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  • Health

    Animal scents

    A Harvard study of how mice respond to scent cues from potential mates, competitors, and nearby predators has laid a foundation for further investigations that may eventually lead to a greater understanding of social recognition in the animal brain, with implications for a host of human disorders ranging from autism to post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • Campus & Community

    Eight researchers win PECASE awards

    President Barack Obama named 94 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, including eight from Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Two named University Professors

    Rebecca M. Henderson of the Harvard Business School and Douglas Melton of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Medical School were named University Professors in recognition of their dedication to teaching and scholarship that crosses academic boundaries.

  • Campus & Community

    Winning with defense

    Harvard rolled to a 24-7 victory against Brown Sept. 23, knotting its season mark at 1-1. The win, after a 30-22 loss to Holy Cross on Sept. 17, was the program’s ninth straight on the heels of a defeat — Harvard hasn’t dropped back-to-back games since 2006.

  • Campus & Community

    Trot, trot through Allston

    The 8th annual Brian Honan 5K Run/Walk took place Sept. 25, complete with Harvard cheerleaders to boost the runners along.

  • Science & Tech

    Next big thing: Improved tiny tweezers

    Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a new device that creates strong forces more efficiently than traditional optical tweezers and eliminates a problem that caused earlier setups to overheat.

  • Nation & World

    Chile’s president pushes progress

    Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said during a Harvard Kennedy School speech on Sept. 23 that he hopes to lead Chile into the ranks of fully developed nations by the end of the decade.

  • Science & Tech

    The return to recycling

    Recycling was the norm before the Industrial Revolution’s creation of cheap consumer goods started to produce what eventually became the throwaway society, according to Susan Strasser, author of the book “Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.”

  • Campus & Community

    Touchdown, Fitzpatrick

    Buffalo Bills quarterback and Harvard alumnus Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 says he learned some of his most important life lessons while at the College. Including the end of last season, he has led the Bills to seven wins in their past 10 games. Years of patience and preparation are now paying off.

  • Campus & Community

    Receives Canada-U.S. Fulbright

    Steven Hoffman has been selected as one of the recipients of a 2011-12 Fulbright Canada Student Award.

  • Health

    The battle for medicine’s soul

    Author and surgeon Atul Gawande says effective medicine requires high-quality care and solid research. But it also requires a willingness to adapt.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Nixon in China’ and at Harvard

    Harvard President Drew Faust will host a panel discussion Nov. 15 with the alumni behind the groundbreaking opera “Nixon in China” as part of Harvard’s 375th anniversary celebration.

  • Campus & Community

    Eliot House

    Milling about the “Great Court” at Eliot House, students greeted old friends from last semester and new sophomores with enthusiasm. Games such as Frisbee broke out, and a few brave souls, including sophomore Kris Liu and junior Leah Reis-Dennis, sang or performed for their housemates.

  • Campus & Community

    Glenn Beck, Joel Klein, Amar’e Stoudamire and Others Reflect on Their Education

    During the opening days of my freshman year at Bryn Mawr College in the fall of 1964, I joined my classmates in a large Gothic hall to be greeted by…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard endowment posts big investment gain

    Harvard University’s endowment earned 21.4 percent on its investments for the year ended June 30, roughly in line with the financial performance of other large funds, the school’s money managers reported yesterday.

  • Campus & Community

    Oscar Handlin, historian, 95

    Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, died from a heart attack on Sept. 20 at his Cambridge home. He was 95.

  • Science & Tech

    He blended it with science

    Harvard professor and current Radcliffe fellow Michael Brenner explores the evolution of his wildly popular cooking course.

  • Campus & Community

    Search begins for new dean of Radcliffe Institute

    Letter from President Drew Faust to the Harvard community seeks input and nominations in the search for a new dean of Radcliffe Institute.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard University endowment earns 21.4 percent return for fiscal year

    Harvard University announced today that its endowment earned a 21.4 percent return for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011.

  • Health

    Improving health care in China, U.S.

    Health officials from China and the United States gathered at Harvard Medical School to examine common challenges and solutions as the two global giants seek to reform national health care systems to improve access and care, while lowering costs.

  • Nation & World

    Improving South African schooling

    Groups of educators and administrators from South Africa took part in a series of Harvard-sponsored programs, aimed at transforming leadership in that nation’s public schools.

  • Science & Tech

    Developing fast, but sustainably

    The Harvard Sustainability Science Program marked the beginning of its third phase Sept. 19 with a forum on issues facing the rapidly industrializing major nations of China, Brazil, and India.

  • Campus & Community

    Safra Center seeks fellowship applicants

    The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard is seeking applicants for the center’s graduate fellowships in ethics.

  • Science & Tech

    Following path of genetic footprint

    An international team of researchers studying DNA patterns from modern and archaic humans has found that the Denisovans, a recently discovered hominin group, contributed genes to several populations in Asia and that modern humans settled Asia in more than one migration.

  • Health

    A transplant makes history

    In 1954, Harvard surgeons at the Brigham performed the first successful organ transfer, a kidney exchanged between twins, opening a major medical field, and giving life and hope to thousands of patients.

  • Campus & Community

    Dig this

    Harvard senior volleyball player Christine Wu, set to become the team’s all-time leader in digs — or saving passes — hopes to make the pros before heading to medical school.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Eliot House

    Named in honor of Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, Eliot House was opened in 1931. It was one of the original seven Houses at the College following the plan by Eliot’s successor, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, to “revitalize education and revive egalitarianism at Harvard College.”

  • Campus & Community

    A college degree is not optional

    A Harvard Extension School student, the first in her family to complete her studies, reflects on the parental advice that helped her along the way.

  • Nation & World

    Recording a horrific history

    Through its Nuremberg Trials Project, the Harvard Law School Library is digitizing parts of a massive trove of records from the postwar trials of high-ranking Nazi political and military leaders.

  • Campus & Community

    The naked truth

    Archaeologist studies classical Greek art, including nudity, and what it reveals about the cultures interpreting it.