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  • Nation & World

    Defending Snowden

    Ben Wizner of the ACLU talked about his work on the Edward Snowden case in a visit to HLS.

  • Science & Tech

    For big data, big thinking

    A new course on how to handle big data designed by Assistant Statistics Professor Luke Bornn immerses students in a competitive environment, driven by peer learning, to understand how to handle the massive data sets common in real-world problems.

  • Arts & Culture

    Seizing power from below

    At an early age, Linda Gordon traded her passion for dance to study history. Today, the accomplished author and historian is spending the year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study working on a book about social movements in the 20h century.

  • Health

    A face is not a fish

    A new study from Dartmouth and Harvard researchers looks at the mechanisms behind facial recognition.

  • Arts & Culture

    Before the baton, a red pencil

    A new online exhibit sheds light on the creative process of Sir Georg Solti, a giant in 20th-century classical music.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: The Quad Quartet

    On a quiet Sunday morning, the sounds of strings reverberate through Currier House, emanating from the string quartet in the House’s Senior Common Room.

  • Health

    Solving the problem of shape-shifters

    Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may have found a way to solve a problem that has plagued ligand-mimicking integrin inhibitors, a group of drugs that have the potential to treat conditions ranging from heart attacks to cancer metastasis.

  • Campus & Community

    Teaching on campus and off

    Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy teaches a free American history course to low-income adult students as part of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, for which he now holds the first endowed chair.

  • Campus & Community

    A sampling of college

    Created 25 years ago as a way to connect Harvard with the Cambridge public schools, Project Teach now involves sharing a research-based approach with educators in the local schools.

  • Campus & Community

    Opening academia widely

    In an effort to dispel the notion that graduate school and careers in academia are generally beyond the reach of minority students, Harvard hosted the second Ivy Plus Symposium.

  • Nation & World

    A fresh bite of the Apple

    A classic Harvard Business School case about the Apple creation myth gets a Japanese manga-style comic-book reboot.

  • Arts & Culture

    The making of a musical

    With a show on Broadway, artist-in-residence Jason Robert Brown explains his craft.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard coed sailing nets two top-five finishes

    In its first multievent weekend (March 22-23) of the spring season, the No. 17 Harvard coed sailing team turned in two top-five performances in two teams races. The Crimson claimed fourth at the Team Race Invitational and took fifth at the 54th Jan T. Friis Trophy.

  • Health

    New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates

    Harvard researchers have estimated that around 1 million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the number of cases diagnosed every year.

  • Campus & Community

    Briscoe wins ‘Nobel Prize of water’

    Harvard Professsor John Briscoe, who has made a career of tackling water insecurity challenges around the world, will receive the Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of water.”

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard men’s basketball moves past Cincinnati, 61-57

    Twelfth-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team had a 61-57 win over fifth-seeded Cincinnati in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday. It faces Michigan State on Saturday.

  • Campus & Community

    Business School expands online

    Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School’s reach and deepening its impact. In HBX, the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings.

  • Arts & Culture

    Collectively peculiar

    In an inaugural exhibition from the Harvard University Archives, staffers bring a few dozen awesome oddities into the light of day.

  • Nation & World

    Three ways to innovate in a stagnant environment

    Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses innovation, advanced leadership, and how to make change in an inflexible organization in “The Business,” an HBS podcast series.

  • Nation & World

    A change for the better

    William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard, lauds the recently announced reform of the SATs. He explains why the changes should help level the playing field for students.

  • Health

    Fair-minded birds

    New research conducted at Harvard demonstrates sharing behavior in African grey parrots.

  • Campus & Community

    Meeting the challenges

    Harvard University has announced 18 student-led teams as finalists in three deans’ innovation competitions focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and design.

  • Campus & Community

    Ties to the past

    We all know how hard it is to get your hands around the past. So why not put the past around your neck?

  • Health

    Genetic link between fried foods and obesity?

    Harvard researchers have released the first study to show that the adverse effects of fried foods may vary depending on the genetic makeup of the individual.

  • Health

    Too sweet for our own good

    Even the “healthy” fruit drinks that Americans sip are packed with the amount of sugar contained in six cookies. That love affair is making us sick.

  • Arts & Culture

    A new chapter in verse

    The Woodberry Poetry Room is sponsoring a series focused on rethinking the possibilities of the creative-writing workshop.

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s basketball readies for Cincinnati

    The Harvard men’s basketball team received a 12 seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament and will face 5th-seeded Cincinnati in the second round Thursday at 2:10 p.m. The game will be televised live on TNT.

  • Health

    Secrets of the narwhal tusk

    The narwhal tusk has now been mapped, showing a pathway between the spiral tooth and the narwhal brain. The study reflects how the mysterious animal may use its tusk to suss out its environment.

  • Science & Tech

    Backing the Big Bang

    In breakthrough, astronomers find evidence of speedy ‘cosmic inflation’ of universe.

  • Nation & World

    Putin makes his move

    A Q&A with Nick Burns of Harvard Kennedy School on what’s likely to happen next in Ukraine and in the standoff with its neighbor Russia.