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  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    A gift that spans Schools

    Siddhartha Yog, M.B.A. ’04, founder and managing partner of The Xander Group Inc., has given Harvard $11,000,001 to establish two professorships, fellowships and financial aid, and an intellectual entrepreneurship fund.

  • Science & Tech

    Growing strong

    Steven Wofsy and Andrew Richardson discuss New England’s still-growing forests and their role as a buffer against the effects of climate change.

  • Campus & Community

    Message to the Harvard community

    A message to the Harvard community from Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Provost Alan M. Garber regarding safety measures being taken following the decision by students and other members of the Harvard community to erect tents in the Yard to demonstrate their support for the Occupy movement.

  • Campus & Community

    Faith in good works

    Harvard undergraduates from many faiths will gather at the Student Organization Center at Hilles on Nov. 20 to package meals for hungry Boston-area children. The interfaith community service event is part of the Values in Action program launched this fall by Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy.

  • Health

    Cancer clues from another species

    Researchers have decoded the genome of an unlikely ally in the fight against cancer and aging, the naked mole rat, to find clues on why it resists the disease and lives 10 times as long as ordinary mice.

  • Science & Tech

    America’s first time zone

    The Harvard College Observatory built its foundation in the mid-1800s, after an epidemic of train wrecks prompted the railroads to seek a regional standard for greater accuracy and safety.

  • Campus & Community

    Lights, cameras, reaction

    Harvard Kennedy School students train to be leaders in the public sector — with the emphasis on public. A popular program makes the spotlight, whether in front of a camera, an audience, or a keyboard, less intimidating.

  • Arts & Culture

    Scaling up, and down

    Harvard physicist Lisa Randall helped to develop an offbeat new show at the Carpenter Center that explores the concept of size, through scientific and artistic lenses

  • Campus & Community

    The lasting lure of logic

    Statistics Professor Joseph Blitzstein teaches the art of teaching, while making a complex subject accessible.