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  • Campus & Community

    Bill Richardson named IOP spring visiting fellow

    Former governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson has been named a spring visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard and ROTC

    At Harvard, military service is regarded as a form of public service. The University’s long history with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has provided generations of students with formative leadership opportunities, and it has provided the military with some of its best-educated officers.

  • Campus & Community

    Signing ceremony welcomes ROTC

    After a 40-year hiatus, Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, according to an agreement signed Friday (March 4) by President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, J.D. ’76.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard welcomes back ROTC

    Harvard President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus today (March 4) signed an agreement that will re-establish the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) formal presence on campus for the first time in nearly 40 years.

  • Campus & Community

    ROTC on campus

    When introducing Adm. Mike Mullen at a Harvard Kennedy School forum Nov. 17, 2010, Harvard President Drew Faust said, “I want to be the president of Harvard who sees the end of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ because I want to be able to take the steps to ensure that any and every Harvard student is…

  • Science & Tech

    Cultivating trouble

    Only 39 percent of the nearly 10,000 North American plant species threatened with extinction are being maintained in collections, according to the first comprehensive listing of the threatened plant species in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard welcomes back ROTC

    Harvard University announced on Thursday (March 3) that it will formally welcome the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program back to campus, following the decision by Congress in December to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law regarding military service.

  • Science & Tech

    Cutting the military’s energy tether

    Fueling America’s war effort is an expensive proposition, costing not only money but lives, since supply convoys are routinely attacked. The constraints imposed by an energy-hungry military prompted the Defense Department to investigate conservation techniques.

  • Campus & Community

    38 honored with Dean’s Distinction

    Some of Harvard’s most impressive “unsung heroes” took the spotlight on Wednesday (March 2), when 38 Faculty of Arts and Sciences staff members were honored with Dean’s Distinction awards.

  • Arts & Culture

    Notes from underground

    Historian and former Quincy House tutor John McMillian’s new book chronicles the massive ’60s “youthquake” and the rise of radical underground publications.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS announces student start-up competition winners

    Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced nine winners of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Funding, a new pilot program offering $50,000 in total awards to student entrepreneurs working on projects during the School’s winter term.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Neighbors Gallery seeks artists for 2011-12 season

    The Harvard Neighbors Gallery is seeking Harvard artists for the 2011-12 season. Located at Loeb House, 17 Quincy St., Harvard Neighbors provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists to show their works.

  • Campus & Community

    National Humanities Medals awarded

    Emeritus professors Daniel Aaron and Bernard Bailyn are two of 10 winners of the 2010 National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama.

  • Campus & Community

    Obama honors Robert Brustein

    The American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) founding director Robert Brustein was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House on March 2.

  • Campus & Community

    Top-down approach

    Efforts to promote sustainability at the Graduate School of Design include composting, freecycle, racks, and a green roof at Gund Hall.

  • Science & Tech

    America’s Eden that wasn’t

    A new history of science course on the environment moves past the fictions of an unspoiled earlier time of discovery and settlement.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Winthrop House

    Winthrop House residents crowded into the House Junior Common Room on a recent Sunday night to attend the inaugural Winthrop Winter Showcase. An impressive array of performances ensued, with dance dominating the evening.

  • Arts & Culture

    Cities on a hill

    Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, who was raised in New York City, is an advocate of the metropolis, and upends the myths that cities are unhealthy, poor, and environmentally unfriendly in his book “Triumph of the City.”

  • Campus & Community

    Leon Eisenberg

    Leon Eisenberg was a professor of psychiatry and chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

  • Arts & Culture

    Constructing the International Economy

    Rawi Abdelal, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and co-editors parse the ways political and economic forces are interpreted globally by agents, and seek to understand just how the economy is constructed.

  • Campus & Community

    Stuart T. Hauser

    Stuart T. Hauser, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally acclaimed expert in adolescent development, died at age 70 on August 5, 2008, of complications following surgery for esophageal cancer. He was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist at Judge Baker Children’s Center, and Co-Director of the Clinical Research Training Program in Social and Biological…

  • Science & Tech

    Chips, efficient and fast

    Professor Gu-Yeon Wei explores energy-efficient computing devices that are fast but draw minimal power.

  • Health

    Child prodigies, maybe

    Study suggests our assumptions about natural talent can influence our judgments, overlooking and undervaluing the impact of hard work.

  • Nation & World

    The man from Kyrgyzstan

    Historian Baktybek Beshimov, a former diplomat and parliamentarian, fled political unrest in his homeland to research and write in Harvard’s Scholars at Risk program.

  • Campus & Community

    A lift before the move

    Low-interest loans, provided by the Harvard University Employees Credit Union through the the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, offer University employees an added monetary boost when life hits.

  • Campus & Community

    Not so different after all

    Marines in Iraq, students at Harvard are alike in wondering: Where do their lives go next?

  • Campus & Community

    A lifelong love of African art

    The Peabody Museum’s Monni Adams, 90, continues to research and publish in her field, now focusing on African masks.

  • Arts & Culture

    Imagination and Logos: Essays on C.P. Cavafy

    Panagiotis Roilos, professor of Modern Greek studies and of comparative literature, edits this volume of essays by international scholars exploring the work of C.P. Cavafy, one of the most important 20th century European poets.

  • Arts & Culture

    Putting things in their place

    Two professors shake up Harvard’s museum collections with a new course and exhibit that aim to challenge the ways in which tangible things are classified in traditional categories.

  • Arts & Culture

    Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

    Understanding attack strategies and how to prepare for them will help get your idea off the ground, according to this book by John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Emeritus, and co-author Lorne Whitehead.