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  • Health

    Sick to death

    Harvard School of Public Health researchers are mounting a major study of chronic disease in four African nations, which organizers hope will provide a foundation for understanding and treating chronic ailments like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

  • Health

    Across 160 years, Darwin speaks

    The discovery of an unknown 1848 letter by the great naturalist sheds light on a murky part of his life, and on a friendship that eventually went awry.

  • Campus & Community

    Room for improvement

    After two losing seasons, Harvard hockey coach Ted Donato is confident in his team’s strengths and winning ability.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective

    Disco, drugs, and decadence? Not that 1970s. This book, by Harvard mainstays Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, and Erez Manela focuses on the decade that introduced the world to the phenomenon of “globalization,” as networks of interdependence bound peoples and societies in new and original ways.

  • Campus & Community

    Administrator by day, singer by night

    Karen Woodward Massey, director of education and outreach at FAS Research Administration Services (RAS), has always needed a creative outlet from her “right-brain” work. From ingénue roles to a staff cover band, the Grateful Deadlines, one thing remains the same: She has a ton of fun along the way.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard College Librarian, Nancy Cline, to retire

    After nearly 15 years of exceptional service, Nancy M. Cline, the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, will retire at the end of this academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Don’t just stand there

    It’s easy enough to say you value diversity, but honoring that goal can be tricky in context. A workshop on bystander awareness offered strategies on what to do when diversity is challenged in the workplace.

  • Arts & Culture

    Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

    Augustus A. White III, a pioneering black surgeon and the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education, and contributor David Chanoff use extensive research and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious stereotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and treatment.

  • Arts & Culture

    Unraveling Reconstruction

    Professor sifts post-Civil War writings for societal clues that give context to a troubled time in American life.

  • Campus & Community

    Back from Afghanistan

    A veteran, now a midcareer student at the Harvard Kennedy School, reflects on the values that his military peers bring to campus. Still, when a sharp noise splits the air, he ducks.

  • Campus & Community

    Aid groups that make a difference

    The Harvard Community Gifts Giving Fair brought to campus many local organizations whose missions are helping those in need.

  • Campus & Community

    Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility releases annual report

    Harvard’s 2010 annual report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility.

  • Arts & Culture

    Ye olde information overload

    Before digital technology existed, scholars centuries ago beat their desks in frustration over being inundated with data too, according to Ann Blair, author of “Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.”

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Kirkland House

    Holiday festivities are in high gear at Kirkland House.

  • Science & Tech

    Digital drive

    Across the University, digitization is rapidly changing the nature of scholarship, opening doors to information and collaboration, and redefining research and education.

  • Science & Tech

    Nearer, better

    Through analyzing the locations of authors of academic papers, researchers have determined that physical proximity of collaborators, especially between the first and last author, correlates with how widely the paper is cited.

  • Science & Tech

    Poor prospects

    Small and midsize cities in poor countries will be among those that suffer most from climate change’s droughts, floods, landslides, and rising waters, an expert on the world’s urban poor said in a talk at Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies.

  • Campus & Community

    Hyman to step down as provost

    Provost Steven E. Hyman, who spurred an expansion of interdisciplinary research at Harvard and has overseen the revitalization of the University’s libraries and many of its museums and cultural institutions, plans to leave his post after nearly a decade.

  • Campus & Community

    Law firm honors deceased partner

    Law firm Andrews Kurth LLP has created the Richard H. Caldwell Financial Aid Fund, named after its deceased senior partner Richard Caldwell, a 1963 graduate of Harvard Law School.

  • Campus & Community

    Rockefeller fellows chosen for 2011-12

    The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors.

  • Science & Tech

    Squeezing life into patients

    Engineers at Duke and Harvard universities have developed a “magnetic sponge” that after implantation into a patient can “squeeze” out drugs, cells, or other agents when passed over by a magnet.

  • Science & Tech

    Like computer science, only cooler

    More than 500 students in the introductory computer science course CS 50 descended on the Northwest Science Building for a music-thumping, popcorn-eating fair where students showed off their projects.

  • Campus & Community

    10 named to new Harvard Library Board

    President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.

  • Campus & Community

    Michael P. Burke appointed FAS registrar

    Michael P. Burke has been appointed the new registrar for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 31.

  • Health

    Perspectives on global health

    Media mogul Ted Turner and Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk kicked off a new Internet-focused communication effort by discussing problems in global health.

  • Health

    Cholera strain tied to South Asia

    A team of researchers has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial samples from South Asia and not those from Latin America.

  • Nation & World

    Six years a hostage

    Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt offered a gripping discussion of her six years held hostage by the FARC rebel group during a discussion at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.

  • Science & Tech

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists

    Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

  • Campus & Community

    HIO seeks international art

    The Harvard International Office is seeking submissions of international art for an exhibit. The deadline is Jan. 9.

  • Science & Tech

    At last, the edible science fair

    Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, and biology to manipulate recipes and create foods that stretch the imagination.