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  • Campus & Community

    Law School dedicates new building

    University leaders, donors, alumni, professors past and present, representatives from the city of Cambridge, and members of the architectural firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects participated in the dedication of Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing Building on April 20.

  • Science & Tech

    How to organize chaos

    Executives from a leading debris-recovery firm, Phillips & Jordan Inc., were at Harvard on April 19 to discuss challenges and lessons learned in two decades of aiding the biggest cleanup efforts in the United States.

  • Arts & Culture

    Illuminating an unseen history

    In his new book, “Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico,” Assistant Professor of Anthropology Matthew Liebmann offers a first-of-its-kind look at how the Pueblo people lived during their brief independence from Spain.

  • Campus & Community

    Ragon study is honored

    A study by researchers at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard is among those chosen to receive Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards from the Clinical Research Foundation.

  • Campus & Community

    OFA awards undergrad art prizes

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2012.

  • Health

    Turing was right

    Researchers at Harvard have shown that Nodal and Lefty — two proteins linked to the regulation of asymmetry in vertebrates and the development of precursor cells for internal organs — fit a mathematical model first described by Alan Turing six decades ago.

  • Arts & Culture

    Getting students to perform

    Harvard Professor of Music Richard Wolf fell in love with the vina, a South Indian lute, while in college. Now he uses his passion for the vina and other non-Western instruments to help others learn how to play and understand music from other cultures.

  • Science & Tech

    Illuminating carbon’s climate effects

    Harvard researchers compiled ice and sedimentary core samples collected from dozens of locations around the world, and found evidence that while changes in Earth’s orbit may have touched off a warming trend, increases in CO2 played a far more important role in pushing the planet out of the ice age.

  • Campus & Community

    Renewing a hub of Harvard

    It has played host to farmers markets, seen musical performances, and been the site of a skating rink. Now, the plaza outside Harvard’s Science Center is about to be refurbished, with the goal of transforming it from a pedestrian walkway into a vibrant meeting space for Harvard student, faculty, and staff events, and the surrounding…

  • Campus & Community

    Treasures hiding in plain sight

    A program at Widener Library rescues vulnerable holdings from its 65 miles of shelves by linking alert students with Harvard authorities on conservation and digitization.

  • Campus & Community

    In the spirit of the law

    A new complex at Harvard Law School is designed to pull its offshoots together, while promoting collaboration and interaction. Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Elena Kagan will be on hand to dedicate the new building on April 20.

  • Science & Tech

    Earth’s sister in the crosshairs

    A new book by Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov explains the revolution in understanding the universe that views life as a natural part of planetary evolution and that has researchers on the brink of finding worlds that echo this one.

  • Nation & World

    Policing for, and with, the community

    The idea that law enforcement should work with citizens to help prevent, reduce, and solve crimes took flight through an unusual collaboration of academics and police leaders at Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard’s long-ago student risings

    A century of occasional unrest at American colleges reflected a time of unbridled liberty and questionable self-discipline.

  • Arts & Culture

    Six fresh books worth perusing

    Among these recent titles by Harvard writers, there’s something for everyone.

  • Arts & Culture

    Tripping the arts fantastic

    Harvard’s Arts First festival is celebrating its 20th year with poetry, performance, and a stunning public art display.

  • Campus & Community

    The story of the girl with pink sneakers

    A budding reporter learns to combine her appreciation of science with the joys of storytelling.

  • Campus & Community

    At Herbaria, a new career blossoms

    Museum exhibition designer Danielle Hanrahan always loved art and nature. A late-in-life career move to the Harvard Herbaria allowed her a chance to explore the latter.

  • Health

    Beyond the ivory tower, into the world

    The Harvard School of Public Health’s Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development seeks to give faculty the tools to create broad change and to connect global leaders with the School’s research to improve conditions on the ground.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Eliot House

    At Eliot House, the river House named for Harvard’s longest-serving president, crew is king.

  • Arts & Culture

    Poetry in motion

    Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.

  • Arts & Culture

    Echoes of the Titanic

    On the centennial of the ship’s sinking, Harvard historian Steven Biel has a new edition of his book, which traces the cultural arc of that myth-making disaster.

  • Arts & Culture

    McEwan recounts his missteps

    Fact-fussy readers help author to remember that a novel’s “air of reality” is among its supreme virtues.

  • Health

    The future of self-knowledge

    Anne Wojcicki, chief executive officer and co-founder of 23andMe, talked about growth in personal genomics in an event sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Society.

  • Health

    Protecting the heart with optimism

    Work by HSPH researchers suggests a connection between psychological well-being and a reduced risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular events.

  • Science & Tech

    Elegant entanglement

    Harvard scientists have taken a critical step toward building a quantum computer — a device that could someday harness subatomic particles such as electrons to perform calculations far faster than the most powerful supercomputers.

  • Nation & World

    47 proposals win Hauser grants

    The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) is supporting 47 proposals from the Harvard community. The efforts will receive a total of nearly $2 million in inaugural Hauser Fund grants.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard staffers, faculty raise $11,700

    Red Sox-themed fundraiser nets $11,700 for the Jimmy Fund.

  • Science & Tech

    Self-assembly as a guide

    Vinothan Manoharan, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and physics at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, wants to make self-assembly — when particles interact with one another and spontaneously arrange themselves into organized structures — happen in the laboratory to treat life-threatening diseases or manufacture useful objects.