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  • Nation & World

    Vatican in flux

    The Gazette asked Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, a professor of Roman Catholic theological studies at the Divinity School, to weigh in on the decision by Pope Benedict XVI to step down.

  • Arts & Culture

    Violence, meet nonviolence

    Starting in 2014 at the Mahindra Humanities Center, a three-year, interdisciplinary seminar and lecture series, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will investigate the interdependence of violence and nonviolence.

  • Arts & Culture

    A different take on Tut

    French Egyptologist Marc Gabolde offered a different interpretation of the DNA evidence on King Tut’s lineage in a talk at Harvard’s Science Center.

  • Science & Tech

    Technology’s new frontier

    Scholars are beginning to learn what’s working and what’s not when it comes to using new media to get people to do what you want, and a conference on “Behavioral Economics, Social Media, and Apps” at Harvard Law School Feb. 6 brought together experts from academia and business to discuss it.

  • Nation & World

    Using new media to save the old

    Nine years after he helped Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook, Chris Hughes ’06 returned to campus to discuss his latest underdog venture: his plan to reinvigorate the ailing but venerable magazine The New Republic.

  • Nation & World

    To win elections, get diverse

    Republicans must accept a broader definition of their party, finding a way to embrace young voters, women, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and environmentalists, if they are to avoid repeating the losses of the 2012 election, panelists at an Institute of Politics forum said.

  • Science & Tech

    The sky as a ‘sewer’

    Former Vice President Al Gore repeated his call for action on climate change Wednesday, saying society is treating the skies as an “open sewer.” He spoke at Harvard’s Memorial Church in a session sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.

  • Science & Tech

    Technology to help monitor concussions

    Researchers recently completed the first clinical study of a new rapid neuroassessment device they developed to quantitatively measure neuromuscular performance. The team is currently conducting a study with athletes in the Boston area to determine the sensitivity of the technology in diagnosing concussions.

  • Campus & Community

    Losick wins Fannie Cox Prize

    Two years after he helped establish it, Harvard’s Richard Losick has been honored with the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

  • Health

    Astronomically close

    Earth-like planets potentially capable of supporting life may be right in our galactic neighborhood, according to researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the California Institute of Technology.

  • Nation & World

    A message of inclusion

    Songs of struggle and freedom filled the vast sanctuary at Harvard’s Memorial Church on Monday as part of a celebration of the life and message of Martin Luther King Jr. The event marked the start of the University’s third annual Interfaith Awareness Week.

  • Campus & Community

    $10 million gift to Divinity School

    Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband, James R. Swartz ’64, have donated $10 million to Harvard Divinity School to establish the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies.

  • Campus & Community

    Senior named Global Health Fellow

    Harvard College senior Mary Davies ’13 has been named a Global Health Fellow with Medical Missionaries.

  • Nation & World

    In Turkey, problems for press

    In Turkey, the concept of a free press has devolved to a “Pravda-like” state, with 91 journalists in jail on charges of terrorist activity, and stories of corruption suppressed by the government, a prominent former editor says.

  • Campus & Community

    James Q. Wilson

    James Quinn Wilson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, taught at Harvard from 1961 to 1987. Perhaps the most prominent political scientist of his generation, he died in Boston, Massachusetts, from complications of leukemia, on March 2, 2012.

  • Campus & Community

    Elections open for HAA

    This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors.

  • Nation & World

    Ginsburg holds court

    Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sat down with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow to reflect on her 20-year tenure on the Supreme Court.

  • Campus & Community

    A break for exploration

    For the hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January offered a chance to let their hair down and explore topics they might otherwise never contemplate, from questions of race in Quentin Tarantino’s films to the production of nano-materials to fabricating a hand-crank generator.

  • Nation & World

    Mapping a megacity’s metabolism

    The temporary city that supports the Kumbh Mela, India’s gathering of millions of Hindus, is planned and built in just three months. A team of students, architects, and photographers from the Harvard Graduate School of Design set out to map the insta-metropolis in one week.

  • Arts & Culture

    Matt Damon to receive Arts Medal

    Actor, writer, producer, and humanitarian Matt Damon is the recipient of the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Faust at a ceremony on April 25 at 4 p.m. at Sanders Theatre.

  • Health

    ‘Sunshine vitamin’ looks a little brighter

    Adequate levels of vitamin D during young adulthood could cut the risk of adult-onset type 1 diabetes by as much as 50 percent, according to new findings by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Health

    Worldwide, women’s inequality

    A U.N. official said Thursday that the world has made progress in reducing poverty and in meeting some of its eight Millennium Development Goals, but that entrenched inequality of women will slow efforts to meet equality and maternal mortality targets by 2015.

  • Campus & Community

    Staffer publishes second novel

    Harvard Kennedy School staffer Matthew Salesses has published “I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying,” a novel in flash fiction.

  • Campus & Community

    Inside the Dudley House Co-op

    The Dudley Co-op is Harvard’s sole on-campus alternative to the traditional House system. Thirty-two undergraduates live in a pair of Victorian houses nestled in a residential neighborhood just outside Harvard Square.

  • Health

    Before takeoff

    Professor Arkhat Abzhanov explored links between dinosaurs and birds in talk kicking off a five-part series called “Evolution Matters.” The next lecture is scheduled for Feb. 12.

  • Campus & Community

    Meet Kiefer, Man of the Year

    The Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard University has named Emmy Award-winning actor Kiefer Sutherland as its 2013 Man of the Year. He will be honored on Feb. 8.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Emancipation Proclamation now

    Marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Harvard Gazette asked scholars from across the University to reflect on the historic order’s ongoing impact today.

  • Health

    Winning war against ‘superbugs’

    A team of scientists gained some critical intelligence, not by designing a new antibiotic, but by interfering with the metabolism of the bacterial “bugs” — E. coli in this case — and rendering them weaker in the face of existing antibiotics.

  • Campus & Community

    A Web browser in the heavens

    During a star-filled night at the Ed Portal, Harvard astronomer Alyssa Goodman brought the WorldWide Telescope to Allston-Brighton.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Proclamation at Houghton

    Among the vast holdings at Houghton Library is a signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation once owned by Charles Sumner, Abraham Lincoln’s confidante and Secretary of State during the Civil…