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  • Arts & Culture

    Breaking musical barriers

    In a visit to Harvard, Marin Alsop discussed some of the challenges she has faced as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard in Beijing

    During a historic visit to Beijing, Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture, “Universities and the Challenge of Global Climate Change,” to faculty and students at Tsinghua…

  • Science & Tech

    A quantum leap for women

    Step by step, a growing Harvard women’s student group is helping to change the male-dominated culture of computer science by creating fresh realities.

  • Campus & Community

    Karen Moore to lead Board of Overseers

    Karen Nelson Moore ’70, J.D. ’73, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, has been named president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. Diana Nelson ’84, chair of the board of Carlson, will serve as vice chair of the Overseers executive committee.

  • Campus & Community

    Guidelines for Harvard’s 364th Commencement

    A special notice regarding Harvard’s 364th Commencement Exercises, which will be held May 28.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held March 25

    On March 25 the members of the Faculty Council approved changes to the Handbook for Students for 2015-16. They also heard a review of human evolutionary biology and presentations from the Task Force on Sexual Harassment and from the University Benefits Committee. 



  • Arts & Culture

    A fountain of music

    As part of a course on music composition, Harvard students created original works inspired by objects in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Those compositions were recently brought to life by cellist Neil Heyde of London’s Royal Academy of Music at a concert held in the Calderwood Courtyard.

  • Arts & Culture

    Soccer’s versatile beauty

    Harvard course uses the game of soccer to explore the complexity of the humanities.

  • Science & Tech

    Where science meets creationism

    Professor David Montgomery’s most recent book explores an unexpected crossroads: the intersection of geology and the Bible.

  • Campus & Community

    An icy welcome

    Charles River, frozen into the spring, hampers Harvard’s crew season. Lightweight crew competitions were canceled for Saturday due to the icy conditions on the Charles. The men’s heavyweight crew will compete on April 4.

  • Campus & Community

    Target: Climate change

    Harvard will convene a panel at Sanders Theatre on April 13 to discuss the wide-ranging concerns surrounding climate change.

  • Nation & World

    For Jill Abramson, journalism comes full circle

    Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson talks about leaving daily journalism to teach at Harvard, where her career began.

  • Campus & Community

    Matching dreams

    Members of Harvard Medical School’s Class of 2015 tear open envelopes that reveal where they will spend the next three to seven years of their training in residency programs.

  • Health

    Healthy school lunches have to taste good, too

    School collaborations with a professionally trained chef to improve the taste of healthy meals significantly increased students’ consumption of fruits and vegetables, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  • Nation & World

    To be Buddhist monks at Harvard

    A growing number of monks are coming to Harvard Divinity School through the Ho Family Foundation Scholars program, which covers all tuition and living expenses for a year. They share their experiences and diverse backgrounds.

  • Health

    Hip correction

    A new study finds no connection between hip width and efficient locomotion, and suggests that scientists have long approached the problem in the wrong way.

  • Health

    Behind the measles outbreak

    Researchers have found that measles vaccine coverage among the exposed populations is far below that necessary to keep the virus in check. The study is the first to positively link measles vaccination rates and the ongoing outbreak.

  • Science & Tech

    Understanding common knowledge

    A new study examines how different kinds of shared beliefs can affect how people cooperate, and how people use common knowledge, a type of shared understanding, to coordinate their actions.

  • Arts & Culture

    Plotting her return

    Author ZZ Packer is spending her Radcliffe year working on her newest effort, a novel titled “The Thousands” that tracks the lives of several families following the Civil War through the American Indian campaigns in the Southwest.

  • Campus & Community

    A distinctive honor

    Sixty-three Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) employees from 36 departments — representing 2.5 percent of the FAS staff — were recognized at the sixth annual awards ceremony and reception, held in the faculty room of University Hall.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard comes up one shot short

    On a day full of upsets the 13th-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team seemed destined to knock off fourth-seeded North Carolina Thursday night, but Wesley Saunders 3-pointer at the buzzer was off the mark as the Tar Heels held off for a 67-65 victory.

  • 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.