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  • Campus & Community

    Helping scholars find library nooks

    Ask any graduate student: Sometimes the right work ethic depends on snaring the perfect study space. Ann-Marie Costa, along with a team of Widener Library and Berkman Center staff, developed an online solution that simplified the process of booking carrels.

  • Health

    Triumphs against smallpox, polio, AIDS

    Harvard researchers have been at the forefront of many battles against devastating diseases, leading pivotal breakthroughs against scourges from 1800 to the present.

  • Campus & Community

    Basketball, with perspective

    Crimson forward Victoria Lippert, set to pass the 1,000-point scoring milestone, has other interests too, ranging from volunteer work to crime-fighting technology.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Radcliffe Quad

    Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses border the Quad, but mostly it belongs to Cabot House, which has residences on three of the four sides.

  • Health

    Decoding keys to a healthy life

    Now 74 years young, the Harvard Study of Adult Development continues to yield a treasure trove of data about how people behave, and change — including predictions of strong indicators to a happy life.

  • Campus & Community

    HUH posts new rents for 2012-13

    A summary of changes in Harvard University Housing rental rates for 2012-13.

  • Nation & World

    Not your average road trip

    Harvard Business School just sent all 900 first-year M.B.A. students into the field to solve real-world problems in emerging markets from Buenos Aires to Mumbai, in the most ambitious element of an experimental new course. HBS, pioneer of the celebrated case-study method, is working to craft a business education model for the 21st century.

  • Arts & Culture

    The West, plagued by self-doubt

    In his new book, noted historian Niall Ferguson sees Europe and America as facing a profound crisis of confidence in what the future holds.

  • Campus & Community

    From impostors to chocolate

    For hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January included financial-planning seminars, classes about the history and politics of chocolate, and workshops on answering tough questions in job interviews.

  • Science & Tech

    Designing in the human context

    For a week in January, 40 students from a variety of backgrounds — comparative literature to computer science — engaged in a “design thinking” workshop led by IDEO, an internationally renowned design consulting firm. Throughout, the human element was key — How do people actually use a product? — as was a certain amount of…

  • Nation & World

    Peace in our times?

    A Harvard Kennedy School panel assembled to discuss “Is War on the Way Out?,” the oddly counterintuitive notion that violence, among both individuals and states, is on the wane, or at least on a downward trajectory.

  • Science & Tech

    The ‘diversity problem’ in science

    Opportunities for women and people of color to pursue careers in science have improved in recent years, but still lag behind those of white men, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds told a crowd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in her keynote address at the Institute Diversity Summit.

  • Arts & Culture

    String quartet focuses on Schubert

    The Music Department’s Blodgett Chamber Music Series will continue with a performance by the Chiara Quartet on Feb. 17. Tickets are free and available at the Harvard Box Office beginning Feb. 3.

  • Campus & Community

    Bhabha awarded by India president

    Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, has been awarded a Padma Award, India’s highest civilian award.

  • Nation & World

    Measuring effective teaching

    Reports of an ongoing study examine the role of classroom observation in helping to determine effective teaching.

  • Campus & Community

    No time to waste

    Harvard recycles, reuses, or composts more than half its waste, but a recent audit shows that there is room to further reduce the more than 6,300 tons sent to landfills each year, according to Rob Gogan, associate manager of recycling services in Harvard’s University Operations Services.

  • Campus & Community

    Dean fetes King’s ‘beloved community’

    Delivering the keynote address Jan. 29 at the Cambridge Public Library’s 37th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds called for educators to help students “make explicit their own values and build their own ‘beloved communities.’ ”

  • Science & Tech

    Physics at 2,500 feet

    In 1934, a group of enterprising young Turks pooled their money and bought construction plans for a glider. Pioneers in the infancy of aviation, they built it by hand, out of wood and fabric, and when the time came for its maiden flight, they drew straws.

  • Campus & Community

    Registration open for intuitive eating seminar

    Tired of the endless cycle of deprivation and overeating? Harvard University Health Services is offering an intuitive eating seminar, and registration is open now.

  • Campus & Community

    Ceramics Program donates mural

    The Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard recently donated a handmade mural to the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance.

  • Campus & Community

    Students give homeless a break

    More than two dozen Harvard undergraduates returned to campus early this month to help provide meals and beds to guests at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter during Winter Break.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s ties to India

    Over the past several years, Harvard University has been ramping up its involvement in India and South Asia, a trend catalyzed by Harvard’s South Asia Initiative, which was founded in 2003 to foster the University’s engagement in the region. Harvard’s understanding of the region’s importance is highlighted by President Drew Faust’s January visit to India.

  • Science & Tech

    Early-stage venture fund launches

    Today, the Experiment Fund, a new seed-stage investment fund, opens its doors with backing from storied venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Designed specifically to support student start-ups and nurture novel technologies and platforms created in Cambridge (or by innovators educated in Cambridge), the Experiment Fund will eventually include additional strategic angel investors and…

  • Nation & World

    Education’s future, globally

    Students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education convened last week to examine how to address some of the world’s educational challenges.

  • Health

    Broad Institute awarded $32.5M grant

    The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT today announced that it has received a $32.5 million grant from the Boston-based Klarman Family Foundation to support a new collaborative effort focused on deciphering how human cells are wired.

  • Campus & Community

    A great day for Danes

    Claire Danes, who has won back-to-back Golden Globe awards as Best Actress, can now add another trophy to her collection, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Pudding Pot, which she received today following a Harvard tour, parade, and traditional roast.

  • Campus & Community

    Applications to Harvard College stabilize

    Applications have leveled off after five consecutive years of record numbers. A total of 34,285 applications were received, a dip from last year’s record 34,950. Two years ago, 30,489 applied; 10 years ago, 18,932 applied.

  • Arts & Culture

    Marsalis: ‘Meet Me at the Crossroad’

    Wynton Marsalis continues his two-year lecture series at Harvard with an exploration of root styles of American music in Sanders Theatre on Feb. 6.

  • Arts & Culture

    Sounds of the Silk Road

    The Silk Road Ensemble concluded its January Harvard residence with a Learning From Performers concert featuring four newly commissioned works.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 25

    At the Jan. 25 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the 2012-13 faculty meeting schedule.