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Health
Economic impact of living with a smoker
Children who live in households where they are exposed to tobacco smoke miss more days of school than do children living in smoke-free homes, a new nationwide study confirms.
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Health
Advances in type 2 diabetes drugs
Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Fla., report they have created prototype drugs having powerful anti-diabetic effects, yet apparently free — at least in mice — of dangerous side effects plaguing some current diabetes medications.
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Nation & World
New hope for Libyan democracy
Middle East experts are optimistic that democracy may yet flourish in war-torn Libya, now that leader Moammar Gadhafi has been deposed.
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Campus & Community
Hammonds challenges students
At Morning Prayers in the Memorial Church Sept. 2, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds said that students should stretch beyond their comfort zones to make Harvard a truly inclusive place, and argued that the College’s new “Class of 2015 Pledge” was an important part of the effort to encourage them to do so.
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Campus & Community
HKS announces Fisher Family Fellows
The Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has announced the 2011 Fisher Family Fellows.
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Nation & World
The spirit of service
Hundreds of new students descended on the Harvard Kennedy School campus for their first day of classes Aug. 31. That night, a group of illustrious alumni harnessed that energy in a candid dialogue on the challenges and rewards of a career in public service. The talk was a kickoff for the Kennedy School’s 75th anniversary.
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Campus & Community
Harvard increases financial aid to low-income students
Harvard College will expand its investment in undergraduate financial aid this year by more than $10 million, providing a record $166 million in need-based scholarships to undergraduates. Beginning in the fall of 2012, financial aid will be further increased for low-income students by raising the income level under which parents pay nothing for the cost…
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Arts & Culture
‘Porgy and Bess,’ made new
A.R.T. reimagines the classic Gershwin opera, with help from some Harvard undergraduates.
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Science & Tech
From a flat mirror, designer light
Using a new technique, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centuries-old laws of reflection and refraction.
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Nation & World
How they spent summer
Harvard students and instructors spent their summers in a myriad of ways, and places.
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Campus & Community
Graham to step down as Divinity dean
After almost a decade as dean of Harvard Divinity School, William A. Graham plans to step down at the end of this academic year. He will take a year’s leave and then return to teaching.
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Arts & Culture
Black Confederates
A Harvard historian weighs in on a controversy about “black Confederates,” describing how many there were and what meaning they have in an ongoing debate over the causes of the Civil War.
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Campus & Community
At Ed School, it’s easy being green
Graduate School of Education continues its leadership in the greening of Harvard.
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Science & Tech
With the Earth as teacher
Students in Earth and Planetary Sciences kicked off their academic year early, spending a late-August week in paradise, observing Hawaii’s volcanoes, green and black sand beaches, and overarching geologic splendor.
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Campus & Community
‘Dazzling’ fall fellows invade Shorenstein Center
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard Kennedy School, has announced its fall fellows.
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Campus & Community
Mossavar-Rahmani Center welcomes new fellows
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School has welcomed a new crop of fellows.
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Campus & Community
How doctors think, past and present
Physician and historian David Jones works to bridge the gap between medical science and the social forces that shape it, as Harvard’s first A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine.
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Campus & Community
A moving experience
As Hurricane Irene moved up the East Coast, residents of Currier House raced to move in before the storm arrived.
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Arts & Culture
On summer break, a poem
An undergraduate on summer break is inspired to write a poem celebrating Harvard’s 375th anniversary.
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Campus & Community
Calling the ‘summer dogs’
After a summer of workouts, Harvard football players look to their opening game against Holy Cross, hoping to create a season to remember.
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Campus & Community
Finding meaning in loss
Jennifer Page Hughes, a psychologist at the Bureau of Study Counsel, coped with a senseless death by helping others — from Harvard students to the families of 9/11 victims — deal with grief.
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Campus & Community
How Harvard celebrated
A look at how Harvard has celebrated some previous anniversaries.
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Campus & Community
A party starts 375th celebrations
Entertainment, food, festivities highlight October gathering.
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Nation & World
Justice for Kenya’s Mau Mau
As a human rights group seeks justice for veterans of an anticolonialist rebellion, a Harvard historian helps to make the case.
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Science & Tech
Wake-up call
Insomnia is costing the average U.S. worker 11.3 days, or $2,280, in lost productivity every year, according to a study led by Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School.
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Campus & Community
Banner year ahead
Harvard gears up to celebrate an event-filled 375th anniversary, embracing what President Faust calls a “tradition of imaginative change.”
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Campus & Community
A portrait of change
Preston Williams was honored with a new portrait in Andover Hall. The picture of Williams, the Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus, is part of the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project.
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Campus & Community
University leaders welcome freshmen
Harvard’s annual convocation ceremony gives members of the Class of 2015 their first taste of the University’s history and traditions.
