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  • Health

    The battle of the butts

    Gregory Connolly and the HSPH Center for Global Tobacco Control conduct research around the world to illuminate ongoing health problems caused by tobacco.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Dunster House

    Of Dunster House’s three major yearly events, those being its “Messiah” sing, the Dunster House opera, and the spring goat roast, it is the tradition of the roast that sets it apart from the other Houses.

  • Arts & Culture

    Rescuing ancient languages

    Harvard Linguistics Professor Maria Polinsky and her lab team work to understand and preserve ancient Mayan tongues, with the help of native speakers.

  • Campus & Community

    Making the ‘ride’ choice

    Two start-up companies have partnered with Harvard’s CommuterChoice Program to make auto use — for long trips, quick jaunts, or daily commutes — easier.

  • Campus & Community

    Reinhold Brinkmann

    Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, taught in the Department of Music at Harvard University from 1985 until his retirement in 2003, serving, after 1990, as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music and, from…

  • Campus & Community

    Radcliffe welcomes 2011-12 fellows

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has selected 51 fellows for the 2011-12 year.

  • Arts & Culture

    Truth, beauty, goodness

    In his latest book, prolific Professor Howard Gardner insists that the enduring values of truth, beauty, and goodness remain humanity’s bedrock.

  • Campus & Community

    Barrington Moore Jr.

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Barrington Moore, Jr., retired Senior Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center and Senior Lecturer on Sociology, was placed upon the records. Moore was a leader in comparative historical sociology and…

  • Campus & Community

    Hail fellows, well met

    The Harvard College Fellowship Program has proven to be a boon to students, academic departments across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the fellows themselves, many of whom have gone on to land tenure-track faculty positions in a tough job market.

  • Campus & Community

    Committing to customer services

    The new Campus Service Center has merged Harvard University Housing, ID Card services, and the Parking Office in one convenient Holyoke Center location.

  • Arts & Culture

    Tocqueville’s Discovery of America

    Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor on Literature Leo Damrosch retraces the nine-month journey through America by historian Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” who cannily predicted the growing social unrest toward slavery in America.

  • Health

    Old specimens, fresh answers

    A project details changing levels of mercury in endangered albatrosses and highlights the importance of museum specimens in understanding past conditions.

  • Campus & Community

    HAA announces Harvard Medalists

    The Harvard Alumni Association will award the Harvard Medal to Albert Carnesale ’78 (hon.), Frances Fergusson ’66, Ph.D. ’73, and Peter Malkin ’55, J.D. ’58, on May 26.

  • Arts & Culture

    Andrew Johnson

    Professor of Law Annette Gordon-Reed tackles one of the worst presidents in American history, claiming that his own racism was to blame for his shoddy performance during the Reconstruction era.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Aging Intellect

    In this important book, Douglas H. Powell, a clinical instructor in psychology, discusses lifestyle habits and attitudes linked to cognitive aging, and provides evidence-based strategies to minimize mental decline.

  • Campus & Community

    Wholly (and holy) organic

    Harvard Divinity School has a new blessing, a pluralist plot of paradise, in its own community garden.

  • Campus & Community

    Athlete for life

    Claire Richardson ’11 is an unusual example of what happens after college athletes graduate. Eligible to continue competing in college because of a year lost to injury, she’s headed to Georgetown for graduate school, and more running.

  • Campus & Community

    Where money meets politics

    James M. Snyder Jr., an economist and Harvard’s newest professor of government, is a student of American elections, where he finds that campaign contributions don’t have the sway you might suppose.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard College Professorships for 5

    Honor provides support for research, recognizes outstanding teaching of undergraduates.

  • Campus & Community

    Work by day, write by night

    Matthew Salesses, a faculty and staff assistant at Harvard Kennedy School, moonlights as an up-and-coming fiction writer, editor, columnist, and, soon, a new dad.

  • Campus & Community

    High yield for Class of ’15

    Nearly 77 percent of students admitted to Harvard opt to attend the College, up from last year’s 75.5 percent.

  • Nation & World

    Venturing forth

    Harvard Business School has long known that many of its graduates found companies. But in the wake of Wall Street’s recent meltdown — and at a time when starting a new venture has become far easier — campus culture is embracing entrepreneurship in a big way.

  • Nation & World

    More roads to travel

    In an Askwith Forum address, longtime children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman said there are still many reasons to be alarmed at the grim landscape facing many African-American and Latino children, with 80 percent reaching high school without reading proficiency.

  • Nation & World

    The next big things

    BOSS Medical Working with Johns Hopkins researchers and physicians, M.B.A. students Romish Badani and Derek Poppinga have developed a minimally invasive device to extract bone grafts. If approved by the…

  • Campus & Community

    Honor for Native American

    Harvard University plans to honor Joel Iacoomes, one of the first Native Americans ever to attend the College, with a special posthumous degree at its 2011 Commencement exercises on May 26. Iacoomes died shortly before Commencement in 1665.

  • Campus & Community

    Radcliffe rugby crowned national champ

    The Radcliffe Rugby Football Club has been crowned the 2011 USA Rugby DII National Champion after an incredible matchup against Notre Dame.

  • Campus & Community

    Two Harvard students named Hertz Fellows

    The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced the selection of its 2011-12 Hertz Fellows, including Harvard students Megan Blewett and Jesse Engreitz.

  • Arts & Culture

    What books mean as objects

    Most literature professors focus on the interpretation of texts, but Professor Leah Price wants to explore other uses to which books can be put, in the evolving interplay between reading and handling.

  • Science & Tech

    Holder’s mission

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on May 6 talked to a Harvard audience about youth exposure to violence as a public health issue — and the need for a public health response.

  • Health

    First U.S. full face transplant patient

    Dallas Wiens, who in March became the first person in the United States to receive a full face transplant, described the simple joys of holding his daughter, Scarlette, and smelling lasagna again as he prepared to leave Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital Monday (May 9) for his Texas home.