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  • 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.

  • Science & Tech

    Taking to the woods

    For a handful of Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, the January semester break included a rare treat — a visit to the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass.

  • Health

    Sick with measles, again

    Dyann Wirth, chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, discusses what’s behind the resurgence of measles in the United States.

  • Health

    Pinpointing danger in hypertension

    A Harvard endocrinologist was senior author on a study pinpointing the precise high blood pressure level and critical time when intervening was tied to a decrease in the risk of death.

  • Science & Tech

    A trap for greenhouse gas

    A team of researchers has developed a novel class of materials that enable a safer, cheaper, and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power-plant emissions.

  • Health

    Twice doomed?

    Growing evidence points to a role for volcanoes in dinosaur extinction, said planetary scientist Mark Richards in a Harvard lecture.

  • Health

    Unlocking fat

    A study by Emily Groopman ’14 shows that cooking helps to unlock the calories in fatty foods.

  • Campus & Community

    The case of the disappearing dishes

    Undergraduate and graduate students took part in jDesign, a four-day, hands-on Wintersession workshop that harnessed student energy and creativity to tackle real-world design problems — in this case, the loss of dishware from the University’s dining halls.

  • Health

    Walk like a man

    The fossilized hipbone of an ape called Sivapithecus is raising a host of new questions about whether the upright body plan of apes may have evolved multiple times.

  • Nation & World

    Death penalty, in retreat

    Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker is devoting her Radcliffe Fellowship year to working on a book with her brother about the past half-century’s experiment with the constitutional regulation of capital punishment in America.

  • Science & Tech

    Charged air

    For doctoral student Sarah Rugheimer, the study of atmosphere holds deep promise in the search for extrasolar life.

  • Nation & World

    The politics of jurisprudence

    New political science research from faculty at Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford University quantifies the political makeup of the nation’s judiciary.

  • Campus & Community

    Smith Campus Center, re-envisioned

    Harvard unveiled its initial design concepts for the new Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center during two open houses.

  • Campus & Community

    Rhythm and motion

    Here’s a sound and snapshot sample of Wintersession classes in action.

  • Campus & Community

    Robert Kirshner receives Wolf Prize

    Harvard’s Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70 will share the 2015 Wolf Prize in Physics with Professor James Bjorken of Stanford University. They will split the $100,000 award.

  • Science & Tech

    A lefty’s lament

    A southpaw science writer comes to terms with research on handedness by the Kennedy School’s Joshua Goodman.

  • Campus & Community

    Hamburger receives Anneliese Maier Research Award

    Jeffrey Hamburger, the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture and a world authority on the religious art of the Middle Ages, is among this year’s recipients of the Anneliese Maier Research Award.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 28

    On Jan. 28, the Faculty Council met to change the status of the Standing Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights to an instructional program committee.

  • Campus & Community

    Exploration, transformation

    The fifth annual Harvard College Wintersession featured a host of events, from print-making on clay tablets to yoga classes to programming featuring prominent alumni.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2015–16

    In accordance with the University’s rent policy, Harvard University Housing charges market rents. To establish the proposed rents for 2015–16, Jayendu Patel of Economic, Financial, & Statistical Consulting Services performed and endorsed the results of a regression analysis on three years of market rents for more than 2,900 apartments.

  • Campus & Community

    Snark and recreation

    “Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler livened up Harvard Square as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year.