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  • Nation & World

    U.S.-Cuba ties: In from the cold

    Harvard faculty members react to the surprising news from President Barack Obama that the United States plans to end 50 years of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba.

  • Nation & World

    Leading role for Murthy

    With Harvard’s Vivek Murthy confirmed as the next surgeon general, health experts shared their views on areas where his focus and influence are most needed.

  • Nation & World

    Grading 10 top world leaders

    The director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center evaluates a new survey of citizens from 30 countries, including China, and how they rank the performances of the world’s best-known political leaders.

  • Nation & World

    Deceiving with the truth

    A recent HKS and HBS working paper studies the art of leveraging the truth to gain the upper hand in negotiations.

  • Campus & Community

    A spark for young minds

    Harvard undergrads joined a showcase of work they helped develop as part of the Ed Portal’s mentoring program.

  • Science & Tech

    Back into the dark

    Harvard physicists look toward new frontiers as they anticipate the restart of the Large Hadron Collider and their ATLAS experiment in spring 2015.

  • Nation & World

    Getting schooled

    A recent Harvard Business School survey on U.S. competitiveness looks at how business is engaged with helping boost K-12 public education and whether these efforts are effective.

  • Nation & World

    Taming the ticking mind

    Author and economist Sendhil Mullainathan talks about the research behind “Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives.”

  • Science & Tech

    Where ideas trump devices

    At the annual CS50 Fair, students of history, literature, music, and more create tools to share knowledge across fields.

  • Campus & Community

    In racial protests, a continuing ripple effect

    As protests around the nation continued in the wake of decisions by grand juries in Missouri and New York not to indict police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men, hundreds of Harvard community members expressed their own anger, frustration, and desire for changes in the criminal justice system with a range of…

  • Campus & Community

    Pointing toward Athens 2.0

    Harvard will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Boston Globe for a new, weeklong festival of big ideas and bold solutions next October.

  • Campus & Community

    Diversity in religion

    Particularly at the holidays, managers need to be sensitive and aware, while welcoming diversity, speaker says.

  • Campus & Community

    Sacvan Bercovitch, 1933-2014

    Harvard’s Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar of Puritan America, dies at 81.

  • Arts & Culture

    Glimpsing Dublin from the wine-dark sea

    Humanities 10, a new two-semester offering, is a big class on the big books, with time out for small seminars.

  • Campus & Community

    977 admitted to Class of 2019 under Early Action

    Harvard College on Dec. 11 sent admission notifications to 977 prospective students through its Early Action program.

  • Health

    A cost of culture

    A new study, authored by Collin McCabe, a doctoral student in Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, suggests that increased exposure to disease has played an important role in the evolution of culture in both humans and non-human primates.

  • Science & Tech

    Creating ‘genomic origami’

    Researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3-D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene regulation, a kind of “genomic origami” that allows the same genome to produce different types of cells.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Dec. 10

    On Dec. 10 the members of the Faculty Council met in camera to discuss student disciplinary cases.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Lede’ing by example

    This past fall, more than a dozen Boston sixth- and seventh-graders got a taste of life as journalists. Participating in a program called Project Lede, the students learned just how much hard work goes into creating and publishing a newspaper, thanks to Project Lede founders who hail from Harvard and the University of Delaware.

  • Nation & World

    A mirror to coercion

    Alberto Mora, a top civilian lawyer for the U.S. Navy in the administration of President George W. Bush and an early critic of the CIA torture program, assesses the findings and conclusions of the newly released Senate Intelligence Committee report.

  • Arts & Culture

    A bittersweet confection

    Visual artist Kara Walker talks about “A Subtlety,” her provocative public art project staged at a defunct Domino sugar factory in Brooklyn last summer.

  • Health

    ‘Epidemics are optional’

    Expanded medical care could greatly reduce Ebola fatalities, says Paul Farmer of Partners In Health.

  • Campus & Community

    Discovering ‘detectives’ of science

    Howard Stone returned to Harvard to lead the annual holiday lecture at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with hundreds of family and community members in attendance.

  • Health

    Reproductive strategies

    When compared with a solitary strategy of producing offspring who then go on to produce their own offspring, a new Harvard study has found that eusociality is a high-risk, high-reward gamble.

  • Science & Tech

    Eyes on Orion

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Jonathan McDowell answers questions on the Orion test run and prospects for getting to Mars.

  • Arts & Culture

    A journey into illness

    Poet and memoirist Meghan O’Rourke is using her time as a Radcliffe Fellow to write “What’s Wrong With Me,” a chronicle of her struggles with autoimmune disease.

  • Campus & Community

    Leverett’s evolution

    Leverett House’s McKinlock Hall reopened to students at the beginning of the academic year after 15 months of reconstruction. McKinlock is the second completed project in the House renewal initiative,…

  • Science & Tech

    She made her mark

    Journalist Walter Isaacson and College students talk about the achievements and challenges for women in the field of computer science, including pioneer Grace Hopper.

  • Health

    A pill to shed fat?

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have taken what they describe as “the first step toward a pill that can replace the treadmill” for the control of obesity.

  • Nation & World

    Activating ‘mindshare’

    A national faculty survey produced by Higher Education Research Institute implies that changes in teaching may be afoot, as lecturers increasingly adopt student-centered and team-based teaching practices. In fact, this recalibration of the pedagogical universe is happening at Harvard, too.