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  • Campus & Community

    Experience for a lifetime

    This summer, 51 local high school students and recent graduates spent the school break working in various departments across Harvard’s Cambridge and Allston campuses as part of the Summer Youth Employment Program.

  • Science & Tech

    Fighting unfairness

    A new study by Harvard scientists suggests that, from a young age, children are biased in favor of their own social groups when they intervene in what they believe are unfair situations. But as they get older, they can learn to become more impartial.

  • Nation & World

    Targeting teacher tenure

    HGSE economist Tom Kane explains the issues behind the debate over tenure policies for public school teachers in New York and California.

  • Campus & Community

    Scholarships make summer camp possible

    The Harvard Allston Education Portal provides camp scholarships to young residents of Allston and Brighton over the summer. This year a soccer school and a swimming and tennis academy were among the camp offerings.

  • Health

    Fewer clinics, less care

    The protective gear needed to get Sierra Leone’s health clinics reopened, coupled with public education about the Ebola epidemic, are the greatest areas of need, according to a Harvard Fulbright Fellow and physician from Sierra Leone.

  • Campus & Community

    Nicolau Sevcenko dies at 61

    Harvard Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Nicolau Sevcenko died on Aug. 13 at his home in São Paulo. He was 61.

  • Health

    Sense of scents

    A new study sheds light on the extent to which animals can make distinctions among scents.

  • Nation & World

    Getting a handle on inversion

    Mihir Desai spoke with the Gazette about the controversy surrounding tax inversion.

  • Science & Tech

    The 1,000-robot swarm

    Harvard researchers create a swarm of 1,000 tiny robots that, upon command, can autonomously combine to form requested shapes — a significant advance in artificial intelligence.

  • Campus & Community

    Classrooms without walls

    Summer camps run by the Phillips Brooks House Association are making a difference for youths across Boston and Cambridge.

  • Campus & Community

    Hugh Calkins, former Overseer, Corporation member

    Hugh Calkins, an alumnus of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and a longtime member of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers, passed away on Aug. 4.

  • Health

    Understanding Ebola

    Though the threat to the U.S. population from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is low, the need in epidemic countries is great, says Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

  • Campus & Community

    Constructive summer

    Harvard’s Summer School offers students young and old access to the University’s archives, museums, and libraries, as well as more than 300 courses.

  • Health

    Drug delivery system prevents transplant rejection

    In pre-clinical studies conducted by the researchers, a one-time, local injection of the hydrogel-drug combo prevented graft rejection for more than 100 days. This compared with 35.5 days for recipients receiving only tacrolimus, and 11 days for recipients without treatment or only receiving hydrogel.

  • Health

    Enemy of ash

    The Gazette spoke with Arboretum officials about the recent arrival of the emerald ash borer.

  • Arts & Culture

    Sampling the scholar’s life

    Eleven Harvard undergraduates worked closely with Harvard faculty and administrators this summer as part of the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program. The second-year program connects students seeking research opportunities in the arts and humanities with Harvard scholars and experts looking for help.

  • Health

    Neurons at work

    Using genetic tools to implant genes that produce fluorescent proteins in the DNA of transparent C. elegans worms, Harvard scientists have been able to shed light on neuron-specific “alternative splicing,” a process that allows a single gene to produce many different proteins.

  • Campus & Community

    Dan Shore to step down

    Dan Shore, who has been Harvard’s chief financial officer and vice president for finance, will leave the University this fall.

  • Campus & Community

    From farms to tables

    From handmade doughnuts to chocolate made from stoneground cocoa to organic produce, the food sold at the Harvard University Farmers Market comes from places both as near as Somerville and as far away as Bolivia, Belize, and the Dominican Republic.

  • Campus & Community

    Woody Hastings, 87

    J. Woodland “Woody” Hastings, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, passed away on Wednesday, according to his family. He was 87.

  • Nation & World

    Radio revolution

    In a new paper, Shorenstein Fellow Steve Oney details the radical vision of NPR????s earliest days.

  • Science & Tech

    ‘It was sort of a eureka moment’

    Harvard engineers demonstrated a novel engineering process by creating a self-assembling robot that folds up from a flat sheet of composite material and then walks away. The Gazette spoke with engineering Professor Robert Wood about the project.

  • Science & Tech

    Robot folds up, walks away

    A team of engineers used little more than paper and a classic children’s toy to build a robot that assembles itself into a complex shape in four minutes, and crawls away without human intervention.

  • Nation & World

    Seeing what leaders miss

    Max Bazerman, a leadership and applied behavioral psychology expert at HKS and HBS, writes that successful leaders must seek out what they don’t know to overcome the human tendency to turn a blind eye to unethical behavior.

  • Nation & World

    The rise of ISIS

    A question-and-answer session with political scientist Harith Hasan al-Qarawee on the rise of the Sunni extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

  • Health

    Progress against ALS

    Studies begun by Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists eight years ago have led to a report that may be a major step in developing treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

  • Nation & World

    The big share

    Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn weighs in on the importance and the future of the sharing economy.

  • Nation & World

    Making hay while sun shines

    Students at HGSE are hard at work building new companies they hope will someday transform learning and young lives.

  • Science & Tech

    Cheap and compact medical testing

    Harvard researchers have devised an inexpensive medical detector that costs a fraction of the price of existing devices, and can be used in poor settings around the world.

  • Campus & Community

    20 countries, one camp

    The Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment summer camp, one of 12 Summer Urban Program camps offered by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), is helping dozens of immigrant children feel more…