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  • Health

    Flavonoid compound can prevent blood clots

    Harvard researchers have shown that a compound called rutin, commonly found in fruits and vegetables and sold over the counter as a dietary supplement, inhibits the formation of blood clots in an animal model of thrombosis.

  • Campus & Community

    BSC presents Barrett Award to students

    Miranda Morrison ’14 and Patrick Rooney ’14 were presented with the Joseph L. Barrett Award at a special ceremony on May 2.

  • Campus & Community

    Hicks’ book ‘Dignity’ honored

    The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International has selected Donna Hicks’ “Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict” as the recipient of its 2012 Educators Award.

  • Science & Tech

    New tool to battle illegal trade in animals

    Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis will work with United Nations University on a system that will allow users to track and map wildlife crime, and how it is related to a host of socioeconomic factors.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Ed Portal

    The Harvard Allston Education Portal “Showcase” drew nearly 100 people, including Ed Portal mentors, the Allston youngsters they’ve worked with, family members, and Harvard faculty and staff, to celebrate the conclusion of yet another semester of learning. Both mentees and mentors demonstrated the special connections that form at the Ed Portal and how contagious the…

  • Science & Tech

    The whys of religion vs. evolution

    University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne says that dysfunction within American society promotes high levels of religious belief that in turn blocks general acceptance of evolutionary theories.

  • Health

    When good cholesterol goes bad

    A new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers has found that a subclass of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the so-called good cholesterol, may not protect against coronary heart disease (CHD) and in fact may be harmful.

  • Arts & Culture

    An intimate body of work

    An intimate exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum offers viewers a look at a body of largely unknown photographic work by one of the most versatile talents of the modern art movement in Germany.

  • Campus & Community

    HGSE student wins literary prizes

    Harvard Graduate School of Education student Rebecca Givens Rolland has won two recent literary prize for her prose and poetry.

  • Health

    Cutting calories before cutting in surgery

    Strongly restricted diets have already been shown to increase longevity and prolong one’s healthy years, but research highlighted at a Harvard Global Health Institute symposium at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that the benefits of such restriction may extend to more rapid recovery from surgery and an improved ability to fight disease.

  • Arts & Culture

    Paul Tillich at Harvard

    Four speakers recalled the spiritual and intellectual ambition of theologian Paul Tillich in an event marking the 50th anniversary of his retirement from Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Ed Portal showcases work

    Since 2008, the Harvard Allston Education Portal has fostered learning, exploration, and connections between Harvard and the Allston-Brighton community. The new Ed Portal Annex will triple the size of the Harvard Allston Education Portal.

  • Health

    A training lifeline for rescuers

    The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative has launched a new academy to formalize instruction in international disaster response, with the aim of saving the lives of those threatened by earthquakes, floods, wars, and other catastrophes.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard makes sure ‘Boston Shines’

    In its 10th year, Boston Shines, the citywide cleanup event, brought together staff from across the University, all of whom rolled up their sleeves to contribute to the cause.

  • Campus & Community

    Evans wins Welch Award in Chemistry

    David A. Evans, the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, was awarded the 2012 Welch Award in Chemistry in recognition of his pioneering research.

  • Nation & World

    Freedom’s just another word

    The poor often have too many basic choices, which can sap their resources and energy, economist says.

  • Nation & World

    Getting students to enroll, stay in college

    A panel of education experts convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to explore what it will take to reach the Obama administration’s goal of reclaiming the world’s top college graduation rate by 2020.

  • Campus & Community

    Old Quincy Test Project breaks ground

    Alumni, students, and leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences donned hard hats and plunged shovels into the earth to mark the launch of the Old Quincy Test Project.

  • Nation & World

    Helping teachers hone their techniques

    Ronald Heifetz of HKS led the final seminar in this year’s “Talking about Teaching” series, a University-wide effort to explore pedagogical connections across disciplines and Schools.

  • Science & Tech

    Rules of attraction

    Nicholas Christakis, whose research explores how everything from obesity to smoking to happiness spreads among our social networks, is turning his attention to the past, exploring why and how we became the social animals we are.

  • Campus & Community

    Class Day speakers cover comedy, politics

    The Class of 2012 will hear from one of popular culture’s rising stars and get a window into the way Washington works when “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) cast member Andy Samberg and Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank speak on Senior Class Day, May 23, in Tercentenary Theatre.

  • Arts & Culture

    When the smartphone’s turned off

    HBS professor’s experiments and book show the advantages of workplace teams getting together to share responsibility for down time, while keeping productivity high.

  • Science & Tech

    From Iraq and back, via 9/11 and Harvard

    A Harvard authority on ancient Iraq spent several years studying clay tablets looted from that nation, which had been stored in a World Trade Center building that was destroyed on 9/11. The tablets eventually were retrieved, restored, translated, and returned.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Lowell House

    Lowell House residents like to de-stress in their free time by doing yoga.

  • Campus & Community

    Bathing in Chinese language and culture

    Expanding language program connects students with broader fields, such as history, art, and culture.

  • Campus & Community

    The oldest endowed professorship

    The product of a gift from a London merchant in 1721, the chair set a tone for how American universities teach students.

  • Campus & Community

    Alumni’s lives are in her hands

    As an editor of Harvard’s hallowed Red Books and obituary writer for Harvard Magazine, Deborah Smullyan finds the beauty and wisdom in a parade of graduates’ retrospectives.

  • Nation & World

    Improving the world is a serious business

    The finalist teams in the first-ever President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship are tackling the problems of nonprofits with the playbook of for-profits.

  • Campus & Community

    From novel scientists to novel writers

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced the 51 women and men — from across the University and around the world — who will be convening as next year’s Radcliffe Institute fellows.

  • Arts & Culture

    An art exhibit replete with diversity

    “Attached” is this year’s display of senior theses in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Their work is on display through May 24.