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  • Campus & Community

    Take a seat, and listen

    A festive seasonal staple, the entertainment series known as “The Chairs Revue,” which offers musical and theatrical performances by students and faculty and occasional appearances from members of the American Repertory Theater, is back for daily performances through April 26.

  • Campus & Community

    Fairy tales for all

    Professor Maria Tatar offered her insight into the enduring cultural appeal of fairy tales in an installment of the John Harvard Book Celebration series.

  • Health

    Chill therapy

    MGH’s Herbert Benson, author of “The Relaxation Response,” says that the methods outlined in his book can create genetic changes in irritable bowel syndrome sufferers, and with further study might be used to treat other ailments.

  • Arts & Culture

    Winslow Homer’s Civil War

    Two Harvard experts moderate a gallery talk about Winslow Homer’s beginnings as a Civil War artist.

  • Campus & Community

    Building endurance, step by step

    Harvard Stadium is an iconic structure, and not just for the sports that happen on the field. To a community dedicated to running “the stadium steps,” the real athletes are in the stands.

  • Nation & World

    In support of the generalist

    Andrew Delbanco, social critic and recipient of the National Humanities Award, warned in a speech that the shift of American higher education away from its liberal arts traditions undermines democratic society as universities push students into preprofessional pursuits.

  • Science & Tech

    Technology transforms energy outlook

    The U.S. energy picture has changed dramatically in recent years, with a flood of shale gas making natural gas a more attractive fuel option and the opening of new supplies cutting U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil, an energy expert says.

  • Campus & Community

    PBHA auction set for April 24

    The 9th Annual SUP Auction, sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association, will be held April 24, 5:30-8:30 p.m. in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub.

  • Campus & Community

    Glamour honors Ryu

    Harvard College student Annemarie Ryu was honored on April 4 as one of Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women.

  • Health

    2009 flu could have echoed 1918

    David Butler-Jones, Canada’s chief public health officer, believes that the relatively mild 2009 global flu outbreak might have been as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu that killed millions, if not for improved scientific, public health, and medical practices.

  • Health

    Pesticide tied to bee colony collapse

    The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 4

    At the April 4 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved changes to the Handbook for Students and an amendment to the faculty’s rule on dismission and expulsion. They also approved two new concentrations in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

  • Science & Tech

    Black holes feed on stars

    New research by astronomers at the University of Utah and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that supermassive black holes can grow big by ripping apart double-star systems and swallowing one of the stars.

  • Nation & World

    Disaster by the numbers

    Reported natural disasters are up dramatically since 1950, with more lives damaged by homelessness and injury, even as modern medical care and improved disaster response have reduced the number of lives lost, an authority on global disaster data says.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Widener Memorial Room

    The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room houses about 3,300 volumes from the book collection of its namesake, a 1907 Harvard graduate who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic…

  • Arts & Culture

    Tremendous Pipes

    A C.B. Fisk organ, Opus 139, was unveiled Easter Sunday in Harvard’s Memorial Church.

  • Health

    Big advance against cystic fibrosis

    Harvard stem cell researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have taken a critical step toward discovering in the relatively near future a drug to control cystic fibrosis, a fatal lung disease that claims about 500 lives each year, with 1,000 new cases diagnosed annually.

  • Campus & Community

    Political science, in his marrow

    Using history as a lens to predict future political trends has been the focus of Daniel Ziblatt’s career and informs his work as an educator, researcher, and author.

  • Campus & Community

    Social media, but not just for fun

    Social networks can be time-savers, not just time-wasters. A series of popular courses gives Harvard faculty and staff members Web tools that are useful for professional gain and creative collaboration.

  • Science & Tech

    Bubble, bubble — without toil or trouble

    Among the advances linked to Harvard is one that came in a field not normally associated with the University: the culinary arts. Cooks use a professor’s 1850s invention, baking powder, as a time-saving replacement for yeast.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Cabot House

    Cabot House is putting on a production of “The Wizard of Oz” on April 20-21 and 26-28.

  • Arts & Culture

    Widener Library rises from Titanic tragedy

    The ship disaster a century ago led to the drowning of three men affiliated with Harvard. It also prompted a memorial gift that quickly led to construction of the University’s flagship book repository.

  • Arts & Culture

    Filling a gap between teachers, troubled children

    Child psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport follows up her 2009 memoir that explored her mother’s suicide with a user-friendly guide for teachers dealing with behaviorally challenged students.

  • Arts & Culture

    Piping up, to good effect

    After years of planning, an effort once spearheaded by the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to install a new organ in the Memorial Church will fill its halls with music.

  • Arts & Culture

    Street artist eL Seed paints at Harvard

    Street artist eL Seed stopped by Harvard to create a “calligraffiti” painting.

  • Campus & Community

    Making melodic mariachi music

    In embracing a new form and playing in Harvard’s Mexican-inspired band, a student relearned the joy of playing the trumpet.

  • Campus & Community

    At long last, literary success

    Peter Brown gave up the vagabond life of a poet for a family and a stable IT career in the Harvard Economics Department. Twenty years later, his dark fiction found unexpected success.

  • Arts & Culture

    Where art blends with activism

    Tunisian artist eL Seed took his spray paints out into the cold last week to create an example of “calligraffiti” in the Science Center’s plaza.

  • Campus & Community

    In the swim of things

    The men’s and women’s teams teach lessons to the community in the spring and fall to help fund their training trips in winter.

  • Health

    Chasing down a better way to run

    From pondering prehistoric man to employing high-tech 3-D imaging, Harvard researchers are leaving no shoe unturned to discover why we run, and how we can do it better.