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  • Campus & Community

    Putting local youth to work

    Harvard’s Summer Youth Employment Program puts local high school students from Boston and Cambridge to work on campus during the summer months. For many young people, it’s their first job.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Gangnam Style’ by the Yard

    The singer Psy spoke at Memorial Church about his life, his time in the United States, and the runaway success of “Gangnam Style.”

  • Campus & Community

    Students win BSC’s Barrett Award

    Ruth Goins ’13 and Kabungo “Yanick” Mulumba ’15 were presented with the Joseph L. Barrett Award at a special ceremony on Wednesday.

  • Arts & Culture

    Boldly going to Houghton

    A newly acquired writer’s guide for the science fiction fantasy TV show “Star Trek” at Harvard’s Houghton Library offers aspiring scriptwriters everything they would need to know before crafting a script for the ’60s cult classic.

  • Nation & World

    Education without limits

    Salman Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, explained his vision for online learning during a GSE Askwith Forum.

  • Campus & Community

    Top problem solvers

    This week at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) 10 teams of students from across Harvard demonstrated their projects as finalists in the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship.

  • Nation & World

    Focus on teaching, learning

    The essentials of good teaching and learning took the stage at the second annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference.

  • Arts & Culture

    Pages out of time

    “Time & Time Again,” a new exhibit centered on Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, uses artifacts to illustrate shifting conceptions of making and marking time, from the cyclic sun and stars to linear springs and gears.

  • Health

    Making old hearts younger

    Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have identified a protein in the blood of mice and humans that may prove to be the first effective treatment for the form of age-related heart failure that affects millions of Americans, a study says.

  • Campus & Community

    Murnane named acting GSE dean

    Richard J. Murnane, the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), will serve as acting dean of the HGSE, President Drew Faust announced May 9.

  • Nation & World

    Sense where none seems possible

    Five panelists at Harvard Divinity School — including Dean David N. Hempton — grappled with the ways religion is sometimes used to justify acts of terror, covering as well the role of faith traditions in encouraging healing.

  • Campus & Community

    Senior talks offer last word

    One senior from each of Harvard’s Houses will speak during Morning Prayers as part of “Senior Talks.” The May 9 speaker is Fred-Ivo Baca of Leverett House, with the series concluding on May 16 with Cassandra Thomson of Winthrop House.

  • Science & Tech

    The nearness of you

    In research described earlier this year in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Elinor Amit, a College Fellow in psychology, along with two collaborators, Cheryl Wakslak and Yaacov Trope, showed that people increasingly prefer to communicate verbally (versus visually) with people who are distant (versus close) — socially, geographically, or temporally.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard yield hits 82 percent

    Eighty-two percent of students admitted to the Class of 2017 plan to enroll at Harvard this August. This is the highest yield since the Class of 1973 entered approximately two generations ago. The yield for the Class of 2016 was 80.2 percent.

  • Campus & Community

    Soledad O’Brien Class Day speaker

    Soledad O’Brien, a CNN special correspondent, will speak to graduating seniors on Senior Class Day, held in Tercentenary Theatre.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Forever free,’ with caveats

    Scholars gathered at Harvard to discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and African-American service during the Civil War.

  • Health

    Lower health care costs may last

    A slowdown in the growth of U.S. health care costs could mean a savings of as much as $770 billion on Medicare spending over the next decade, Harvard economists say.

  • Campus & Community

    Radcliffe opens doors of discovery

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced 49 artists and scholars who have been selected as its 2013-2014 fellows, among them are 15 Harvard faculty.

  • Campus & Community

    Q&A with David Barron

    Harvard Law School’s David Barron will lead a task force that will develop a set of recommendations regarding Harvard’s email privacy policy.

  • Campus & Community

    Email policy task force members

    The members of the email policy task force, which David Barron, Harvard Law School’s Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law, will chair.

  • Nation & World

    Steps against poverty

    Delivering the Asia Center’s annual Tsai Lecture, the World Bank Group’s president, Jim Yong Kim, described the bank’s bold push to end world poverty.

  • Campus & Community

    Pop trailblazer PSY at Harvard

    Korean pop trailblazer PSY will speak at Harvard on May 9. A live stream of the event will be available online at harvard.edu/live-stream.

  • Campus & Community

    Cambridge, Harvard, and MIT sign compact

    The city of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have signed a “Community Compact for a Sustainable Future,” aimed at leveraging the intellectual and entrepreneurial capacity of the public-private sectors in Cambridge to build a healthy, livable, and sustainable future.

  • Arts & Culture

    Citizens United and beyond

    In this year’s Tanner Lectures, Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post suggested common constitutional ground in the campaign finance reform debate.

  • Nation & World

    Holistically Crimson

    Shaw Chen, treasurer of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, learned a lot from the College’s East Asian studies classes, but got plenty of experience outside the classroom as well.

  • Science & Tech

    How to protect cyclists

    Four Harvard School of Public Health students presented recommendations to the Boston City Council on how to make Boston a safer city for cyclists.

  • Science & Tech

    Building with an eye on the sky

    Real estate developer Jonathan Rose highlighted recent progress in incorporating green features into affordable housing projects, saying America’s cities provide an energetic counterpoint to the stagnation in Washington, D.C.

  • Nation & World

    Subversive education

    Noam Chomsky on Wednesday joined Bruno della Chiesa, a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in an Askwith Forum covering the legacy of the radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) and his 1968 book, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.?????

  • Arts & Culture

    Oh, the humanities!

    Humanities programs are in trouble in universities across the world — but hope prevails.

  • Science & Tech

    Projectile learning

    Students in Matthew Liebmann’s “Encountering the Conquistadors” class recently got a feel for prehistoric life, trying their hands at an ancient weapon called the atlatl.