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  • Health

    Berries keep your brain sharp

    A new study by Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) finds that a high intake of flavonoid-rich berries, such as strawberries and blueberries, over time, can delay memory decline in older women by two and a half years.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hard-earned gains for women at Harvard

    Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, professor emerita of history and American studies at Smith College, examined the shifting gender landscape at Harvard during a talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 25

    At the April 25 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the Harvard Extension School courses for 2012-13 and Courses of Instruction for 2012-13. They also heard a review of the Ph.D. program in biostatistics and updates on College Standing Committees.

  • Campus & Community

    Seamus Heaney, set to music

    Nobel Laureate and onetime Harvard professor Seamus Heaney will reprise a 1986 poem at Commencement this year, celebrating Harvard in its 375th year – and inspiring a new a cappela work by Richard Beaudoin.

  • Campus & Community

    Funding opportunity

    The Phillips Brooks House Association’s ninth annual Summer Urban Program auction raised funds to run 12 summer day camps for low-income children and teens from the Greater Boston area.

  • Science & Tech

    Decision, decisions

    Two of Harvard’s leading social scientists discussed the way that humans make decisions, and whether having more choices really makes us happier.

  • Health

    Bacteria beware

    Harvard researchers have identified pathways of naturally occurring molecules in our bodies that can enhance antibiotic performance.

  • Campus & Community

    Walton named Memorial Church minister

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced on April 25 the appointment of Jonathan L. Walton as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, succeeding the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

  • Arts & Culture

    At his own speed

    Artist David Michalek, creator of “Slow Dancing,” a temporary installation on the façade of Widener Library, discussed the evolution of his work during a talk at Boylston Hall.

  • Nation & World

    Business as a force for change

    Business can be an engine for solving social problems — especially poverty — said Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus in a talk at Harvard Business School.

  • Campus & Community

    Welcoming service

    Rising sophomores are connecting with each other, their new House, and the community this spring through Harvard College Serves (HCS). Launched this year by the College Events Board, HCS joins incoming freshmen with House public service student representatives and public service tutors for volunteer projects at area nonprofits.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard’s 361st Commencement

    Important information for Harvard’s 361st Commencement, to be held on May 24.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial for Paul Doty

    A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

  • Campus & Community

    14 elected to American Academy

    Fourteen faculty members from Harvard have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Campus & Community

    Soccer for a cause

    The Harvard men’s soccer team took on the Haiti National Team in a match to benefit the Haitian Football Federation and Partners In Health April 22 at Harvard Stadium.

  • 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.