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  • Science & Tech

    The $3 million suit

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has been awarded a first-phase, follow-on contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to further develop its Soft Exosuit ― a wearable robot — alternative versions of which could eventually help those with limited mobility as well.

  • Campus & Community

    $3.5M gift to develop environmental leaders

    A five-year, $3.5 million gift to launch the Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Program was announced Wednesday by the Harvard Kennedy School. Louis Bacon is a prominent entrepreneur and conservationist.

  • Science & Tech

    Cutting the cord on soft robots

    Researchers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed the world’s first untethered soft robot — a quadruped that can stand up and walk away from its designers.

  • Arts & Culture

    Bearing witness to Uganda

    The A.R.T. of Human Rights, a yearlong series, kicked off at the Oberon theater with a discussion about gay rights in Uganda.

  • Health

    Ebola’s ripple effects

    The fight to end the Ebola epidemic is not just about saving lives, it’s also about heading off a potentially broader humanitarian crisis, according to a Harvard Kennedy School panel.

  • Campus & Community

    A door closes, another opens

    Freshman Matthew DeShaw arrives at Harvard, unloads, and slips into a new life.

  • Campus & Community

    The value of mentoring

    Harvard Professor Evelynn Hammonds served as a mentor for Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH), a 10-week residential program that exposes undergraduates from across the country to life in a research university. SROH is dedicated to training young scholars from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups traditionally underrepresented in graduate training.

  • Campus & Community

    A circle completed

    Boston native Aldel Brown, who helped found a charter school in the District of Columbia, credits his childhood tennis lessons with Tenacity in helping him to succeed. Brown has returned as a member of the Harvard Law School Class of 2017.

  • Science & Tech

    From decisive to dithering

    A new research paper co-authored by HBS Professor Michael I. Norton finds that calibrating the decision-making process helps drive our appeal and influence over others.

  • Campus & Community

    Art for artists’ sake

    A Harvard graduate and Lowell House residence manager help homeless artists find a mass market for their work.

  • Campus & Community

    Patrick Dewes Hanan remembered on Sept. 12

    A celebration marking the life and career of Patrick Dewes Hanan will be held Sept. 12.

  • Campus & Community

    The mail and more

    Rain or shine, slush or mush, the mail gets through, only it’s not the U.S. Postal Service that goes the last mile to your door, it’s Harvard Mail Services.

  • Campus & Community

    The biologist in charge

    Beetle biologist Brian Farrell is taking the reins of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, with an eye toward increasing collaboration between Harvard scientists and those at institutions in the region. The center will also get a new executive director, Ned Strong, former director of the Chilean office.

  • Campus & Community

    $350M gift to tackle public health challenges

    The Harvard School of Public Health announced its — and Harvard University’s — largest-ever gift, $350 million from The Morningside Foundation, which will rename the School and foster programs to improve health in several key areas.

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson contenders

    In the upcoming season, Harvard’s women’s volleyball and field hockey and men’s water polo teams will be the ones to watch.

  • Arts & Culture

    The early Audubon

    A collection of the early drawings of the naturalist John James Audubon show his growth into an expert ornithologist and artist. The 114 drawings, created between 1805 and 1821, constitute one of only two such extensive collections of his early work.

  • Nation & World

    Court sense

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan peeled back part of the curtain on the court’s inner workings during a lively discussion with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 3

    On Sept. 3, the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2014-15, discussed the work of the council in the new academic year, and discussed proposed changes to course scheduling.

  • Health

    Linking ‘natural mutants’ and evolution

    Researchers uncovered a variety of features in the genomes of five species of African cichlid fish that enabled them to thrive in new habitats and ecological niches. The findings from these “natural mutants” shed new light on the molecular process of evolution in all vertebrate species.

  • Campus & Community

    Changes to Harvard health care

    In a question-and-answer session, four members of Harvard’s benefits committee explain changes to the University’s health care plans for next year.

  • Health

    Three decades of treating trauma

    For 30 years, the Victims of Violence program at Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance has been a force in trauma care.

  • Campus & Community

    Patrick Dewes Hanan, 87, pioneer in Chinese vernacular fiction

    Patrick Dewes Hanan came to Harvard University in 1968. He served with distinction as chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and as director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He passed away at 87.

  • Campus & Community

    A symphony of diversity

    Harvard President Drew Faust delivered a brief address to open the daily ritual of Morning Prayers at Memorial Church, a brief service of prayers, an address, and music. Faust called the University’s diverse community a “Harvard symphony.”

  • Campus & Community

    Gaining traction

    One year into his tenure, Dean James Ryan of the Harvard Graduate School of Education is setting a course for the future.

  • Science & Tech

    Magnetic attraction

    Harvard scientists have developed a system for using magnetic levitation technology to manipulate nonmagnetic materials, potentially enabling manufacturing with materials that are too fragile for traditional methods.

  • Health

    From chance meeting, a chance to save lives

    Harvard scientists have developed a new test for sickle cell disease that provides results in just 12 minutes and costs as little as 50 cents — far faster and cheaper than other tests.

  • Campus & Community

    Hidden Spaces: Secret garden

    Walking into the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue, keeping Wigglesworth to the right, visitors come to a wrought-iron fence with a gate. Here, tucked behind Lamont Library, lies a little treasure called Dudley Garden.

  • Health

    Forces of isolation

    Research led by a Harvard biologist demonstrated a method for measuring the strength of selection in favor of reproductive isolation.

  • Nation & World

    U.S. unprepared for housing needs of aging population

    America’s older population is experiencing unprecedented growth, but the country is not prepared to meet the housing needs of this aging group, concludes a new report released today by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and the AARP Foundation.

  • Campus & Community

    Freshmen urged forward

    The Class of 2018 gathered at Freshman Convocation to hear from University leaders on the challenges and opportunities ahead.