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  • Health

    An opening against Alzheimer’s

    Findings by a team at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center suggest a new strategy for diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Arts & Culture

    Film, fact, and fantasy

    Indian-born director Deepa Mehta often shines light on her homeland with films that explore complex and controversial themes. She discussed her creative and collaborative process during a talk at the Radcliffe Gymnasium.

  • Campus & Community

    2,032 admitted to Class of ’16

    Letters and email notifications of admission to Harvard College have been sent to 2,032 students. More than 60 percent of families of students admitted to the Class of 2016 will benefit from an unprecedented $172 million in undergraduate financial aid.

  • Science & Tech

    Nurturing the seeds of innovation

    The bond between Harvard and Silicon Valley is a close one. The region is home to a powerful network of alumni willing to offer mentorship to students and recent graduates who are dreaming big. Taking advantage of that network, SEAS and HBS recently came together to organize the trip to Palo Alto.

  • Campus & Community

    Pulling together for a better Harvard

    President of the Harvard Board of Overseers Leila Fawaz and Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation Robert Reischauer sat down with the Gazette recently to discuss the University’s governance, the interplay between the University’s two governing boards, and the experience of serving.

  • Campus & Community

    Renewing Harvard-Army ties

    In a ceremony March 28 at Hilles Hall, Harvard University resumed a connection with the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) that started in 1916.

  • Health

    Paying hospitals to improve doesn’t work

    A new study from Harvard School of Public Health finds no evidence that the largest hospital-based pay-for-performance program in the U.S. improved 30-day mortality rates, a measure of whether patients survive their hospitalization.

  • Nation & World

    Lessons from deep underground

    Laurence Golborne was Chile’s mining minister in 2010 when a mineshaft collapse catapulted him into the international spotlight. The subsequent 69-day operation that Golborne led to rescue 33 trapped miners made him famous.

  • Arts & Culture

    Filmmaker who bore witness to Holocaust

    A cinema legend’s advice on making films about unspeakable war crimes: “Go to see the killers.”

  • Campus & Community

    More than one crowning achievement

    Kelsey Beck ’14 was crowned Miss Boston 2012. The Harvard student will compete in the Miss Massachusetts pageant June 29-30 in Worcester. In the meantime, she balances classes and extracurricular activities.

  • Health

    Writing the book of cancer knowledge

    The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia is an academic-industry collaboration resource that marries deeply detailed cancer genome data with predictors of drug response, information that could lead to refinements in cancer clinical trials and future treatments.

  • Campus & Community

    A peek into Harvard classrooms

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is launching a new video series, called “Harvard’s Great Teachers,” which will highlight Harvard’s world-class faculty and offer a sampling of the exciting and innovative teaching experienced by Harvard students.

  • Health

    Pondering health, at home and abroad

    The world is in the midst of a global health transition, with the population growing older and primary health threats coming from chronic, not infectious, diseases, according to speakers at an Advanced Leadership Initiative think tank.

  • Nation & World

    Japan’s mistakes

    Assurances of the safety of Japan’s nuclear industry lulled the government and the public into a false sense of security that was shattered a year ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the head of a panel that reviewed the disaster told a Harvard audience March 26.

  • Science & Tech

    Buckling under pressure

    Inspired by a spherical toy that expands and collapses, researchers at Harvard and MIT have created a new type of engineered capsule, called a “buckliball,” that exploits the phenomenon of buckling. The buckliball is the first morphable structure to incorporate buckling as a desirable engineering design element.

  • Science & Tech

    Planet starship

    Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: If a star can get tossed outward at such an extreme velocity, could the same thing happen to planets? New research shows that…

  • Arts & Culture

    Artist touts ‘primacy’ of images

    The beauty of art, says William Kentridge in his Norton Lectures, is that it makes “a safe place for uncertainty.”

  • Campus & Community

    Record for financial aid

    Harvard College will increase financial aid for undergraduates to a record $172 million for the next academic year.

  • Nation & World

    Q&A on health care reform

    Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe offers his analysis of this week’s hearings before the Supreme Court on mandatory coverage.

  • Campus & Community

    Eyes on the future

    Harvard’s 30-member Board of Overseers works to ensure Harvard’s tradition of excellence is carried into the future.

  • Campus & Community

    24 juniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa

    Twenty-four juniors were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.

  • Science & Tech

    In a drying Amazon, change looms

    If the Amazon becomes drier, as predicted by climate models, the forest will see a shift toward tree species that are drought tolerant and, in some cases, will lead to a savannah’s mix of trees and grasses, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Guillermo Goldstein says.

  • Campus & Community

    Paulus honored for directing excellence

    The American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2012 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.

  • Campus & Community

    Innovative clusters

    A few visitors got a first glimpse of how Old Quincy House will look after completion of the renewal process next year, thanks to a tour of a full-scale mockup of the soon-to-be-renovated accommodations.

  • Nation & World

    The ethical letter of the law

    Professor Howard Gardner challenges aspiring lawyers at Harvard Law School to think about the ethics of their profession.

  • Science & Tech

    New frontier in archaeology

    Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, worked with Bjoern Menze of MIT to develop a system that identified ancient settlements based on a series of factors — including soil discolorations and the distinctive mounding that results from the collapse of mud-brick settlements.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held March 21

    At the March 21 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members heard reports on proposed updates to the Handbook for Students, the FAS’s plans for implementing the University’s conflict of interest policy, Harvard College admissions, and the Library.

  • Campus & Community

    Pinkett Smith named Woman of the Year

    As a part of its Celebration of Black Women program, the Harvard Black Men’s Forum has selected acclaimed actress Jada Pinkett Smith as Woman of the Year.

  • Campus & Community

    Toft named Fulbright scholar

    Monica Toft, associate professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been selected for a 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. scholar grant.

  • Health

    Insight on triple-negative breast cancer

    Scientists from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and their colleagues have found a genetic marker that predicts which aggressive “triple-negative” breast cancers and certain ovarian cancers are likely to respond to platinum-based chemotherapies.