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  • Arts & Culture

    ‘While Josh Sleeps’

    Josh Bell, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English, reads his poem “While Josh Sleeps.”

  • Arts & Culture

    For whom Josh Bell tolls

    Poet Josh Bell, the new Briggs-Copeland lecturer, calls on the spirit of rocker Vince Neil in his latest poems.

  • Science & Tech

    Making a sustained impact

    Harvard has released a sustainability impact report that provides a University-wide snapshot of the progress that has been made by students, staff, and faculty to reduce the environmental footprint and increase the operational efficiency of Harvard’s campus.

  • Science & Tech

    When it’s best to do nothing at all

    A new study by Harvard University researchers, soon to be published in the journal Ecology, yields a surprising result for large woodlands: When it comes to the health of forests, native plants, and wildlife, the best management decision may be to do nothing.

  • Nation & World

    The making of a stellar president

    For all of their differences, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney share an important quality: their outsider status as politicians. But as Harvard Business School’s Gautam Mukunda argues in a new book, the very trait that makes them likely to be high-impact leaders also makes them unpredictable.

  • Science & Tech

    Chinese cities, by design

    A new three-year, three-city course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design gives students an immersive learning experience in some of China’s fast-growing frontier cities.

  • Nation & World

    All kinds of content

    Gary Knell, CEO of NPR, described the station’s efforts toward a multimedia future in a talk at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

  • Campus & Community

    Extension School extends its reach

    For nearly five years, Harvard Extension School Dean Michael Shinagel and groups of 9- and 10-year-olds from a suburban Chicago elementary school have been great friends — by way of the U.S. Postal Service — and it’s the envy of the entire school.

  • Campus & Community

    Paperwork for a new future

    Harvard University has submitted a new development agenda for Allston, detailing nine projects slated for development in the next decade. The projects will complement planned activity on the Health and Life Science Center and the residential and retail development envisioned for Barry’s Corner.

  • Arts & Culture

    In on the act

    More than 30 collaborators, including four Harvard undergrads, take the stage in the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) production of “The Lily’s Revenge,” at Oberon through Oct. 28.

  • Arts & Culture

    Evidence of greatness

    “A Storied Legacy: Correspondence and Early Writings of Joseph Story,” online and at Harvard Law School, goes deep into the life and work of the scholar, best-selling author, and Supreme Court justice.

  • Health

    The narrative of cancer

    Medical experts are coming to see cancer not as a disease of cells or even of genes, but as an “organismal disease,” Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning cancer history “The Emperor of All Maladies,” told a Harvard Medical School audience on Oct. 11.

  • Nation & World

    HarvardX marks the spot

    Harvard has rolled out its first two courses on the new digital education platform edX, with more than 100,000 learners worldwide signing on.

  • Health

    Separated after birth

    Researchers at Harvard University and the SETI Institute are proposing a new spin on the giant-impact model to match the observed composition of the moon and its relationship to Earth.

  • Science & Tech

    Seeking to connect on water issues

    The U.S. lacks a national water policy, resulting in pushing and pulling by a wide array of competing interests in managing the nation’s water supply, said experts at a Radcliffe symposium.

  • Campus & Community

    Learning experience for parents

    Freshman Parents Weekend, Oct. 12-13, offered parents another view of college life and the challenges their children face. “Freshmen feel like they really change during these first few months at college,” said Anya Bernstein Bassett, director of undergraduate studies.

  • Campus & Community

    Row, row, row your shells

    The Harvard men’s and Radcliffe women’s rowing crews will be out in full force during this year’s Head of the Charles Regatta, taking place Oct. 20-21 along the Charles River. A video interview with Harry Parker, the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Crew, explores the love of the sport.

  • Science & Tech

    Applied physics as art

    Harvard researchers spray-paint ultrathin coatings that change color with only a few atoms’ difference in thickness.

  • Arts & Culture

    The art of saving art

    Works by Le Corbusier and Joan Miró are back at the Carpenter Center after painstaking repair work by conservators at the Weissman Preservation Center.

  • Campus & Community

    Update on labor talks

    A Q-and-A with Harvard officials Marilyn Hausammann and Bill Murphy on the status of contract negotiations with the University’s largest union.

  • Campus & Community

    A celebration of community

    More than 1,000 Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents turned out for the 23rd Community Football Day.

  • Health

    The rise of medical tourism

    In his new book, I. Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law School assistant professor and a Radcliffe Fellow, explores the lucrative and legal dimensions of the growing practice of traveling to another country for health care.

  • Health

    Noncancerous cells carry weight

    In recent years Harvard investigators have discovered that breast tumors are influenced by more than just the cancer cells within them.

  • Nation & World

    Well, that’s debatable

    Four Harvard experts — on voice, movement, public speaking, and trial law — critique the last presidential debate and offer the candidates their tips for the next matchup.

  • Campus & Community

    Cortés receives service award

    Ernesto Cortés Jr. received the Robert Coles “Call of Service” Award for his efforts to empower people to improve their lives and circumstances.

  • Campus & Community

    Robert Vivian Pound

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October, 2, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Robert Vivian Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Pound was one of the historic figures of twentieth-century physics, playing a central role in several discoveries…

  • Campus & Community

    Harry Parker: Why we row

    Harry L. Parker, the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Crew, is widely regarded as the premier rowing coach in the United States. In this video, he discusses the sport of rowing.

  • Campus & Community

    Roth shares economics Nobel

    Alvin E. Roth, an economist whose research as a member of Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences improved the design and functioning of markets, has won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He shares the prize with Lloyd S. Shapley, A.B. ’44, of the University…

  • Campus & Community

    Chao family gives $40 million to HBS

    A family that sent four daughters through Harvard Business School — including former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao — visited the School on Friday to announce a $40 million gift that will fund scholarships for students of Chinese heritage and support the building of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center for executive education.

  • Health

    Closing the care gap

    Models of low-cost, high-quality health care are cause for hope that disparities in treatment between U.S. whites and minorities can be closed, said speakers at a University-wide symposium on Oct. 11.