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  • Campus & Community

    David S. Landes, 89, dies

    David S. Landes, a renowned historian whose work focused on the complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance, died Aug. 17 at age 89.

  • Campus & Community

    Heaney’s death caught ‘the heart off guard’

    Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature with longtime ties to Harvard, died Aug. 30 in Ireland at age 74.

  • Campus & Community

    How the garden grows

    Thanks to an abundant garden, the Harvard Faculty Club is saving money and producing even better-tasting food.

  • Health

    Skip the juice, go for whole fruit

    Harvard researchers have found that people who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits — particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples — reduced their risk for type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent in comparison to those who ate less than one serving per month.

  • Science & Tech

    Hack attacks, explained

    In a question-and-answer session, Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, explains the latest hack attacks on major news media outlets.

  • Science & Tech

    Transparent artificial muscle plays music

    Using a gel-based audio speaker, Harvard researchers have shown that electrical charges carried by ions, rather than electrons, can be put to meaningful use in fast-moving, high-voltage devices.

  • Campus & Community

    Panel opens door to disabilities discussion

    To address the growing numbers and concerns about disabilities, Harvard????s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Human Resources organized a community discussion titled “Working with People with Disabilities: What Happens After You Say Hello?”

  • Arts & Culture

    Food, gender, culture

    Harvard Summer School is big, young, diverse, and challenging — qualities summed up nicely by a course on food, gender, and American culture.

  • Science & Tech

    Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change

    A Harvard model predicts that by 2050, wildfire seasons will be three weeks longer, up to twice as smoky, and will burn a wider area in the western United States.

  • Science & Tech

    One goal, many players

    GoAmazon2014 is part of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), the largest umbrella for research in the Amazon, which explores everything from social issues to scientific inquiries.

  • Science & Tech

    Atop the Amazon rainforest

    Harvard air chemistry expert Scot Martin is working with the Department of Energy, as well as several international partners, to track how pollution above the pristine Amazon rainforest is changing the climate.

  • Nation & World

    Who needed a stapler?

    Harvard Professors Eric Mazur and Gary King, together with postdoctoral fellow Brian Lukoff, took an idea about how to change classroom teaching and created a company based on it. When the company sold last spring, it didn’t even own a stapler.

  • Science & Tech

    Fueling the entrepreneurial spirit

    A growing number of Harvard faculty members, fellows, and even students are looking to take their innovative ideas a step further and bring them to the marketplace.

  • Nation & World

    Slowing the work treadmill

    Harvard Business School Professor Teresa Amabile compares much of work life to running on a treadmill. People try to keep up with the demands of meetings, email, interruptions, deadlines, all while trying to be more productive and creative, she says, yet on many days they seem to make no progress at all, especially in creative…

  • Campus & Community

    Paws to refresh

    On the Science Center Plaza for the next several Thursdays, Harvard freshmen and others will be able to spend time lingering at a small petting zoo, part of a new Common Spaces initiative.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard men’s basketball unveils 2013-14 schedule

    The 103rd season of Harvard basketball opens Nov. 10 against Holy Cross as part of a tripleheader at TD Garden.

  • Campus & Community

    Young scientists awarded $719,701 in grants

    This year, Harvard researchers are receiving $719,701 in funding from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, formerly known as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, or NARSAD.

  • Nation & World

    The dream, 50 years later

    Thousands will join President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and celebrate a powerful moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The commemoration stirs not only potent memories of that day, but for some with Harvard ties, mixed emotions about the march’s lasting legacy.

  • Campus & Community

    Boxes, bins, and bedding

    Harvard Yard began to come alive again Monday morning as the Class of 2017 arrived on campus.

  • Campus & Community

    Eat, play, sleep

    As freshmen move into dorms in and around the Yard, fellow students, faculty, and administrators offer their advice on how best to adjust to the Harvard experience. Their suggestions range from maintaining basic wellness to making sure to have fun.

  • Science & Tech

    Popsicle Earth

    A recently published paper says that during the last glacial maximum, more ice than previously thought covered the globe.

  • Campus & Community

    Old Quincy, suddenly new

    After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy is ready to welcome back students for the academic year.

  • Arts & Culture

    Light, bright, and modern

    The strikingly modernist Carpenter Center, which turned 50 this year, was Le Corbusier’s only building in North America and was the last major project of his life. This video explores the building’s color palette.

  • Science & Tech

    Removing indoor pollution

    A Harvard School of Public Health graduate and doctoral candidate in environmental health is one of the creative forces behind SolSource, a revolutionary, sun-powered grill designed specifically to reduce pollution inside rural houses.

  • Science & Tech

    Ideas to build on

    In the face of a coming century of rising seas, a Harvard design studio opens the door to creative speculation on how to remake the infrastructures of coastline cities.

  • Campus & Community

    David K. Smith, former dean of Radcliffe admissions, 77

    Former dean of Radcliffe admissions David K. “Deke” Smith of Topsham, Maine, died Aug. 14 at the age of 77, following a brief battle with cancer.

  • Science & Tech

    The look of music

    A new study by Chia-Jung Tsay, a musician and Harvard Ph.D., examines the power of visual information in evaluating classical music.

  • Campus & Community

    Harry Parker honored with inspiring memorial, row

    A memorial service for Harry Parker on Aug. 17 gathered the coach’s family and former students. Parker passed away June 25 at the age of 77. He served as the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Heavyweight Crew for 51 seasons.

  • Campus & Community

    A walk in Thoreau’s woods

    The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “The Language of Color” exhibition, which was supposed to close in 2009 but remained popular among visitors, will close in October to make way for a new exhibition on Thoreau’s Maine woods, featuring the work of photographer Scot Miller.

  • Campus & Community

    A shoe thing

    A limited-edition sneaker honoring the “three lies” of the John Harvard Statue goes on sale, drawing fashion fans from far and wide.