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  • Science & Tech

    Wearing technology

    MIT Professor Rosalind Picard and a team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a wristband that can gauge a person’s emotional response to stimuli or situations by tapping skin conductance, an indicator of the state of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s flight-or-fight response by ramping up responses like heart…

  • Arts & Culture

    Eyes on ‘America,’ with hope of drawing more

    Christopher E.G. Benfey lectured on “America,” a wall designed by Josef Albers, as part of GSD’s “Then and Now” series.

  • Campus & Community

    Get up, it’s Housing Day

    Freshmen, who spend their first year living in and around the Yard, are sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses on Housing Day.

  • Science & Tech

    A national perspective on climate change

    Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication Anthony Leiserowitz spoke at a Harvard Kennedy School seminar called “Climate Change in the American Mind.”

  • Campus & Community

    President’s Challenge finalists announced

    Ten student-led teams were announced as finalists in the third President’s Challenge at Harvard University, a competition created to foster cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial ventures that will have profound social impacts.

  • Arts & Culture

    Memories of Mandela

    Scholars, others gathered Tuesday to reflect on the life and legacy of the late Nelson Mandela.

  • Nation & World

    Our nuclear insecurity

    Harvard Kennedy School experts talk about recent efforts to keep nuclear materials out of terrorists’ hands in preparation for the biannual Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands.

  • Science & Tech

    Linking China’s climate policy to its growth

    Nobel laureate Michael Spence offered some growth projections for China in a talk at the Science Center.

  • Health

    Imbalance in microbial population found in Crohn’s patients

    A multi-institutional study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT reports that newly diagnosed Crohn’s disease patients show increased levels of harmful bacteria and reduced levels of the beneficial bacteria usually found in a healthy gastrointestinal tract.

  • Science & Tech

    Happy birthday, Web

    The World Wide Web turns 25 this week, so the Gazette sat down with Scott Bradner, a senior technology consultant with the University who has been involved with the Internet since the early days. Bradner says government regulation is the greatest threat looming over the Net, and its spread around the world via smartphones its…

  • Nation & World

    Russia and rights

    Two of Russia’s leading human rights lawyers visited Harvard Law School to discuss the country’s legal system and offer some hope for ways toward democratic reforms in the coming years.

  • Arts & Culture

    A rich artistic stew

    A music professor and director of Harvard’s Studio for Electroacoustic Composition is indulging his fascination with the visual arts as part of a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute. Hans Tutschku is showing a series of photographs created in collaboration with students from Harvard’s Office for the Arts Dance Program.

  • Science & Tech

    Getting to the source

    A team of Harvard researchers has demonstrated that the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use natural conductivity to pull electrons from minerals located remotely in soil and sediment while remaining at the surface, where it absorbs the sunlight needed to produce energy.

  • Health

    Toward an AIDS-free generation

    AIDS researchers and medical ethicists gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to explore possible ethical issues affecting studies of promising strategies to fight the ailment.

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s basketball wins Ivy League crown

    The Harvard men’s basketball team became the first team in the nation to punch its ticket into the NCAA tournament with a 70-58 victory at Yale on Friday night.

  • Campus & Community

    Delaney-Smith breaks Ivy League record

    Harvard women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith earned career win No. 515 on Friday to become the all-time winning Ivy League head coach with a 69-65 victory over Yale at Lavietes Pavilion.

  • Nation & World

    Inspiring women

    “Inspiring Change, Inspiring Us” is a series of portraits on view at Harvard Law School through March 14 in honor of International Women’s Day.

  • Campus & Community

    With distinction

    FAS Dean Michael D. Smith recognized the hard work and contributions of 52 FAS employees during the fifth annual Dean’s Distinction Awards ceremony and reception, held in University Hall on Thursday.

  • Nation & World

    Help you? Love to

    Model Lily Cole’s life in the fashion spotlight has gradually given way to her interests in technology and society. Today she is a digital entrepreneur, the founder of the social network Impossible.com, which tries to fulfill wishes for free. On Wednesday, an event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society helped launch the website…

  • Campus & Community

    Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, social anthropologist, dies

    Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, known as Tambi (meaning “younger brother”) to friends and acquaintances, the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Social Anthropology Emeritus, and a world-renowned scholar of Buddhism in Thailand, died Jan. 19 in Cambridge.

  • Health

    Key connection

    Scientists have long suggested that the best way to settle the debate about how phenotypic plasticity may be connected to evolution would be to identify a mechanism that controls both. Harvard researchers say they have discovered just such a mechanism in insulin signaling in fruit flies.

  • Health

    Vaccine holds promise against ovarian cancer

    A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy — strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells — may provide a new and cost-effective weapon against some of the most deadly tumors, including ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.

  • Science & Tech

    Hierarchical differences

    Female academics are less likely to collaborate across rank, a Harvard study found.

  • Health

    Quality control

    A Harvard research team led by Kevin Kit Parker, a Harvard Stem Cell Institute principal faculty member, has identified a set of 64 crucial parameters by which to judge stem cell-derived cardiac myocytes, making it possible for scientists and pharmaceutical companies to quantitatively judge and compare the value of stem cells.

  • Arts & Culture

    Museum as study subject

    Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum opened in 1903 as the Germanic Museum, but since then, in a restless shifting of fates that characterizes many museums, has experienced displacements in space, role, and identity.

  • Arts & Culture

    Chicago on Chicago

    Judy Chicago speaks about feminism and art education at the Radcliffe Institute. A video of the discussion is available.

  • Science & Tech

    Grasping with the eyes

    A symposium on data visualization brought together experts from campus and beyond to show how technology in the arts, sciences, and humanities is helping people think in new ways.

  • Campus & Community

    Common Threads: Seasonal mix

    Fall now seems like a dream in New England. It arrives and lasts, at best, for a few weeks, before relenting to Boston’s unflinching winter.

  • Campus & Community

    Bloomberg named Commencement speaker

    Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, an entrepreneur who built an information technology company into a global news and financial information service and served three terms as mayor of New York City, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.

  • Arts & Culture

    The leadership of Cesar

    Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.