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  • Health

    Fears of bioterrorism or an accidental release

    In a preview of what is likely now playing out in a closed-door meeting of the World Health Organization, a cadre of experts on infectious disease gathered Feb. 15 at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to debate whether efforts to combat a deadly form of flu have actually increased the risk to public…

  • Nation & World

    Poised to strike?

    As Iran moves closer to having a nuclear weapon, Israel faces an existential moment.

  • Health

    Sending DNA robot to do the job

    Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within a complex mixture of cell types and deliver important molecular instructions, such as telling cancer cells to self-destruct or programming immune responses.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Last Supper as Passover

    A leading cultural and intellectual historian of Renaissance Europe, Princeton Professor Anthony Grafton suggests that the diligent work of 16th-century scholar Joseph Scaliger, in particular, led to the theory that the Last Supper may well have been in fact a Passover Seder.

  • Campus & Community

    GSAS Dean Allan Brandt to step down

    Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt, who pioneered a new approach to curricular development with the launch of the Graduate Seminars in General Education, announced Feb. 15 that he will step down as GSAS dean this spring owing to health considerations. He plans to return to the faculty when his…

  • Health

    Willing a way to clean water

    Kennedy School Fellow Daniele Lantagne is using her engineering background to expand on a program, partially developed by Professor Michael Kremer, to provide clean water to communities in rural areas. The soluti

  • Arts & Culture

    When religion turned inward

    A groundbreaking speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard Divinity School in 1838 helped to transform faith, spur the transcendentalist movement, and change the future of Harvard.

  • Health

    Pain relief for patients in Uganda

    A collaboration between anesthesiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital and overworked doctors at an African hospital provides training in a technique that can soothe patients during surgical recoveries.

  • Arts & Culture

    An artful perspective

    Museum educators are using their collections to help members of the Harvard community explore salient issues like creativity and leadership in new ways.

  • Campus & Community

    Immersed in the body politic

    Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.

  • Nation & World

    Student’s aim: A harvest of good

    Annemarie Ryu ’13 hopes to create an American market for tasty, nutritious jackfruit, while helping to support struggling Indian farmers at the same time.

  • Campus & Community

    The magic of beanbags

    Two high school friends brought an old-fashioned backyard tossing game with them when they entered Harvard, and now it’s an official club sport.

  • Campus & Community

    A life reborn, a story now told

    Escaping Cambodia’s violence, Aun Em gradually built a new life, becoming IT coordinator at Harvard Medical School and a passionate advocate for women.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Eliot House

    In Eliot House, interested students flock to a basement woodshop to construct tables, boxes, or chairs, to turn vases or bowls, or to create other works.

  • Campus & Community

    Slowing down to see more

    An undergraduate finds her path to satisfying public service by searching among the alternatives she sampled to discover the best fit for her.

  • Campus & Community

    Remembering the co-ed experiment

    A search sheds light on the controversial turning point 40 years ago when men and women first shared housing in Pforzheimer and Winthrop.

  • Arts & Culture

    Let there be music

    As a liberal arts college, Harvard trains its students broadly so they can adapt nimbly to a rapidly changing world. Increasingly, appreciating and participating in music are integral parts of student life.

  • Science & Tech

    Black hole came from shredded galaxy

    Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests that the black hole was once at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy.

  • Health

    New subtype of ovarian cancer identified

    Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a subtype of ovarian cancer able to build its own blood vessels, suggesting that such tumors might be especially susceptible to “anti-angiogenic” drugs that block blood vessel formation

  • Campus & Community

    Faust announces $100K President’s Challenge

    President Drew Faust announced today the launch of the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship hosted through the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). This effort is part of Harvard University’s commitment to social entrepreneurship and cross-School initiatives. President Faust is sponsoring this University-wide challenge seeking entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most important social problems.

  • Campus & Community

    Hyman to lead Broad research center

    Steven E. Hyman, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist, University provost for a decade, and the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, has been named director of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, effective Feb. 15.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Nostalgics, a Harvard Motown band

    One of the many student-led musical groups on campus, The Nostalgics keep a Detroit sound tradition alive as Harvard’s Motown and soul band.

  • Arts & Culture

    Chicago as urban microcosm

    For his new book, Robert Sampson studied the Second City’s ups and downs for 15 years to outline patterns for many modern American cities.

  • Nation & World

    Less bluster, more action

    America’s tenuous relationship with Pakistan has faced one test after another in the past year. To rebuild trust and form a true partnership, both sides have to accept blame, said Cameron Munter, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, at Harvard Kennedy School on Feb. 13.

  • Campus & Community

    DRCLAS receives Sovereign Bank gift

    The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard has received a generous gift from Sovereign Bank.

  • Campus & Community

    Student named Gates Scholar

    Harvard Divinity School student Zachary Guiliano has been named a 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholar.

  • Arts & Culture

    Mariachi Véritas de Harvard

    Created in 2001, Mariachi Véritas de Harvard is a student-run group that focuses exclusively on the mariachi musical tradition.

  • Campus & Community

    College Fellows Program open for applications

    The College Fellows Program of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is now accepting applications for the 2012-13 academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Book shortlisted for Gelber Prize

    “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China,” by Ezra F. Vogel, published by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, has been shortlisted for the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard Gregorian Chant

    Members of the Harvard community gather regularly in the basement of the Memorial Church for an informal hour of Gregorian chant singing under the guidance of Thomas Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music.