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  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    Kenneth L. Baughman

    Dr. Kenneth L. Baughman died on November 16, 2009, after being struck by an automobile while running during the American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Florida. His tragic death at age 63 threw into relief the enormous impact he had on the Harvard community in his seven years on our faculty, as the…

  • Nation & World

    Mau Mau at peace

    With a lawsuit against the British making its way through the courts, elderly Kenyan fighters share tales of battling the colonial regime.

  • Science & Tech

    Scientific research, artfully shown

    Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have embarked on an exploration unusual for space scientists — one involving art. A project probes how the presentation of images of space affects viewers’ appreciation and understanding of what’s happening in the pictures.

  • Campus & Community

    Doggone that stress

    Back-to-school pressures don’t rise just for students. Faculty and staff can feel the pinch too. A new therapy dog at Harvard Medical School is one of many creative solutions employed around the University.

  • Arts & Culture

    The disciplines of dance

    Harvard’s new director of the OFA Dance Program, Jill Johnson, brings a love of movement and a boundless curiosity to the post and a desire to connect her disciplines to a range of academic pursuits.

  • Campus & Community

    The grad students’ guru

    Over three decades, Cynthia Verba has advised hundreds of advanced students at Harvard. A scholar of French Enlightenment music in her own right, her guidance comes with more than a grain of salt.

  • Campus & Community

    Of brass and khakis

    Harvard’s NROTC midshipmen, from their first salute to their commissioning as officers, learn leadership and discipline during summer training and school-year classes.

  • Campus & Community

    Starting out green

    With a green tour and “brain break,” Harvard freshmen learn early about the importance of living sustainably.