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  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    Twenty team finalists named in Deans’ Challenges

    Harvard University announced 20 student-led teams on Monday as finalists in four Deans’ Challenges focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, the food system, and innovation in sports.

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson holds off Brown, 72-62, shares Ivy title

    The Harvard men’s basketball team did its part with a 72-62 win over Brown Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion and Dartmouth returned the favor, upsetting Yale 59-58 to give the Crimson a share of the Ivy League championship and force a one-game playoff to decide the Ancient Eight’s bid to the NCAA tournament.

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s basketball suffers setback to Yale, 62-52

    Steve Moundou-Missi posted a double-double, scoring 21 points and grabbing 10 rebounds, but the Harvard men’s basketball team fell to Yale in front of a sold-out Lavietes Pavilion crowd Friday evening, 62-52.

  • Campus & Community

    Remembering, and returning to, Selma

    Harvard President Drew Faust delivered Morning Prayers on Friday, offering those gathered in Appleton Chapel for the solemn service a deeply personal reflection on her experience with the Civil Rights Movement 50 years ago.

  • Campus & Community

    Making the most of meals

    Harvard University recently launched an effort to address chronic hunger among its neighbors in Cambridge and Boston by partnering with the local nonprofit Food for Free to donate nearly 2,000 nutritious meals each week to families in need.

  • Campus & Community

    Crowd of Fulbrights

    For the second year in a row, Harvard is the leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, with 34 students ― 22 from the College, 12 in total from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, Graduate School of Design, and Graduate School of Education — receiving the prestigious grants.

  • Health

    Ebola: A long way from over

    The Ebola epidemic is waning, but experts at a Harvard Medical School conference said the fight against the disease should be carried on until the last patient is cured, until more is known about the virus, and until local health care systems are robust enough to withstand another outbreak.

  • Campus & Community

    Into the finals

    Ten student teams have been named finalists for the 2015 President’s Challenge, Harvard President Drew Faust announced.

  • Health

    Putting health in context

    Panelists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examined social disparities that make some people more likely to end up sick than others.

  • Arts & Culture

    A literary colossus

    The new Murty Classical Library of India from Harvard University Press, aiming for 500 volumes over the next century, will reveal to the world a “colossal Indian past” of multilanguage literary history from as far back as two millennia.

  • Nation & World

    After Ferguson, the ripples across Harvard

    Students across Harvard channel energy and anger from last semester’s “Black Lives Matter” protests into a call for discussions and changes at home.

  • Campus & Community

    Ice capades

    The Harvard men’s and women’s hockey teams closed out exciting regular seasons, and head for the playoffs.

  • Health

    March mammal madness

    An assistant professor of evolutionary biology, Katie Hinde is also the creator of Mammal March Madness, a tournament that emulates the college basketball playoffs and pits species against each other in simulated combat.

  • Science & Tech

    Focus on food

    Twenty-two faculty members presented seven-minute lightning lectures on research and realities involving food.

  • Health

    Possible progress against Parkinson’s

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at McLean Hospital have taken what they describe as an important step toward using the implantation of stem cell-generated neurons as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease.