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  • Campus & Community

    Departing SEAS Dean Murray reflects

    A Q&A with Cherry A. Murray, who will depart Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the end of December.

  • Nation & World

    Why college matters

    During a videotaped speech in Dallas, Harvard President Drew Faust explained why attending college remains so important for many after high school — and a group of seniors couldn’t agree more.

  • Health

    Preoccupied with life

    Harvard-affiliated surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explores big questions around end-of-life care in “Being Mortal.”

  • Health

    Birds everywhere

    “Birds of the World” opened in September as a permanent exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

  • Arts & Culture

    Making ‘The Friedkin Connection’ at Harvard

    A gift to the Harvard Library from William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director/producer of such films as “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” will mark a new kind of collection for Harvard — cinema memoir.

  • Nation & World

    The Islamic State of play

    Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman and Kristen Stilt joined NPR correspondent Deborah Amos to discuss the fast-moving ideological evolution and spread of the ISIS in the Middle East.

  • Nation & World

    Faust makes ‘the case for college’

    In the face of mounting concerns about the cost and value of college, higher education continues to be the most effective route to economic and personal success, Harvard President Drew Faust argued during an address in Dallas Friday to nearly 500 high school students, teachers, and guidance counselors.

  • Nation & World

    A closer look at ‘Who’s Choosin’ Who?’

    Melissa Harris-Perry, the host of the weekend news and political talk show that bears her name on MSNBC, addressed nearly 400 people at Radcliffe’s Knafel Center on Thursday for the Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture. Her topic: “Who’s Choosin’ Who? Race, Gender, and the New American Politics.”

  • Health

    Tackling blindness, deafness through neuroengineering

    The Bertarelli Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, a collaborative program between Harvard Medical School and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, has announced a new set of grants worth $3.6 million for five research projects.

  • Arts & Culture

    Is that Wallace Stevens?

    Helen Vendler joined a Woodberry Poetry Room event to celebrate the recent discovery of recordings of readings by Wallace Stevens circa 1954.

  • Nation & World

    From bad to worse?

    A Russian analyst talks about the deteriorating relationship between Washington and the Kremlin.

  • Nation & World

    Pocket change

    HBS Professor Sunil Gupta discusses Apple Pay’s foray into the crowded race to disrupt how we shop.

  • Campus & Community

    American Academy announces 234th class

    Harvard faculty members were among the 164 influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge on Oct. 11.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard in Mexico City

    Harvard alumni and friends gathered in Mexico City for the latest event in the Your Harvard series. President Drew Faust, faculty members, and local alumni celebrated the many connections shared by Harvard and Mexico, some dating back more than a century.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘I had the advantage of disadvantage’

    Interview with Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as part of the Experience series.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard rolls out plan for the future

    The Harvard Sustainability Plan, released today, sets a holistic vision and clear priorities for how the University will move toward an even healthier, more sustainable campus community. The five-year operational plan targets reductions in energy, water, and waste while also focusing on sustainable operations, culture change, and human health.

  • Science & Tech

    New evidence on Neanderthal mixing

    New research illuminates the mixing with Neanderthals in early human prehistory, narrowing the window of time when they crossbred to between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago.

  • Arts & Culture

    Cooper Gallery makes an entrance

    Architect and curator David Adjaye, co-curator Mariane Ibrahim-Lenhardt, art collector Jean Pigozzi, and Director Vera Grant led an open house and tour of the new Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, which will open this week.

  • Health

    Mixed results in report on concussions

    While most colleges and universities in the National Collegiate Athletic Association have created programs to help diagnose and treat concussions sustained by their athletes, many are not fully meeting the NCAA’s standards, according to new research.

  • Campus & Community

    Rowing toward the Head of the Charles

    Last Sunday at the Head of the Charles, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew, stroked by Elizabeth Fitzhenry ’15, completed the three-mile race in 16:59:69 ― good for eighth place in the women’s championship event.

  • Nation & World

    A ‘sitdown’ with Snowden

    By videoconference on Monday, Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who last year leaked more than 200,000 classified documents about U.S. surveillance efforts.

  • Campus & Community

    Fannie Cox Prize to Burton, Musunuru

    Briana Burton, associate professor of molecular and cellular biology, and Kiran Musunuru, an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, have been named the winners of the 2014 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

  • Campus & Community

    Andrew Murray named an HHMI professor

    Professor Andrew Murray was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor and will receive $1 million in funding for innovation in undergraduate science education.

  • Campus & Community

    A minute with MIHNUET

    Since 1995, Music in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Entertainment as Therapy (MIHNUET) has brought undergraduate musicians to 17 different sites in Cambridge and Boston to share the healing gift of music.

  • Campus & Community

    HarvardX course closes in on global view

    During a talk at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, Professor Tarun Khanna explored the benefits of interdisciplinary problem-solving on health care, based on his HarvardX course “Entrepreneurship and Healthcare in Emerging Economies,” launching on Oct. 30.

  • Arts & Culture

    Building outward

    New director James Voorhies hopes to make the Carpenter Center a more inviting space.

  • Nation & World

    The mystery of the lake

    From a single study of methyl mercury in Mexico’s largest freshwater lake, a constellation of projects has grown, all of them centered on children and environmental health.

  • Nation & World

    Journey to Mexico

    Harvard President Drew Faust, University administrators, and faculty members are in Mexico this week for a series of meetings, tours, and alumni events. During their visit to the nation with the largest number of Harvard degree recipients in Latin America, participants are posting items about what they do and see.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hanging a welcome sign for art

    Thomas W. Lentz, director of the Harvard Art Museums, led a panel discussion about the role of the university art museum as a laboratory for learning in an academic setting and in the broader cultural ecosystem.

  • Nation & World

    Disrupting city hall

    Harvard Kennedy School and Law School experts say city life will be transformed by city governments that are plugged into technology.