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  • Health

    Hope for aging brains, skeletal muscle

    Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have shown that a protein, one they previously demonstrated can make failing hearts in aging mice appear more like those of young and healthy mice, similarly improves brain and skeletal muscle function in aging mice.

  • Nation & World

    The next Google

    Google chairman Eric Schmidt talks about innovation and leadership in the digital age at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Campus & Community

    Junior named Truman Scholar

    Tianhao He ’15, a Mather House sociology concentrator, was named a 2014 Truman Scholar. The annual prize, which recognizes college juniors with an interest in a career in public service, provides up to $30,000 toward graduate school.

  • Campus & Community

    Women leaders recognized

    The Harvard Women’s Center honored an undergraduate and an innovative entrepreneur during the Women’s Leadership awards. The awards have a legacy of distinguished recipients and recognize “contributions by women that challenge, motivate, and inspire.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Artful balance

    Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev spoke at Harvard about her work with exhibit “dOCUMENTA (13,” launching a new annual program on curatorial practice.

  • Nation & World

    Faith in social justice

    In response to a new report from the Brookings Institution that contends that “religious voices will remain indispensable to movements on behalf of the poor, the marginalized, and middle-class Americans,” Harvard Divinity School’s Dan McKanan shared his insight.

  • Arts & Culture

    From Atwood, wisdom and a bit of wickedness

    The Harvard Arts Medal ceremony kicked off this year’s Arts First festival, with Margaret Atwood receiving the award.

  • Campus & Community

    Lovejoy new HAA executive director

    Philip W. Lovejoy, the Harvard Alumni Association’s longtime deputy executive director, will succeed Jack Reardon ’60 as executive director effective July 1.

  • Health

    You call this spring?

    Despite this year’s long winter and slow-warming spring, Harvard experts say that climate change hasn’t gone on hiatus. Long-term evidence indicates that spring in Boston has begun coming weeks earlier over the last century. The Gazette spoke with Elizabeth Wolkovich, a recently appointed assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, about spring’s arrival, climate change,…

  • Science & Tech

    Managing an aging populace

    Aging, health care, and the challenges facing the globe’s women were the focus of a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 30

    On April 30 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2014-15 and Courses of Instruction for 2014-15.

  • Science & Tech

    Life, reflected in the dead

    Why do we care for our dead? The answer is not religion, but a primordial set of ethical obligations played out over thousands of years across countless cultures, an author says.

  • Arts & Culture

    Given to composition

    Novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid was among the participants in a panel on the first day of Harvard LitFest, which continues through Thursday .

  • Campus & Community

    ‘I have always been temperamentally wired to carry on’

    Interview with Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as part of the Experience series.

    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot in her home.
  • Campus & Community

    Hidden spaces: The Class of 1959 Chapel at HBS

    The Class of 1959 Chapel at Harvard Business School has served as a peaceful space of solitude and introspection since its completion in 1992.

  • Campus & Community

    Q&A with Jameela Pedicini

    Jameela Pedicini is Harvard Management Company’s first vice president for sustainable investing. Working closely with Harvard President Drew Faust and President and CEO of HMC Jane Mendillo, Pedicini was instrumental in the University’s recent decision to sign the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). She spoke with the Gazette about her charge to help…

  • Campus & Community

    Boston Shines, thanks to many hands

    Volunteers from the Harvard community joined together on April 25 to make the 12th annual Boston Shines a success. With 75 pairs of hands, they did just that.

  • Nation & World

    Shyamalan sees problems in the classroom

    In a Harvard Graduate School of Education EdCast, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan spoke about his unlikely book on education reform, his unique “outside” perspective on education, and his data-driven approach to closing the education gap.

  • Health

    A taste of danger

    Students in humanitarian relief got a taste of crisis during a three-day simulation at Harold Parker State Forest.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Incognito’ author uncovers biases

    In the third and final installment of this year’s Diversity Dialogues, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences brought Michael Sidney Fosberg of “Incognito” fame to address biases we face every day.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard men’s lacrosse secures Ivy title

    The No. 16 Harvard men’s lacrosse team did what no other Crimson team had done in 24 years on Saturday, as it clinched the program’s first Ivy League championship since 1990 with an 11-10 win at No. 13 Yale.

  • Nation & World

    It’s the who, not the what

    The U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmation of Michigan’s ban on using affirmative action in college admissions focused on what voters can do, rather than on the outcome of their actions, says Dean James Ryan of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

  • Campus & Community

    Visitas memories

    A sophomore reflects on her Visitas experience, when Harvard welcomed her as an admitted freshman.

  • Nation & World

    Relief and research

    Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was at Harvard recently to explore possible collaborations with the School of Public Health and the Kennedy School.

  • Science & Tech

    Kovac makes a ‘Big Bang’ on Time’s list

    Time magazine has named John Kovac to the 2014 Time 100, its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

  • Science & Tech

    Tackling climate change through law, policy

    Since it was founded in 2006 by Professor Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program has become the leader in its field, with renowned faculty, innovative courses, a lauded clinical program that gives students hands-on training in real cases. The program’s new Policy Initiative provides nonpartisan legal analysis and policy advice to…

  • Campus & Community

    The poetry of slam

    The Harvard slam poetry group Speak Out Loud will perform during Visitas, the weekend event that welcomes admitted freshmen.

  • Health

    New hope in regenerative medicine

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have reprogrammed mature blood cells from mice into blood-forming hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), using a cocktail of eight genetic switches called transcription factors. The reprogrammed cells have the functional hallmarks of HSCs and are able to self-renew like those cells.

  • Arts & Culture

    Paulus is among Time 100

    Time magazine has named American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus to the 2014 Time 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

  • Health

    Body exhibit

    A new exhibit, “Body of Knowledge,” offers a five-century foray through the culture and history of anatomy and dissection, from the days of autopsies in private homes to the present debate over using digital ways to study the body without saws and knives. The exhibit will offer a special viewing May 3, 11 a.m. to…