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  • Arts & Culture

    Art by degrees

    Three Harvard graduates, now practicing artists, bring home lessons learned, along with a quirky exhibit.

  • Arts & Culture

    Scholarship beyond words

    Harvard classes and a new journal embrace an emerging wave of doctoral learning beyond the written word that uses film, photo, audio, and other communication channels.

  • Arts & Culture

    Glimpses of screenwriting

    Harvard grad Roland Tec, a filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and Harvard graduate, explored the inner workings of his craft during a January arts intensive.

  • Nation & World

    Shock amid the service

    A winter break trip to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico shows the realities of poverty to a group of Harvard undergraduates.

  • Arts & Culture

    An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

    Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France.

  • Arts & Culture

    What Is Mental Illness?

    Richard McNally, a professor of psychology, explores the many contemporary attempts to define what mental disorder really is, and offers questions for patients and professionals alike to help understand and cope with the sorrows and psychopathologies of everyday life.

  • Nation & World

    Turning on the lights

    Like much of Africa, Liberia relies on ineffective, dirty sources of energy. Coming off a fellowship at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey has one big goal: to transform the country’s electrical grid from the bottom up.

  • Campus & Community

    HRES establishes 2011-12 rents for Harvard University housing

    In accordance with the University’s fair market rent policy, Harvard Real Estate Services has announced the proposed rent for Harvard University Housing for 2011-12.

  • Campus & Community

    From Russia, with love

    A Harvard student leader travels to Russia for a firsthand look at how that country’s government works.

  • Nation & World

    Changing how teachers improve

    A new initiative headed by a Harvard scholar aims to transform the way teachers improve their performance, and to overhaul the nation’s public schools in the process.

  • Science & Tech

    Guiding discoveries to the public

    Harvard’s Office of Technology Development tries to ensure that the public sees the benefits of Harvard’s research by licensing new technology to companies.

  • Science & Tech

    Innovate, create

    From oddities like breathable chocolate to history-making devices with profound societal effects, like the heart pacemaker, Harvard’s combination of questing minds, restless spirits, and intellectual seekers fosters creativity and innovation that’s finding an outlet in new inventions and companies.

  • Campus & Community

    A break with the past

    Harvard undergraduates and College administrators are looking back on winter break 2011 to evaluate the many new programs, and to ponder changes. One thing is already clear: winter break provided experiences not usually available to students during the semester.

  • Campus & Community

    Winter storm update: Normal business operations and class schedules to resume

    Snow removal and storm related operations will continue this afternoon and tonight across the University to ensure roads, sidewalks, and buildings are accessible.  Harvard will resume normal business operations and…

  • Arts & Culture

    The master’s chair

    Liz Glynn is this year’s Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, a visiting artist position in place at VES since 1986. The idea: welcome a working artist for a week of intense interchange with students.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Made of fire’

    Harvard wrestlers work toward a turnaround after an early-season losing streak.

  • Campus & Community

    Winter storm update: Modified scheduling and staffing plans

    In response to the winter storm moving through the area, many Schools will either be canceling classes or operating on modified schedules on Wednesday. Students, faculty, and staff should check…

  • Campus & Community

    Help on the home front

    Harvard programs assist employees trying to juggle careers and families, bridging coverage gaps.

  • Arts & Culture

    Identity issues

    In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.

  • Nation & World

    Haiti: 3 Years, 6 Months

    Living in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, most of Haiti’s nine million people are subsistence farmers. Poverty and malnutrition are exacerbated by poor health care and a low vaccination rate.

  • Nation & World

    South Africa: Valley of 1,000 Hills

    One of the continent’s richest nations, South Africa also has one of the world’s highest HIV infection rates and is home to the world’s biggest population of HIV-infected people, an estimated 5.5 million.

  • Nation & World

    Lesotho: The Pilots

    The tiny African nation of Lesotho is among those hardest hit by the raging twin epidemics of ADIS and tuberculosis. Harvard faculty members are advising the government and helping to revamp clinics and treat patients in the far-flung mountain regions of this poor country.

  • Nation & World

    Mexico: Illuminating the Past

    Harvard archaeologists from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have been working in the Maya city of Copán Ruinas, Honduras, for years, unearthing the secrets of the civilization that once built pyramids there. In recent years, these archaeologists began digging at a new site, Rastrojón, perched on a mountainside where it would be visible…

  • Nation & World

    Mexico: Ancient Wisdom Examined

    Harvard archaeologists from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have been working in the Maya city of Copán Ruinas, Honduras, for years, unearthing the secrets of the civilization that once built pyramids there. In recent years, these archaeologists began digging at a new site, Rastrojón, perched on a mountainside where it would be visible…

  • Campus & Community

    The Moore’s the merrier

    It snowed on Julianne Moore’s parade, but the acclaimed actress and 2011 Woman of the Year didn’t let weather stop her from visiting Harvard for a tour, a roast, and the coveted Pudding Pot on Thursday (Jan. 27).

  • Campus & Community

    Daniel Bell, social scientist, 91

    Daniel Bell, the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and one of America’s most dynamic thinkers, died on Jan. 25. He was 91.

  • Nation & World

    After the uprising

    A pair of Harvard experts addressed unrest in Tunisia — and whether it will lead to a truly democratic government — in a panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Science & Tech

    Big thinkers

    Psychologists at Harvard University have found that infants younger than a year old understand social dominance and use relative size to predict who will prevail when two individuals’ goals conflict.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 26

    The Faculty Council met on Jan. 26 and heard reviews of the chemical biology program, the standing committee on writing and speaking, and the rules concerning honors.

  • Campus & Community

    Winter storm update: University resumes normal business operations

    As of 11 a.m., the University has resumed all normal business operations across Harvard’s Central Administration. Students, faculty, and staff are still encouraged to take any necessary precautions while traveling…