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  • 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.

  • Arts & Culture

    Between the lines

    Three Harvard faculty members divulge an influential book in this installment of Harvard Bound.

  • Nation & World

    The bright side of Pakistan

    A January conference in Pakistan on urbanization was the first of five in the region and a result of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s growing work there.

  • Science & Tech

    Putting the ‘estimate’ back in estimates

    Professor M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon wants to bring the uncertainty back to forecasting, he said in a Harvard talk.

  • Science & Tech

    The melding of technology

    Former MIT President Susan Hockfield discussed the power of technology’s ongoing convergence during a session at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

  • Science & Tech

    Roomy cages built from DNA

    Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have discovered a way to build self-assembling cages made of DNA. The cages are the largest stand-alone DNA structures made to date, and one day may be able to deliver drugs or house tiny bioreactors or photonic devices inside the human body.

  • 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.