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  • Science & Tech

    Planets form in cosmic maelstrom

    At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets still can form in this cosmic maelstrom.

  • Nation & World

    Syria in the crosshairs

    Murhaf Jouejati, a professor and a member of the Syrian National Council, a coalition of exiled opposition groups, offered his perspective on the crisis in Syria.

  • Campus & Community

    The sharing of the green

    At orientation sessions, Harvard’s Schools provide students with information on how to live more sustainably and help the University to reduce its environmental footprint.

  • Health

    Health in the balance

    In research, treatment, and outreach, researchers from Harvard Medical School are taking on the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States. This is the first in a three-part series.

  • Science & Tech

    Needle beam stays on point

    A Harvard-led team of researchers has demonstrated a new type of light beam that propagates without spreading outward, remaining very narrow and controlled along an unprecedented distance. It could greatly reduce signal loss for on-chip optical systems and may eventually assist the development of a more powerful class of microprocessors.

  • Campus & Community

    Back to basics

    Military training returns to Harvard, as ROTC cadets participate in their first on-campus workouts in 41 years.

  • Nation & World

    After 9/11, health lessons ignored

    The public health lessons of 9/11 and subsequent anthrax attacks haven’t been learned, said Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurie Garrett during a talk at the Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Science & Tech

    Capturing the stars

    Alex Parker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, sees astronomical data as art as well as science.

  • Campus & Community

    No summer lull in learning

    It was a busy summer of Harvard-supported learning on campus and in the neighboring communities.

  • Campus & Community

    Venice and the built world

    Several representatives of the Harvard Graduate School of Design took part in the Venice Biennale, a leading architectural event. Dean Mohsen Mostafavi helped to host an opening reception for the American Pavilion.

  • Campus & Community

    Maskin named University Professor

    Eric S. Maskin, a Nobel laureate whose work has had widespread impact on economics and aspects of political science, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member.

  • Science & Tech

    Super gel

    A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard has created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may suggest a new method for replacing damaged cartilage in human joints.

  • Science & Tech

    ‘Thou shall be inventive’

    Chef-mixologist Dave Arnold and kitchen science author Harold McGee kicked off the third season of the “Science and Cooking” lecture series, looking at both the history and versatility of food.

  • Campus & Community

    A warm welcome, and a challenge

    Forced indoors by rain, College freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre and the Memorial Church to become formal members of the Class of 2016 at Harvard’s annual convocation.

  • Health

    Mapping a genetic world beyond genes

    Most of the DNA alterations that are tied to disease do not alter protein-coding genes, but rather the “switches” that control them. Characterizing these switches is one of many goals of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.

  • Campus & Community

    Fresh year, new minister

    The Rev. Jonathan L. Walton debuts as Pusey Minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church, telling his listeners to take actions that make a difference, based on their faith.

  • Campus & Community

    New beginnings

    In her traditional annual remarks at the first fall Morning Prayers, Harvard President Drew Faust found common ground between the secular and the religious, “the ineffable and the immediate,’’ and reminded listeners of “the need to serve both.”

  • Nation & World

    An app aimed at transparency

    Super PAC App, the brainchild of recent Harvard Kennedy School graduate Jennifer Hollett and her MIT classmate, gives voters information on the big-money donors behind this season’s campaign ads in real time.

  • Campus & Community

    Lessons that lead toward peace

    The new dean of Harvard Divinity School, David Hempton, delivered a moving convocation address that recalled the violence from his past, and offered hope for the future.

  • Health

    Forward thinking on HIV

    A research team led by Martin Nowak has developed a technique for modeling the effects of various HIV treatments and for predicting whether the treatments will cause the virus to develop resistance.

  • Campus & Community

    HUPD annual report available

    Harvard’s annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the “Clery Act”), is titled “Playing it Safe” and can be found on the HUPD’s website.

  • Arts & Culture

    At 50, a building still dares

    A new art exhibit opens a yearlong celebration of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which turns 50 in May.

  • Health

    Bringing the psych lab online

    A team of researchers from Harvard and Wellesley College shows that data gathered from online volunteers can be just as good as data collected in the lab.

  • Health

    Tapping the body to fight disease

    Researcher Biju Parekkadan is developing devices that employ cell therapy to help people with organ failure.

  • Science & Tech

    Clues in the cucumber’s climb

    Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, have characterized a new type of spring that is soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly.

  • Campus & Community

    College announces investigation

    The Harvard College Administrative Board is investigating allegations that a significant number of students enrolled in an undergraduate course last semester may have inappropriately collaborated on answers, or plagiarized their classmates’ responses, on the final exam for the course.

  • Arts & Culture

    Let them both eat cake

    For the first time, Harvard’s American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and the Yale Repertory Theatre (Yale Rep) are collaborating on a stage production: the world premiere of “Marie Antoinette.”

  • Nation & World

    More than words

    Nieman Foundation welcomes 24 new fellows, including some who tell their gripping stories using tools beyond words.

  • Nation & World

    Guides to the gallows

    The Harvard Law School Library’s “Dying Speeches” collection of English crime broadsides — street literature sold at public executions — is one of the largest in the world and the first to be completely digitized.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘From Austen to Zola’

    Works from Amy Lowell’s collection are showcased in “From Austen to Zola: Amy Lowell as a Collector,” Houghton Library’s fall exhibition. This exhibit opens on Sept. 4 and will run through Jan. 12, 2013.