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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 26

    On Feb. 26 the members of the Faculty Council approved a proposal to change the name of the undergraduate concentration organismic and evolutionary biology to integrative biology. They also heard a report from the Committee to Study the Faculty Council Election Procedures and a presentation on the University’s financial context.

  • Arts & Culture

    A sweet-sounding moment

    Max Tan ’15 will be the featured violin soloist during a March concert by the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

  • Nation & World

    Fiscal fallout at the Vatican

    Gregg Fields, a business journalist and research fellow who studies institutional corruption at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, talked about the sweeping new financial reforms initiated by Pope Francis.

  • Science & Tech

    Heads for steel

    In the Instructional Physics/SEAS Instrument Lab, a machine shop tucked in the basement of Lyman Laboratory, students learn to use a range of equipment — everything from lathes to laser cutters to 3-D printers.

  • Campus & Community

    Q&A on electronic communications policies

    Harvard Law School Professor David Barron chaired a task force charged with developing recommendations concerning Harvard’s policies and protocols on the privacy of, and access to, electronic communications. Barron discussed the recommendations, released this week, with the Harvard Gazette.

  • Arts & Culture

    Chronicler of poverty

    Bearing the lessons that long-term, immersive reporting can teach, journalist Katherine Boo, who writes about poverty, spent a week at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design as a senior Loeb Fellow.

  • Campus & Community

    A transformative TV role

    Transgender actress Laverne Cox visited campus to discuss her breakout role on the acclaimed Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black.”

  • Science & Tech

    Negative plus

    Led by Professor David Liu, a team of researchers has developed a technique to continuously evolve biomolecules that uses negative selection — the ability to drive evolution away from certain traits — to create molecules with dramatically altered properties.

  • Campus & Community

    Tiny stages, grand creativity

    The Harvard Theatre Collection is among the oldest and largest of its kind in the world. Within the climate-controlled subterranean reaches of Houghton Library are shelves, drawers, and boxes full of theater, dance, movie, and music items.

  • Science & Tech

    Sizing up the Big Bang

    Four experts, including Nobel Prize winner Robert Wilson, came together for a CfA program titled “50 Years After the Discovery of the Big Bang.”

  • Nation & World

    Handmade horrors

    A new study has documented “slavelike” conditions in India’s handmade carpet industry, the largest single source of carpets sold in some of the most well-known U.S. retailers.

  • Arts & Culture

    Cool with a capital C

    Hip-hop star and actor LL Cool J came to Harvard over the weekend, pulling double duty as host of the Cultural Rhythms festival and the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year.

  • Campus & Community

    Wrestling with choices

    David Otunga, who addressed the HLS Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law, bills himself as unique — the only Harvard lawyer, movie star, professional wrestler, reality star, bodybuilder, and TV personality in the world. He also brought some very sage advice on Friday.

  • Science & Tech

    Out of disaster, a new design

    A team of students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, just back from Japan, took home first prize in an international competition for solutions to sustainable recovery in a region of Japan devastated by a triple disaster in 2011.

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s basketball drops 63-50 decision to Penn

    Despite 18 points from senior captain Christine Clark, Harvard women’s basketball (17-6, 7-2) had a 21-game home winning streak halted against Penn, 63-50, Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion.

  • Campus & Community

    A hello in the snow

    Interim College Dean Donald H. Pfister touched base with students on a Harvard shuttle bus this week.

  • Nation & World

    Gaming the political arena

    Journalist Ken Shulman talks about the ways in which global sporting events are used to advance political agendas and how activists can leverage sports to draw attention and action to human-rights issues.

  • Arts & Culture

    A musical is born, slowly

    An experience in Uganda helping orphans get schooling is at the heart of “Witness Uganda,” a new production directed by Diane Paulus at the American Repertory Theater.

  • Nation & World

    Faith as fountainhead

    Marshall Ganz ’91, who is credited with devising a grassroots organizing model used by President Obama, says that religious faith can play a greater role in community organizing.

  • Nation & World

    Confrontation in Ukraine

    Serhii Plokhii, an authority on Ukrainian history and director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, explains what’s behind the violence and what’s at stake for a country that’s caught in a tug-of-war between Europe and Russia.

  • Campus & Community

    Kenneth Griffin makes largest gift in Harvard College history

    Harvard University announced today that alumnus Kenneth Griffin, A.B. ’89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel, has made the largest gift in Harvard College history. The $150 million gift is principally focused on supporting Harvard’s financial aid program.

  • Health

    Lessening liver damage

    Harvard stem cell scientists studying the effect of nitric oxide on liver growth and regeneration appear to have serendipitously discovered a markedly improved treatment for liver damage caused by acetaminophen toxicity.

  • Arts & Culture

    Bach to Bach

    Joint exhibitions at Houghton Library and Loeb Music Library mark the 300th anniversary of composer C.P.E. Bach’s birth and the first publication of his complete works, as well as discoveries and acquisitions that were made along the way.

  • Arts & Culture

    Big skies, dusty trails

    “Fortunes of the Western,” a new series at the Harvard Film Archive, draws back the curtain on the golden age of Westerns following World War II. The series continues through March 22.

  • Campus & Community

    A museum as school lab

    Hundreds of Cambridge sixth-graders swarmed the Harvard Museum of Natural History for a look at prehistoric New England.

  • Nation & World

    Kids, defined by income

    Analysts discuss research and new strategies for overcoming the student achievement gap in schools with high poverty rates.

  • Arts & Culture

    Spotlight on black identity

    A new take on Black History Month at Harvard initiates a conversation about evolving black identity, through the lenses of Africa and art history.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Orange Is the New Black’ star to share her story

    Laverne Cox, who stars as Sophia Burset, the imprisoned African-American, transgender woman in the critically acclaimed Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” will discuss her life and career with Harvard students on Feb. 24 at Farkas Hall.

  • Campus & Community

    In the light of the night

    Under the cover of darkness, Harvard’s campus is transformed. Shadows cast by lamplight and moonlight create a Hitchcockian atmosphere when rendered in black and white, like these photographs taken over…

  • Science & Tech

    Curves alter crystallization, study finds

    A new study has uncovered a previously unseen phenomenon — that curved surfaces can dramatically alter the shape of crystals as they form.