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  • Arts & Culture

    The modern opens the past

    In the inaugural lecture of a series organized by Harvard’s Digital Futures consortium, data-publishing entrepreneur Eric Kansa lays out a case for archaeology to “get on the map” of disciplines sharing data widely on the Web.

  • Health

    Recalling a lab-led rescue

    Professor Howard Green stumbled across a skin transplant technique that involved growing keratinocytes into full skin layers, making him a pioneer in regenerative medicine.

  • Campus & Community

    Dialogue with the deans

    Harvard College interim Dean Donald Pfister and Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde made themselves available to field questions from students in a “meet the deans” forum.

  • Nation & World

    You 2.0

    Marketing strategy consultant and Harvard Divinity School alumna Dorie Clark offers advice on how to re-imagine your life by changing your perception of who you are, or what she calls “your personal brand.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard’s Indian College poet

    With the discovery of a poem missing for 300 years, two Harvard graduate students have filled in some missing blanks on Benjamin Larnell, the last student of the colonial era associated with Harvard’s Indian College.

  • Campus & Community

    A boost for new ways to learn

    Harvard University Provost Alan Garber announced the appointment of historian and humanities scholar Peter K. Bol as vice provost for advances in learning.

  • Campus & Community

    $12.5M to support innovation in education at HSPH

    A major effort under way at Harvard School of Public Health to redesign its educational strategy has received significant new support of $12.5 million from the Charina Endowment Fund and Richard L. (M.B.A.’59) and Ronay Menschel.

  • Nation & World

    The triumph of Twitter

    With Twitter becoming a driving force in politics, snark and shallow scoops are undermining the media’s campaign coverage, study says.

  • Health

    The whys of rising obesity

    A panel discussion held by the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health probed the reasons for the modern epidemic of overeating and its particularly harmful effects on children, who are especially susceptible to food marketing.

  • Nation & World

    Beyond belief

    A panel of scholars gathered at Harvard Divinity School to discuss “Studying Religion in the Post-9/11 World: The Importance of Taking Religion Seriously from a Humanities Perspective in Troubled Times.”

  • Campus & Community

    Shopping around

    The start of a new semester signals many things, one of which is “shopping week,” where undergraduates sit in on classes and check out syllabi before committing to a course.

  • Arts & Culture

    Peering into the Fogg

    Harvard Art Museums officials offered an early look at the progress of the renovation and expansion project that will unite the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler museums under one roof.

  • Health

    The good life, longer

    By synthesizing the data collected in multiple government-sponsored health surveys conducted in recent decades, researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts were able to measure how the quality-adjusted life expectancy of Americans has changed over time.

  • Nation & World

    Volatile Syria

    Moderator Graham Allison went straight to the heart of the matter during an Institute of Politics forum on Syria at the Kennedy School, asking the four panelists for a yes or no vote on military force.

  • Science & Tech

    The building blocks of planets

    Harvard’s Matt Holman, a lecturer on astrophysics, and his collaborators at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado are piggybacking their research onto a NASA spaceship that is racing to the farthest edges of the solar system to study objects in the far-flung Kuiper Belt.

  • Arts & Culture

    Club Passim plays to its Harvard audience

    Club Passim remains a vital part of the Harvard Square scene, as well as a venue that has attracted Harvard students for decades.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 11

    On Sept. 11, the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2013-14, discussed the work of the council in the new academic year, and discussed proposed changes to the Q Guide.

  • Health

    Lifting the ‘family curse’

    Removing a woman’s healthy breasts might seem like a radical response to fears of breast cancer. But for women with genetic mutations that put them at high risk of developing the disease, it’s a step that can cut their vulnerability by 90 to 95 percent.

  • Arts & Culture

    On closer inspection, not such a plain Jane

    In her latest work, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” Jill Lepore, a professor of U.S. history at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, brings Benjamin Franklin’s sister out of history’s fog and into the open.

  • Campus & Community

    To market, to market

    For several Fridays, dozens of local artists, crafters, and designers from Boston’s SoWa Open Market will be selling their wares at the Science Center Plaza.

  • Campus & Community

    Managing a ‘seismic shift’

    Harvard simultaneously faces stiff economic challenges and evolving opportunities, President Drew Faust said in her opening-of-year speech.

  • Nation & World

    The media, remade

    Three spring 2013 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, in collaboration with the Nieman Journalism Lab, this week launched an oral history/research multimedia project called “Riptide” to document the digital disruption of the news business and what that means for the future of news gathering and news publishing.

  • Science & Tech

    Forks, knives, beakers

    New York Times columnist Harold McGee and chef Dave Arnold introduced this year’s “Science and Cooking” public lecture series, which runs through December.

  • Health

    Summer in the lab

    Students from local high schools spent a chunk of the summer at work in a Harvard lab as part of program co-sponsored by the University’s Life Sciences Education program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

  • Nation & World

    Grad students make impact

    A sample of how Harvard graduate students from the Law School, Kennedy School, Business School, and the School of Public Health used the tools they sharpened at Harvard to help build a better world.

  • Campus & Community

    Houghton’s heroes

    Houghton Library, Harvard’s home to literary and historical treasures, is more like a museum than your typical library.

  • Arts & Culture

    Six artists, teaching and creating

    Following tradition, Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies is hosting visiting faculty, six artists this year. Talks have been scheduled through November. The opening reception is Sept. 12.

  • Campus & Community

    There’s only one Harvard

    Philip Harding, who is an M.P.P. student at Harvard Kennedy School and president of the Harvard Graduate Council, shares his thoughts on the “Harvard experience.”

  • Campus & Community

    New name for Old Quincy

    After 15 months of construction, the renewal of Old Quincy — the neo-Georgian portion of Quincy House — was completed Saturday when it was renamed Stone Hall in honor of Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, the late senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

  • Arts & Culture

    Wynton Marsalis to continue lecture-performance series

    Wynton Marsalis will continue his lecture series this month, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Sanders Theatre on Sept. 26.