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  • Arts & Culture

    Prince as ‘knowing big brother’

    The musician Prince’s painful past as a child of divorce is the key to understanding what makes him tick — and what makes him an icon to Generation X, according to Touré, the cultural critic and author. Touré is presenting the Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series.

  • Campus & Community

    Healthy competition

    Close to 300 members of the Harvard community participated in Team Fitness Challenge, logging nearly 200,000 minutes of running, aerobics, yoga, Zumba, and weight training.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard formally recognizes Army SROTC

    Harvard University announced March 21 that it has signed an agreement with the United States Army to re-establish a formal on-campus relationship with the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (SROTC).

  • Campus & Community

    O’Donnells donate $30 million

    Harvard University announced today that well-known Boston business executive and philanthropist Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, a longtime Harvard benefactor, and his wife, Katherine A. O’Donnell, have donated $30 million to the University.

  • Arts & Culture

    Blue

    Scientists tell us blue light will reset body rhythms for sounder sleep and higher alertness. Blue is sky and water; eyes and stones; slumber and spring — with summer right behind.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial set for James Q. Wilson

    A memorial service for James Q. Wilson, former Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, will be held on April 13.

  • Health

    Rock sleuths

    In one of the largest studies of its kind, Harvard researchers have found that carbon records from the mid-Neoproterozoic era can be “read” as a faithful snapshot of the surface carbon cycle between 717 million and 635 million years ago, a finding that directly challenges a decades-long belief of most scientists.

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s basketball sets record

    Harvard women’s basketball team knocked off Hofstra Thursday night, 73-71, to become the first team in Ivy League history to record a win in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) on Thursday.

  • Campus & Community

    Semitic Museum director wins book prize

    “Ashkelon 3: The Seventh Century B.C.,” a publication co-written by Semitic Museum Director Lawrence Stager, has won the Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize.

  • Campus & Community

    Season to remember comes to a halt

    Laurent Rivard had 20 points, but the 12th-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team fell in the second round of the NCAA tournament to No. 5 seed Vanderbilt by a score of 79-70 Thursday evening at University Arena.

  • Arts & Culture

    GSAS student joins worldwide discussion

    Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Matthew Mugmon will be one of seven panelists convened by the New York Philharmonic for a worldwide, online discussion on Harvard alumni Leonard Bernstein’s groundbreaking tours to the former Soviet Union, Japan, Europe, and South America.

  • Campus & Community

    Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87

    Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard basketball prepares for March Madness

    The men’s basketball team at Harvard University returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1946.

  • Campus & Community

    The Meaning of Life – Jill Lepore – Harvard Thinks Big

    Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard heads Southwest

    More than 300 Harvard alumni, students, and guests gathered at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Sunday for “Digital Harvard in Austin,” a first-of-its-kind event sponsored by Alumni Affairs & Development.

  • Nation & World

    Investigative journalism, alive and well

    Investigative reporting is an increasingly rare luxury for many news organizations. A Shorenstein Center roundtable featuring the finalists for the Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism proved that with resources, hard work, and collaboration, the craft can thrive.

  • Nation & World

    What helps low-income students

    During a discussion at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp defended her initiative, which places recent college graduates as teachers in underserved communities for two years.

  • Health

    A therapist at your fingertips

    In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Harvard are exploring the use of gamelike programs on smartphones to treat anxiety disorders.

  • Nation & World

    The record of Japanese disaster

    Harvard experts were among the lead organizers of a major effort to construct a multimedia archive of last year’s devastating earthquake and aftermath in Japan. The site goes live this week.

  • Health

    Red meat raises red flags

    A new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers has found that red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard to meet Vanderbilt

    The Harvard men’s basketball team was awarded a 12 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament and will travel to Albuquerque, N.M., to take on No. 5 Vanderbilt in the second round, the NCAA announced Sunday.

  • Campus & Community

    Men’s hockey makes ECAC semifinals

    David Valek scored a hat trick, and Alex Killorn added two goals and two assists to lead the Harvard men’s hockey team to an 8-2 win against rival Yale on Sunday in the deciding game of an ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series.

  • Nation & World

    The parenting divide

    As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Pei-Chia Lan is exploring how Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants negotiate cultural differences in child rearing and how they parent transnationally.

  • Science & Tech

    To help the environment, manufacture

    An American manufacturing revival is needed if the United States is to transform its energy mix at the scale necessary to blunt coming climate change, the former chairman of the Sierra Club said in a Harvard University Center for the Environment discussion on the future of energy.

  • Campus & Community

    CUNY Law School honors Gates

    Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored at City University of New York School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law Association Gala and Auction benefit March 23.

  • Campus & Community

    REAI grants open for applications

    The Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard is offering its second round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.

  • Science & Tech

    Magnetism on the moon

    A team of researchers from Harvard, MIT, and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris have proposed a surprisingly simple explanation for magnetic anomalies that have baffled scientists since the mid-1960s, suggesting they are remnants of a massive asteroid. As described in a paper published in Science, the researchers believe an asteroid slammed into…

  • Campus & Community

    Housing Day at Harvard

    We take a fresh look at Housing Day, one of the many hallowed traditions at Harvard University.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Innovators – Innovation at Harvard

    Throughout the Harvard community, students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working every day across disciplines and around the globe to generate innovative ideas and solutions. Here are just a few examples.

  • Campus & Community

    Incubator of Innovation – Innovation at Harvard

    Medicine, business, politics….You never know where the spark of innovation may originate at Harvard.