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  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Wonderful things,’ indeed

    Bob Brier of Long Island University traced the history of “Egyptomania” in a Harvard talk.

  • Nation & World

    Northern exposure

    Harvard Kennedy School Professor Michael Ignatieff talks about why he put aside academia to make an improbable and ill-fated foray into Canadian politics.

  • Campus & Community

    The fame of The Game

    Harvard heads to New Haven Saturday to play rival Yale in football in the 130th edition of The Game. The history of The Game is captured in photos and words.

  • Campus & Community

    Abbate named University Professor

    Carolyn Abbate, one of the world’s most accomplished and admired music historians, has been named a University Professor. Her appointment as the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor will take effect on Jan. 1, 2014.

  • Arts & Culture

    Gettysburg, addressed

    In the shadow of an old battlefield, three panelists recounted the July 1863 charnel house of Gettysburg, the November address that gave the death toll there a national purpose, and the need for “new birth of freedom” today.

  • Science & Tech

    Technically, you are what you wear

    The Google Glass and Warrior Web projects highlight the annual Radcliffe Science Symposium, which focused on the integration of technology with “smart clothes.”

  • Health

    Clues on generating muscles

    Harvard stem cell scientists have discovered that the same chemicals that stimulate muscle development in zebrafish can be used to differentiate human stem cells into muscle cells in the laboratory, which makes muscle cell therapy a more realistic clinical possibility.

  • Arts & Culture

    A Paris errand

    At a UNESCO ceremony in Paris, Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha underscored the global need for a “new humanism” that peacefully connects a culturally diverse world.

  • Campus & Community

    Dining in the dark

    Nick Hoekstra, a blind student at the Graduate School of Education, devised a three-course meal for 30 students, an affair called “Dining in the Dark.”

  • Campus & Community

    Beating rugged competition

    It was pretty much the opposite of a quiet Saturday morning brunch, a rough-and-tumble rugby match in which 15 fierce and brawny Harvard women relentlessly tackled Princeton’s players to move the ball up the pitch and score.

  • Arts & Culture

    Nefertiti as sensual goddess

    A visiting lecturer suggests that ancient Egypt’s Queen Nefertiti wasn’t just the powerful independent woman people imagine she was, but something of a sex goddess, too.

  • Health

    Researchers find drug that could halt kidney failure

    A drug approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis may also turn out to be the first targeted therapy for one of the most common forms of kidney disease, a condition that almost inevitably leads to kidney failure.

  • Arts & Culture

    Words to remember

    With the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address near, five Harvard scholars offered their views on the history, language, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s short but searing speech.

  • Health

    Underprepared for the next pandemic

    A lack of “surge” capacity plagues pandemic flu preparations around the world, as public health officials, scientists, and pharmaceutical industry scientists work to streamline vaccine production as well as improve surveillance, communication, and other public health practices before the next new ailment hits.

  • Health

    Broad launches next decade with $100M gift

    American philanthropists and entrepreneurs Eli and Edythe Broad announced on Thursday they are investing an additional $100 million into the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to launch a new decade of transformative work to harness recent biomedical discoveries to benefit patients.

  • Nation & World

    Getting the green light

    Harvard Business School hosts its first academic conference on bringing sustainability into the corporate world.

  • Nation & World

    Not very good governance

    Panelists at the Harvard Kennedy School consider why Congress isn’t working.

  • Arts & Culture

    Haunted by the siege

    A Davis Center photo exhibit — wrenching and frank — brings back the 872-day Siege of Leningrad through the eyes of women who survived it.

  • Health

    Genes without patents

    The ACLU’s lead attorney and other participants in the Supreme Court case that overturned the common practice of patenting human genes discussed the ramifications in an event at the Science Center.

  • Campus & Community

    Architect, donors named for new campus center

    Years of discussion about the need for a Harvard campus center came closer to fruition Nov. 14, when Harvard President Drew Faust announced that a donor had been found and an architect selected for an expansive facility to transform Holyoke Center. The center, expected to open in 2018, will be named for its major donors,…

  • Arts & Culture

    Change is on the runway

    A Harvard conference will emphasize the rising influence of landscape architects in airport design and decommissioning.

  • Nation & World

    Challenges facing relief workers in Philippines

    Herman “Dutch” Leonard, the George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management, talks about relief efforts in the Philippines and the challenges facing those trying to help following a major typhoon on Nov. 8 that has killed more than 2,500 people.

  • Nation & World

    Marriage equality at 10

    Ten years after Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, Harvard Law School’s Margaret Marshall, who was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, looks back on the milestone ruling that launched the gay marriage wave.

  • Arts & Culture

    Getting to the dark heart of ‘Conspiracy’

    Caleb Thompson collaborated with Emmy-winning screenwriter Loring Mandel to bring the 2001 TV film “Conspiracy” to Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    New dean for Harvard Summer School

    Sandra Naddaff, director of the Freshman Seminar Program and director of studies in literature, will become the dean of the Harvard Summer School, said Huntington D. Lambert, dean of the Division of Continuing Education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

  • Science & Tech

    Climate convergence

    Representatives from some 195 nations have converged on Warsaw this week for a two-week meeting focused on climate change expected to lay the groundwork for the next international climate agreement. The Gazette spoke with climate policy expert Robert Stavins of the Kennedy School to understand what’s expected from the session.

  • Campus & Community

    Radcliffe looks ahead

    A yearlong Radcliffe Institute competition and ensuing construction project culminated in the unveiling of a dramatic work of public art, in time for the launch of The Radcliffe Campaign’s “Invest in Ideas.”

  • Arts & Culture

    A Colonial goldmine

    Harvard is part of planning for a long-term project to digitize documents related to Colonial North America, and has partners from a growing coalition of libraries in the United States and Canada.

  • Campus & Community

    A poet’s own epitaphs

    Two months after his death, poet Seamus Heaney returned to Harvard, in spirit, for a celebration by friends who loved him “on and off the page.”

  • Campus & Community

    University faces ‘complicated choices’

    Not long after the Harvard Management Company reported an 11.3 percent return for fiscal 2013, and Harvard launched a $6.5 billion capital campaign, the University’s annual financial report strikes a somber note and points to challenging times in the near future. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Dan Shore talks about the “complicated choices” facing…