech

    Sculptor finds physics a welcoming space

    Sculptor Kim Bernard, known for her spinning, swaying, bouncing, moving creations, is artist-in-residence in the Physics Department.

  • Campus & Community

    Earning a bachelor’s degree the new way

    Jonathan Haber documented his year of studying philosophy, detailing his experience completing the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree using Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, and other forms of free learning.

  • Health

    Brains or skin?

    A protein that is necessary for the formation of the vertebrate brain has been identified by researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Boston Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with scientists from Oxford and Rio de Janeiro.

  • Campus & Community

    Day of destiny

    Despite the lingering snow in the Yard, Housing Day was in full effect on Thursday as freshmen learned where among the 12 undergraduate House communities they will live, study, and form friendships over the next three years.

  • Campus & Community

    New VP for public affairs and communications

    Paul Andrew has been appointed the University’s vice president for public affairs and communications, President Drew Faust announced today. As vice president, Andrew will guide the University’s work not only in communications but also in public affairs, including government and community relations, as well as the digital domain.

  • Campus & Community

    One-game playoff with NCAA bid at stake

    Collegiate athletics’ oldest rivals will meet at the famed Palestra with an NCAA tournament berth on the line as the Harvard men’s basketball team and Yale square off in a one-game playoff Saturday.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon, 84

    Legendary Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Walter J. Salmon, M.B.A. ’54, D.B.A. ’60, long one of the world’s leading experts on retailing, retail distribution, and marketing, died on March 8 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from complications of a stroke.

  • Science & Tech

    Staying power for shale gas

    The shale gas boom, which has transformed domestic and global energy markets, is still in its infancy, according to the chair of Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

  • Campus & Community

    Lessons in the power of theater

    The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and Harvard’s Public School Partnerships brought local students to campus to view, and share thoughts on, A.R.T.’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3).”

  • Arts & Culture

    Making print modern

    In an age of bits and bytes and pixels and text on screens, Harvard Design Magazine — relaunched in a new format last year ― fervently embraces the thingness of print, the quotidian actuality of paper and ink.

  • Arts & Culture

    Revealed in verse

    Henri Cole is working on a new collection of poems while a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

  • Nation & World

    Explaining ‘Capital’

    Acclaimed French economist Thomas Piketty discusses his landmark text, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” one year after its publication in English.

  • Campus & Community

    The magic to breaking down barriers

    Shaun Harper, executive director of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, addressed “Fostering an Inclusive Campus Environment: From Magical Thinking to Strategy and Intentionality” as the inaugural presenter for the Harvard College Visiting Scholar Program on March 5.

  • Campus & Community

    Hidden Spaces: Where time stands still

    Harvard Medical School’s light-filled Gordon Hall reflects how students once learned.

  • Arts & Culture

    The wrong way forward

    In May, Matt Aucoin’s “Crossing” will premiere with the American Repertory Theater as part of the theater’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

  • Health

    The teeth tell a tale

    A new study shows that the teeth of early hominins grew unlike those of either modern humans or apes, suggesting that neither can serve as a useful proxy for estimating the age or developmental progression of juvenile fossils.

  • Health

    Case of the rotting mummies

    Chilean preservationists have turned to a Harvard scientist with a record of solving mysteries around threatened cultural artifacts.