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  • Campus & Community

    To stop and say thanks

    A series of open houses will give staff in Harvard’s Central Administration, Business School, Law School, School of Public Health, Kennedy School of Government, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Graduate School of Design the chance to thank their colleagues with personal notes and share messages of appreciation.

  • Arts & Culture

    Write right, right?

    The Harvard Writers at Work lecture series, in its third year, offers public conversations on craft, collaboration, and even challenges to writing in the digital age.

  • Science & Tech

    Neurons in youth

    A group of researchers is working to map how the brain is wired in an effort to pinpoint the causes of — and potential treatments for — schizophrenia, autism, and a host of other disorders.

  • Health

    Tailored to fit

    The dramatic diversity of columbine flowers can be explained by a simple change in cell shape. To match the pollinators’ probing tongues, the flowers’ cells in floral spurs elongate, driving rapid speciation.

  • Nation & World

    Rewarding nation’s problem-solvers

    Finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award presented their initiatives today at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) before the National Selection Committee, chaired by Anthony Williams, the former mayor of Washington, D.C.

  • Arts & Culture

    Lost in translation

    Israeli author David Grossman spoke Tuesday about becoming immersed in his writing and his characters during a packed talk in the Science Center.

  • Nation & World

    Obama’s narrative

    Mixing historical perspective, personal reminiscence, and psychological analysis, Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. kicked off a three-part lecture series titled “Understanding Obama” Tuesday at the Barker Center as part of the Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series.

  • Arts & Culture

    Making ‘Nixon in China’

    Three major players in contemporary music reconvened at Harvard, their alma mater, to discuss their groundbreaking opera “Nixon in China,” based on Nixon’s seminal visit in 1972.

  • Science & Tech

    SEAS brings good things to light

    By nestling quantum dots in an insulating egg-crate structure, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have demonstrated a robust new architecture for quantum-dot light-emitting devices (QD-LEDs).

  • Campus & Community

    Organist wins music battle

    Harvard’s Associate University Organist and Choirmaster Christian Lane was recently named the winner of the prestigious 2011 triennial Canadian International Organ Competition.

  • Campus & Community

    IOP welcomes former Chicago mayor

    The Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School has announced the fall visiting fellowship of Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011.

  • Campus & Community

    Wyss Institute hosts competition

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering hosted an inaugural biomolecular design competition on Nov. 5.

  • Arts & Culture

    A theology of culture

    Philosopher Paul Tillich once denied there was a gap between religion and culture. Today, he might reach for another convergent ideal: utopia.

  • Campus & Community

    Jasanoff’s book wins honor

    Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff has been named the winner of a Recognition of Excellence Award as part of the 2011 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University for her book “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.” The prize recognizes history books that have a profound literary, social, and academic impact.

  • Campus & Community

    Nobel laureate Norman Ramsey, 96

    Norman Ramsey, Harvard physics professor since 1947 and Nobel laureate in 1989, died at age 96 on Nov. 4, 2011.

  • Health

    Following the clues

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston have retraced the evolution of an unusual bacterial infection as it spread among cystic fibrosis patients by sequencing scores of samples collected during the outbreak, since contained.

  • Campus & Community

    Phillips Brooks House launches gift drive

    Beginning Dec. 1 Phillips Brooks House will launch Harvard’s annual holiday gift drive — an effort to collect more than 1,500 gifts for children in Boston and Cambridge.

  • Campus & Community

    Student making a global difference

    The Forward has recognized the efforts of Rebecca Kantar ’14 to stop the sex trade of children into the United States.

  • Campus & Community

    Innovations in American Government finalists named

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School on Nov. 9 announced the finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award.

  • Campus & Community

    Yannatos memorial on Dec. 10

    A memorial service for composer and conductor James Yannatos will be held on Dec. 10 in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.

  • Campus & Community

    Website updates Yard situation

    To keep the Harvard community informed about its operational response to the camp set up by protesters in the Yard, the University has created a new Web page.

  • Arts & Culture

    Thinking local

    On a visit to Harvard, an African architect imparts a Third World lesson: more for less.

  • Science & Tech

    Nice guys can finish first

    Nice guys can finish first — a new paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that complex social networks like those of everyday life encourage members to be friendlier and more cooperative, with the possible payoff coming in an expanded social sphere. The study said selfish behavior can lead…

  • Health

    Impact of cutting co-pay on meds

    Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital evaluated whether eliminating co-payments for specific medications following a heart attack would increase adherence and improve outcomes in patients.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard football wins 14th Ivy title

    The Harvard football team clinched its 14th Ivy League championship — its sixth under Tim Murphy — with a 37-20 win against Penn Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium.

  • Campus & Community

    Taking the pulse of Harvard

    Harvard is launching a University-wide staff survey for the first time since 2008. The brief questionnaire will gauge employees’ opinions on Harvard as a workplace.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 9

    At the Nov. 9 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members discussed the undergraduate research programs BLISS, PRIMO, and PRISE and the work of the Harvard University Committee on the Arts. They also approved updates to the Memorial Minute guidelines.

  • Health

    Increasing risk for melanoma

    A major international study has identified a novel gene mutation that appears to increase the risk of both inherited and sporadic cases of malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.

  • Nation & World

    The return of ROTC

    Among the top Harvard stories of 2011 was the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) to campus after an absence of 40 years. In March, the University signed an agreement with the Navy. By September, offices had opened in Hilles Hall for the Naval ROTC’s Old Ironsides Battalion.

  • Campus & Community

    The return of ROTC

    Among the top Harvard stories of 2011 was the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) to campus after an absence of 40 years. In March, the University signed an agreement with the Navy. By September, offices had opened in Hilles Hall for the Naval ROTC’s Old Ironsides Battalion.