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  • Science & Tech

    Playing the ‘envelope game’

    Harvard researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind model, dubbed the “envelope game,” that can help researchers to understand not only why humans evolved to be cooperative but why people evolved to cooperate in a principled way.

  • Arts & Culture

    A.O. Scott reviews himself

    In a question-and-answer interview, New York Times film critic and Harvard alumnus A.O. Scott explains his craft, and how he came to it.

  • Health

    Obesity epidemic needs new approach

    Researchers call the notion that obesity is driven by either personal choice or the environment a false dichotomy, and suggest that these competing perspectives be merged to show the reciprocal relationship between the individual and the places he or she lives and eats.

  • Science & Tech

    Mysterious link between galaxy and black hole

    A new study of football-shaped collections of stars called elliptical galaxies provides insights into the connection between a galaxy and its black hole. This new research was designed to address a controversy in the field.

  • Nation & World

    A different kind of drug research

    In a question-and-answer session, the leaders of a Radcliffe Institute seminar on America’s long “war on drugs” shared why they are looking back at history and ahead for fresh answers.

  • Science & Tech

    Less corporate, more mindful

    Harvard Law School grad and former Pixar CFO Lawrence Levy was on campus to talk about leaving corporate life to promote the benefits of meditation with his nonprofit Juniper Foundation.

  • Campus & Community

    Grasping a rung on the ladder

    The Rev. Jonathan Walton spent close to two weeks in January taking part in the Mamelodi Initiative, an education and community-enrichment program co-founded several years ago by Harvard graduate Richard Kelley ’10. The program helps prepare students for college.

  • Arts & Culture

    Slavery’s lost lives, found

    Historian Richard Dunn talks about his new book, a sweeping historical analysis of life on two plantations in Jamaica and Virginia across the final decades of slavery.

  • Campus & Community

    Covering the snow

    Photo gallery: Harvard staff members keep the campus running throughout record snowfalls.

  • Arts & Culture

    Toward total war

    Experts on World War I gathered for a conference on the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century.

  • Science & Tech

    Discovering ‘star nurseries’

    In a quest to find mismatched star pairs known as extreme mass-ratio binaries, Harvard astronomers have discovered a new class of binary stars, in which one star is fully formed while the other is still in its infancy. The discovery of these stellar twins could provide invaluable insight into the formation and evolution of massive…

  • Health

    Women with heart risk

    Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States, deadlier than all forms of cancer combined. The good news is that up to 90 percent of heart disease may be preventable.

  • Campus & Community

    Eva Longoria named Artist of the Year

    Actress , businesswoman, and philanthropist Eva Longoria has been named Harvard University’s 2015 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 11

    On Feb. 11, the Faculty Council voted to approve legislation regarding the affirmation of the honor code and heard a proposal from the Standing Committee on Dramatics to establish a concentration in Theater, Dance, and Media. They also met with Provost Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.

  • Campus & Community

    Rulan Chao Pian

    Rulan Chao Pian was a true cosmopolitan, a woman who crossed boundaries with quiet courage and grace. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during a period when her father, the Chinese linguist and composer Yuen Ren Chao, taught at Harvard, she spent most of her childhood in various cities in China as well as in Paris, returning…

  • Arts & Culture

    Unmasking minstrelsy

    A new exhibition at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library, containing items from the Harvard Theatre Collection in Houghton Library, offers visitors a disturbing look at the racist history and enduring legacy of blackface minstrelsy.

  • Campus & Community

    With music as his muse

    The newly renovated Barker Arts Café, brainchild of Diana Sorensen and the Humanities Project, aims to be a bohemian locus of student activity and conversation around the arts and humanities at Harvard College, and it is succeeding. Miles Hewitt, a sophomore English concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is a student musician who performed his original work…

  • Science & Tech

    An exchange in ideas and culture

    Harvard and Brazilian students spent 10 days visiting sustainability-related sites around São Paulo as part of a field course sponsored by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the University of São Paulo.

  • Campus & Community

    Renewing Winthrop House

    The renewal process is beginning for Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s oldest undergraduate dorms.

  • Campus & Community

    Snow way this continues

    Around Harvard these days, the talk among administrators and facilities managers isn’t about the last snowstorm, as punishing it was. And it isn’t about the one before that, or the one before that. It’s about the next one.

  • Science & Tech

    Support for seven from president’s climate fund

    Seven research projects aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change using the levers of law, policy, and economics, as well as public health and science, have been awarded grants in the inaugural year of President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.

  • Arts & Culture

    Dimensions of war, including peace

    A new Harvard-wide seminar program, slated for three years, takes on a constellation of interdisciplinary issues around violence and nonviolence.

  • Campus & Community

    Leading man

    Hasty Pudding Theatricals honored Chris Pratt on Friday as its 2015 Man of the Year.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Campaign hits milestone

    The Harvard Campaign has raised $5 billion as of the end of last year to support the University and its programs.

  • Campus & Community

    Lauding journalism’s ‘watchdog role’

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard presented the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence to documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, and the I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award to broadcast journalist Amy Goodman.

  • Nation & World

    The makeover of Mexico City

    With Harvard experts helping, clever and dynamic Mexico City is dealing with global megacity challenges like traffic and housing, and could be a template for a flexible, functioning urbanism of the future.

  • Campus & Community

    Seriously funny

    Harvard student comics just flew in from the coast, and, man, are their arms tired.

  • Campus & Community

    Record 37,305 apply to College

    A record 37,305 students have applied for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2019.

  • Campus & Community

    Ice to entice

    Amid festivities, Harvard Skate opens its popular outdoor rink for another season.

  • Nation & World

    2016 issues: Voter anger, distrust

    Public opinion analyst Peter Hart sizes up the country’s mood and the primary field during a talk at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy.