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  • Arts & Culture

    Art, turned on its ear

    Photographer and arts historian Deborah Willis launches the Hutchins Center’s spring series of noontime lectures with a look at modern artists and their radical, racial alterations of iconic art.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harmony and humanity

    Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock begins his post as the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard with some wisdom from Miles Davis. Hancock’s next lecture, “Breaking the Rules” will take place Feb. 12.

  • Nation & World

    Security in Sochi

    With public attention focused on the potential for unrest around Sochi to disrupt the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, the Gazette spoke with Timothy Colton, Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, about the region, security preparations, and the roots of unrest.

  • Arts & Culture

    A monument to saved art

    “The Monuments Men,” a based-on-a-true-story World War II action film that opens in theaters Friday, depicts an international team of middle-aged art experts in uniform who are racing to liberate priceless art from the Nazis. Many of the real-life team members were Harvard-trained.

  • Campus & Community

    Unique, and useful

    For 10 days in January, near the end of Winter break but just before classes resumed, students across Harvard took advantage of a wide array of programming that ranged from artistic and creative pursuits to career and professional development opportunities, recreational activities, and practical skills development.

  • Science & Tech

    Sharper image

    Harvard’s Wyss Institute has found a new DNA-based, super-resolution microscopy method that could simultaneously spot dozens of distinct types of biomolecules. This could potentially lead to new ways to diagnose disease, track its prognosis, or monitor the effectiveness of therapies at a cellular level.

  • Campus & Community

    Trumpet and coffee in hand

    Capping his lauded Harvard lectureship, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” musician Wynton Marsalis visited the Phillips Brooks House for an intimate conversation about his hometown of New Orleans.

  • Science & Tech

    Mars rover, slightly used, runs fine

    Originally scheduled to operate on the Red Planet’s surface for 90 Martian days, the rover Opportunity has now logged more than 3,500 days, traveled nearly 39 kilometers, and collected a trove of data that scientists have used to study the planet’s early history, particularly any past traces of water.

  • Nation & World

    Facebook, 10 years after

    Professor Jonathan Zittrain, founder and director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, talks about Facebook’s past, present, and future as it turns 10 years old.

  • Health

    Study ties fetal sex to milk production

    A new study offers the first evidence that fetal sex can affect the amount of milk cows produce, a finding that could have major economic implications for dairy farmers.

  • Nation & World

    The doings at Davos

    Harvard experts convened to discuss the big issues and parties at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

  • Science & Tech

    A lab focused on healing

    Robert Langer of MIT shared his hopes for bioengineering in a talk at Radcliffe.

  • Campus & Community

    Applications remain high

    Applications to Harvard have remained near record highs for the fourth year in a row. This year, 34,295 sought admission to the Class of 2018.

  • Health

    ‘On’ switches for cells

    Scientists at Harvard have identified a previously unknown embryonic signal, dubbed Toddler, that instructs cells to move and reorganize themselves, through a process known as gastrulation, into three layers.

  • Arts & Culture

    Let’s put on a show

    During Wintersession, nine College students traveled to New York City as A.R.T. interns to help Artistic Director Diane Paulus and her production team in the exciting, exhaustive process of bringing a new production to life. The musical “Witness Uganda” will have its world premiere at the A.R.T. on Feb. 4.

  • Arts & Culture

    The music that didn’t stop

    Wynton Marsalis and an all-star ensemble gave a capacity crowd at Sanders Theater a musical history of the roots of jazz in New Orleans.

  • Science & Tech

    The promise of ‘big data’

    Harvard symposium embraces the goals and challenges of collecting and processing massive amounts of information on key complex issues.

  • Nation & World

    Protectors of the Maya

    Harvard’s Bill and Barbara Fash have developed a program that trains local people in Copán, Honduras, to preserve and protect the area’s ancient Maya heritage.

  • Campus & Community

    When the walls come down

    Students at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School host the first University-wide conference on LGBTQ issues.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard housing sets 2014-15 rents

    The proposed 2014–2015 market rents will increase on average 5 percent relative to last year, across the 3,000-unit Harvard University Housing portfolio. Most current Harvard University Housing tenants who choose to extend their lease for another year will receive either a 4 percent increase or will be charged the new market rent for their apartment,…

  • Campus & Community

    One course, two weeks, lessons for life

    Harvard Kennedy School students embrace January courses, describing them as intense and a “much more immersive, engaging experience.”

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 29

    On Jan. 29 the members of the Faculty Council heard reports from the Committee on Academic Integrity and the Committee on Outside Activities in the Online Environment.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘The Thinking Hand’

    A visit by a master of traditional Japanese carpentry launches an unusual Harvard exhibit of tools, techniques, and woods that have been used for centuries.

  • Campus & Community

    The Queen, for a day

    Dame Helen Mirren visited Harvard as the Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year.

  • Nation & World

    Lessons on studying security

    Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor and a member of an advisory panel created by President Obama to examine national security issues, discussed the group’s recommendations, which included proposed reforms to the way the intelligence community does business.

  • Campus & Community

    Dunster reimagined

    Newly revealed plans for the renewal of Dunster House show significantly expanded social and program spaces and new horizontal corridors that will complement the traditional vertical entryways.

  • Campus & Community

    A break to explore

    January@GSAS offered more than 100 classes, seminars, and training sessions to students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during semester break. Students had the chance to escape the lab or library, and spend time exploring subjects that might not otherwise appear in a Harvard course catalog.

  • Arts & Culture

    Pictures as narrative

    Lauren Greenfield ’87 spoke with a Harvard audience about her 25 years of experience as a photographer and filmmaker as part of the Office for the Arts’ “Harvard JAMS!” series. The sessions connect students and members of the Harvard community with alumni who have made a career in entertainment or the arts.

  • Health

    Neanderthals’ DNA legacy linked to modern ailments

    Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans are associated with genes affecting type 2 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, lupus, biliary cirrhosis, and smoking behavior. They also concentrate in genes that influence skin and hair characteristics. At the same time, Neanderthal DNA is conspicuously low in regions of the X chromosome and testes-specific genes.

  • Campus & Community

    The growth of cross-registering

    In recent years, Harvard has seen a 30 percent increase in the number of graduate students taking courses in allied Schools.