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  • Science & Tech

    Material gain

    A team of scientists from Harvard University and MIT has developed a theoretical model of a material that could one day anchor the development of highly efficient solar panels.

  • Nation & World

    All politics is personal

    Vice President Joseph Biden outlined U.S. foreign policy goals and challenges during a visit Thursday to the Kennedy School.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s Mexican connections

    Harvard’s relationship to Mexico is deep, diverse, and longstanding. Here’s an overview of those connections.

  • Campus & Community

    U.S. honors Cherry Murray

    Cherry A. Murray, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, White House

  • Health

    Study of lizards shows trade as a force in biodiversity

    New research shows that trade is one of the major drivers of biodiversity among lizard species in the Caribbean islands.

  • Health

    A wake-up call on Ebola

    The Dallas Ebola case was a black eye for emergency room workers who sent a Liberian man home even though they were told he had just arrived from the epidemic zone. But the case could act as a wake-up call for emergency workers around the country, panelists say.

  • Campus & Community

    Access, America

    Harvard College students hit the open road this summer to help pave the way for wheelchair travelers.

  • Nation & World

    The rising in Hong Kong

    Harvard Kennedy School’s Anthony Saich explains the uprising sparked by a pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

  • Science & Tech

    Ghosts in the machines

    Best-selling author Walter Isaacson ’74 talks about the history of the computer and the Internet.

  • Campus & Community

    Heenan to step down in February

    Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications Christine Heenan, who pushed Harvard communications fully into the digital age and led government and community affairs through federal budget cutbacks, the reboot of Harvard’s Allston relations, and other challenges, will step down as vice president in February, the University announced.

  • Science & Tech

    A read on seawater sulfate

    A tool developed by Professor David Johnston and colleagues might help shed light on biogeochemical cycling in oxygen minimum zones.

  • Campus & Community

    Powerful voices

    The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal was awarded to seven recipients, who were recognized for their outstanding contributions to African-American culture. The special ceremony concluded with a ribbon-cutting for the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

  • Campus & Community

    A boost for understanding the brain

    Two groups of Harvard scientists will be among the first researchers nationwide to receive grant funding through the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative launched last year by President Obama.

  • Health

    Confronting Ebola

    Three nonprofits with strong Harvard ties have joined forces at the front lines of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

  • Campus & Community

    Faust and Cohen mark new $12.5M fund for arts

    President Drew Faust and Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, are celebrating a $12.5 million fund to enhance the creative arts at Harvard, it was announced today. As part of the fund, Maryellie Kulukundis Johnson ’57 and Rupert H. Johnson Jr. contributed a $10 million gift on behalf of their family.

  • Campus & Community

    Where books (and more) go to wait

    The massive, complex Harvard Depository provides almost instant access to vast stores of knowledge.

  • Science & Tech

    Prospects for digital humanities

    THATCamp forum allows practitioners of digital humanities to define their concerns, devise solutions for them.

  • Campus & Community

    HSPH receives $24M gift

    Murat Ülker, a leading entrepreneur in Istanbul, has contributed $24 million on behalf of the Ülker family to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to establish the Sabri Ülker Center for Nutrient, Genetic, and Metabolic Research.

  • Campus & Community

    Uncovering history, via shovel

    A freshman peers into the dawn of Harvard, as he works on the Indian College excavation site.

  • Arts & Culture

    Revolutionary thinker

    In his new book, “The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding,” Professor of Government Eric Nelson focuses on abuses of the British Parliament, rather than the actions of the crown, as the central force behind the Revolution.

  • Health

    A way to inhibit inflammation of blood vessel linings

    A study led by Harvard-affiliated researchers is the first to demonstrate that BET bromodomain-containing proteins help execute inflammation in the endothelium while inhibition of BET bromodomain can significantly decrease atherosclerosis in vivo.

  • Campus & Community

    From farm to table and everything in between

    Individuals and communities can improve the food system, according to members of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, which has launched a yearlong, University-wide focus on how to make food distribution more equitable, sustainable, and nutritious. This week kicks off the campaign called Food Better.

  • Campus & Community

    Where creativity rules

    Harvard’s i-lab is a safe place for students to take risks and explore potentially commercial ideas, like cricket chips, aerial drone service and repair, or a public service-oriented website to connect voters and officials.

  • Health

    Sweet feat

    New research by Harvard scientists shows how hummingbirds evolved a novel mechanism of taste.

  • Arts & Culture

    More art sees the light

    A new gallery at the Harvard Art Museums will display art from various other University institutions.

  • Nation & World

    From awareness to action

    Anita Hill says it’s time for the national conversation on sexual harassment to get “beyond awareness to consequences” for gender violence.

  • Science & Tech

    Where heat is deadliest

    A new study of heat waves found a strong correlation between excess deaths and poverty, poor housing quality, hypertension, and impervious land cover.

  • Health

    Spread of multiple myeloma halted in mice

    In an advance against cancer metastasis, scientists at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that a specially developed compound can impede multiple myeloma in mice from spreading to the bones.

  • Science & Tech

    Far-out questions

    Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb talked about the search for intelligent life in a lecture at the Science Center.

  • Nation & World

    The business of being Beyoncé

    A new Harvard Business School case study digs into the mystery and motives behind Beyoncé’s surprise 2013 album release.