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  • Science & Tech

    Slow road to stability for emulsions

    By studying the behavior of tiny particles at an interface between oil and water, researchers at Harvard have discovered that stabilized emulsions may take longer to reach equilibrium than previously thought.

  • Arts & Culture

    A show fit for royalty

    “The Snow Queen,” the classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, has been reworked in an imaginative stage adaptation at the American Repertory Theater. It will be performed through Dec. 31.

  • Campus & Community

    Winter bounty

    As winter break approaches, College officials strongly encourage students to spend time away from campus and to reconnect with friends and family. But those hungry for something to do can return on Jan. 13 for Wintersession 2012, 10 days of innovative programming for students interested in exploring a creative passion, developing a new skill, or…

  • Science & Tech

    Creative pursuits

    Projects on display at the CS 50 Fair ranged from a tool that limits procrastination, to a website that displays longitudinal market capitalization data, to an application that helps with music composition.

  • Health

    Harvard professors partner in unique approach

    The first-of-its-kind strategy is credited for curing at least five of 10 children at a rural Rwandan hospital; two others are in remission while receiving chemotherapy, and three children have died. The long-distance team approach was designed by Harvard Medical School instructor in medicine Sara Stulac, director of pediatrics for Partners In Health.

  • Science & Tech

    When plants may not help

    Large-scale increases in forest cover in North America and Eurasia — proposed by some analysts as a way to cut climate change — could hurt the environment by shifting rainfall patterns across the globe, Harvard study says.

  • Nation & World

    When to help a patient die

    Legal analysts at a Harvard Medical School forum differ over whether a law allowing death with dignity or assisted suicide for terminally ill patients is right for Massachusetts. But they agreed that similar laws in Oregon and Washington have not proven to be a “slippery slope” that endangered vulnerable patients.

  • Health

    The plight of adolescents, worldwide

    Children and youths globally are suffering from neglect and abuse, living on the streets, being recruited into militias, and contracting serious ailments. A two-day conference examined the troubles facing the world’s adolescents.

  • Science & Tech

    Thinking green, and thinking big

    At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to seek big solutions for complex and potentially intractable problems such as climate change.

  • Arts & Culture

    Unraveling a brutal custom

    A research team at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is debunking myths surrounding the brutal practice of foot binding young women in China, tying it to handwork and weaving rather than marriage prospects.

  • Campus & Community

    Statement from Katie Lapp, Harvard Executive Vice President, regarding HEI Hotels & Resorts

    On Dec. 9, Katie Lapp, Harvard executive vice president, released a statement regarding HEI Hotels & Resorts.

  • Campus & Community

    Two named ACM fellows

    Susan Landau, a visiting scholar in computing science, and Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo Seltzer were two of 46 people who were recently named fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery.

  • Campus & Community

    HMS’s Louise Ivers honored

    Harvard Medical School (HMS) Assistant Professor Louise Ivers was awarded the Bailey K. Ashford Medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

  • Campus & Community

    Purple bins hold hope for children

    Harvard has joined forces with the Brighton-based nonprofit Cradles to Crayons (C2C) to collect coats and winter gear for distribution to local children in need this winter.

  • Campus & Community

    Building the Harvard Library

    The Harvard University Library’s senior leadership team is now in place, an important step in the transition process that will set the course for the library’s future.

  • Health

    Traumatic injury sets off a ‘genomic storm’

    Harvard researchers are among a nationwide team that has found serious traumatic injuries, including major burns, set off a “genomic storm” in human immune cells, altering around 80 percent of the cells’ normal gene expression patterns.

  • Arts & Culture

    The wisdom of William James

    Physician and Harvard Medical School Professor Arthur Kleinman delivered Harvard Divinity School’s annual William James Lecture, exploring the philosopher’s importance in the area of moral wisdom.

  • Nation & World

    The import of civic education

    Civic education, an important element for democracy to flourish, has fallen to public schools, universities, and colleges to provide in recent years. A Harvard panel discussed what’s required for the citizenry to be educated to make informed decisions.

  • Nation & World

    Divinity School student in documentary

    Sonya Soni, a Harvard Divinity School student, is featured in the documentary “Keep a Child Alive with Alicia Keys,” which airs throughout December on Showtime.

  • Nation & World

    Germany, again a linchpin

    For the third time in a century, Germany stands ready to change the fortunes of Europe — this time, analysts believe, for the better, said a founder of Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

  • Science & Tech

    Sinking ice and hovering foams

    The annual Science & Cooking Fair shows off students’ final projects from the undergraduate General Education course “Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.”

  • Campus & Community

    Easy like Lionel Richie

    Singer Lionel Richie visits Harvard to receive the Harvard Foundation’s inaugural Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award, dining with undergraduates and recalling his career.

  • Campus & Community

    Paul Doty, 91, founder of Belfer Center

    Paul Doty, the founder of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, died Dec. 5 at the age of 91.

  • Science & Tech

    Scaling a mountain of trash

    With half of U.S. trash still going into landfills, discussions are ongoing about how to handle the nation’s waste, with recycling, composting, incineration, and reuse all part of the mix, says Samantha MacBride, who studies such issues.

  • Arts & Culture

    Words from Wiseman

    The dean of American direct cinema, 81-year-old Frederick Wiseman, offers a summary of his documentary shooting and editing techniques.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard basketball makes history

    For the first time in program history, the Harvard men’s basketball team is ranked in the AP and ESPN/USA Today coaches’ national polls. The Crimson appears at No. 25 in the country in the AP rankings and No. 24 in the coaches’ poll.

  • Nation & World

    Good works, and fine experience

    Harvard students made good use last summer of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship Program, a new initiative that supports good works through financial grants.

  • Health

    Plotting the demise of AIDS

    Hundreds of scientists, activists, doctors, and others who have been on the front lines battling the HIV virus, gathered on Harvard’s Longwood campus for a conference reflecting on progress against the ailment, while rededicating themselves to end the epidemic.

  • Science & Tech

    Optimism on solar energy

    Energy Secretary Steven Chu says China has “Henry Ford-ed” the U.S. solar industry, building a global empire on advances made in the U.S.

  • Nation & World

    Dealing with inequality

    A panel discusses “The Growing Challenge of Inequality,” an issue easily described and summarized, but difficult to solve, the speakers said, given the political and economic climate that currently dominates the United States.