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  • Campus & Community

    Guides on the undergraduate quest

    Advising programs enable students to get the most from their undergraduate academic experience, encouraging students to think in terms of their long-term personal and intellectual development.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone

    With illustrations and archaeological context, Barbara Fash, director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum, discusses the global significance of a Honduran museum dedicated to the ancient Maya stone carvings in Copan.

  • Campus & Community

    A chance at an Ivy title

    After an inconsistent season and a late win streak, the women’s soccer team has two games left. Its eye is on the prize, the league championship.

  • Campus & Community

    A room fit for a president

    A Winthrop House suite that once housed the young John F. Kennedy gets a facelift, and recreates the room as the future U.S leader would have known it.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    In this wave-making book, Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt takes into account “On the Nature of Things,” an eerily modern poem by the ancient Roman writer Lucretius, which helped shape the great thinkers of the Renaissance, even if fewer than three copies of the poem were known to exist at the time.

  • Arts & Culture

    A magic wand for artists’ dreams

    With an annual program administered by the Office for the Arts, Harvard undergraduates explore extraordinary opportunities for growth in their fields.

  • Arts & Culture

    Enduring inspiration

    Richard Olivier, son of famed actor Sir Laurence Olivier, used Shakespeare’s “Henry V” to teach Harvard students about the role of identity in conflict in Sever Hall Oct. 24. The presentation was part of “Negotiation and Conflict Management,” a course that focuses on the emotional and identity-based aspects of conflict that often confound easy resolution.

  • Campus & Community

    A gala for Dudley at 20

    Dudley House, thriving and lively at age 20, is the “Mother House” model for Ivy League grad school centers.

  • Campus & Community

    A Boston school turnaround

    The Boston Public Schools’ Greenwood Academy has shown major improvement in two years, aided by the HASI program and Step UP, the five-university initiative that provides resources for 10 underperforming Boston public schools.

  • Science & Tech

    Fewer drops to drink

    With water scarcity a growing worldwide worry, Harvard programs, faculty, staff, and students are exploring ways to protect precious supplies, both globally and on campus.

  • Health

    Nose to nose with mental illness

    Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall talked to a Harvard audience about his struggles with mental illness in a forum at Emerson Hall Oct. 24.

  • Nation & World

    Lessons from a Kenyan slum

    A sprawling urban pocket of poverty offers a timeless lesson: talent is universal, but opportunity is not.

  • Campus & Community

    Historic theater to be renamed

    Harvard University announced today that it will rename its historic New College Theatre building Farkas Hall in recognition of the generosity of alumnus Andrew L. Farkas ’82.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘The Creation of Mather’

    In celebration of the creation of Mather House some 40 years ago, Co-Masters Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten have organized a retrospective exhibit of the House’s design and construction in the Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey Three Columns Gallery.

  • Science & Tech

    A tool to touch the sun

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researcher Justin Kasper has designed an instrument that will peek out from behind a heat shield to touch the sun’s atmosphere on a NASA solar probe designed to get far closer to the sun than any before.

  • Campus & Community

    Art Museums gifted ‘outsider art’

    The Harvard Art Museums received a gift of 38 drawings, paintings, and sculpture from Didi and David Barrett’s 20th-century collection of American self-taught, folk, and outsider art.

  • Campus & Community

    French Consul honors Adams House affiliate

    Norman R. Shapiro ’51, an affiliate of Adams House, was recognized by the French Consul for a lifetime dedicated to translation and the spread of French culture.

  • Health

    Gestational BPA exposure growing concern

    Exposure in the womb to bisphenol A (BPA) — a chemical used to make plastic containers and other consumer goods — is associated with behavior and emotional problems in young girls, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Health

    Food reform to fight obesity

    Panelists at a Harvard School of Public Health Forum Oct. 20 said that changing agriculture policy may be necessary to reform the nation’s diet, which is blamed for worsening current epidemics of obesity and diabetes.

  • Campus & Community

    Small changes, big effects

    More than 50 administrators and staff gathered in University Hall Oct. 20 for the first of three Diversity Dialogues, a series of seminars focusing on ways to build and maintain a diverse community throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard’s 375th birthday party

    Drenching rain doused the revelers celebrating Harvard’s 375th anniversary in Tercentenary Theatre and other venues on Oct. 14. But spirits never dampened as alumni, students, faculty, and staff noshed on pretzels dipped in chocolate and ice cream made with liquid nitrogen.

  • Campus & Community

    Hidden Spaces: Newell Boathouse

    Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. This installment is Harvard’s Newell Boathouse. Possibly nowhere on Harvard’s campus will you find a place as untouched and nostalgic as Newell.

  • Nation & World

    Frank look at marijuana laws

    Prohibitions on marijuana use do more harm than good, and it’s time the federal government stepped away from the issue altogether, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told a crowd at Harvard Law School Oct. 18.

  • Health

    A child’s memory in military time

    Harvard specialists discussed research on memory development during a seminar aimed at helping military families talk to their children about deployments and homecomings.

  • Campus & Community

    Achievement recognized by academy

    Twenty Harvard professors are among 179 of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at an Oct. 1 ceremony in Cambridge.

  • Campus & Community

    For $1,000, who won on ‘Jeopardy!’?

    Sure, Harvard undergraduates have the opportunity to learn from leaders in their fields, including Nobel laureates, global leaders, and world-class scholars, who all teach in the University’s classrooms. Thanks to Joon Pahk, a preceptor in physics, students can add a new academic feat to that list: seven-time “Jeopardy” champion.

  • Campus & Community

    $40 million gift supports new university-wide initiative for innovation in learning and teaching

    Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given Harvard University $40 million to establish a new initiative that will support innovative teaching and learning across the University.

  • Science & Tech

    You’re not so anonymous

    Prescription data stripped of identify information seems not so anonymous after all. Researcher Latanya Sweeney aims to make such personal data more secure and to provide recourse for people who are harmed by privacy breaches.

  • Campus & Community

    Education and innovation

    Harvard University announced today that Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given the University $40 million to support excellence and innovation in learning and teaching at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Bailyn receives Samuel Eliot Morison Award

    Adams University Professor Emeritus Bernard Bailyn received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the USS Constitution Museum’s highest recognition for scholarship.