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  • 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…

  • Science & Tech

    A new view of gentrification

    Researchers used Google Street View to conduct a study of gentrification in Chicago.

  • Health

    Viral load as an anti-AIDS hammer

    Harvard researchers have joined with counterparts in the U.S. and Botswana governments to conduct a major evaluation of AIDS treatment targeted specifically to reduce infectivity.

  • Health

    New hope for ‘bubble boy’ disease

    Children born with so-called “bubble boy” disease have the best chance of survival if they undergo a hematopoietic stem cell transplant as soon after birth as possible, according to a detailed analysis of 10 years of outcome data by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.

  • Health

    Help for halting autism symptoms

    A new study shows that boosting inhibitory neurotransmission early in brain development can help reverse deficits in inhibitory circuit maturation that are associated with autism.

  • Arts & Culture

    Lessons in craft

    A group of young students from Boston are working with members of the American Repertory Theater to craft short plays based on themes from “Finding Neverland.”

  • Campus & Community

    Common Threads: Summer in the Yard

    The heat is on at Harvard, but it’s summer students, faculty, and international guests are keeping — and looking — quite cool.

  • Campus & Community

    Dining alfresco

    The 39th Annual Senior Picnic celebration welcomes Cambridge seniors to Harvard Yard.

  • Campus & Community

    The unsinkable Alex Calabrese

    A staff profile of Alex Calabrese, who splits time between working as a lifeguard at Harvard and performing with his band, Neversink.

  • Nation & World

    Chinese economists zero in on crises

    Economist Lawrence Summers and foreign policy expert Graham Allison talk about lessons learned from a Chinese research team’s comparison of the conditions around the Great Depression and the recession of 2008.

  • Science & Tech

    Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips develops into new company

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Monday that its human organs-on-chips technology will be commercialized by a newly formed private company to accelerate the development of pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetic, and personalized medicine products.

  • Campus & Community

    Marc J. Roberts, 71

    Marc J. Roberts, a longtime professor at the Harvard School of Public Health whose former students run health systems across the country and around the world, died suddenly on July 26 at his home in Cape Cod.

  • Science & Tech

    Destination: Doom

    A novella co-authored by Professor Naomi Oreskes imagines the long-term consequences of inaction on climate change.