Featured series 
All articles
-
Arts & Culture
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government Peterson traces American public schools through their reformers, and addresses a new era of virtual learning in which families have greater choice and control over their children’s education than ever.
-
Campus & Community
A look inside: Currier House
Mara Cavallaro lives in Currier House in the Radcliffe Quad with her parents, Nadejda Marques, a research coordinator at the Harvard School of Public Health, and James Cavallaro, a clinical professor of law. Her parents are the interim Currier House masters.
-
Campus & Community
25 years of service
Viva Fisher and Clif Colby are two of dozens of Harvard staff and faculty being honored at the 56th annual recognition ceremony.
-
Arts & Culture
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, backtracks to 18th century Paris and the police crackdown on poetry. But verse persevered through a “viral” network of citizens, who smuggled poetry by any means they could.
-
Campus & Community
HKS receives $1 million
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government announced a $1 million gift from the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. The gift will be used to launch a new graduate fellowship that will support emerging leaders from the United Arab Emirates.
-
Campus & Community
Relaxation station
The Center for Wellness has a new space in Harvard’s Holyoke Center, but its focus on health and quality of life remain the same.
-
Campus & Community
MessageMe test today
On Thursday (Oct. 7) the Harvard MessageMe emergency notification system will be tested. All MessageMe registered subscribers will receive a test message between noon and 1 p.m.
-
Campus & Community
Fancy footwork
Carl Junot, the new head coach of men’s soccer, is excited about the Crimson’s season on the heels of the hotly watched FIFA World Cup.
-
Campus & Community
Belarusian scholar enrolls at GSAS
Volha Charnysh, a 2010 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholar, has enrolled at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Charnysh has dedicated her life to nuclear disarmament and is editor of a publication for Belarusians in the United States.
-
Arts & Culture
Spouting off
In their new book, “Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource,” Peter Rogers and Susan Leal outline water’s global predicament as the world’s population soars to 8 billion.
-
Campus & Community
Washington comes to Norway
S. Allen Counter has successfully nominated Denzel Washington to host the Nobel Peace Prize Concert and Ceremonies on Dec. 10.
-
Science & Tech
Sustaining the cities
An interdisciplinary Harvard working group on sustainable cities is in search of some organizational details, but is already certain of its urgent mission.
-
Health
Figuring out suicidal behavior
Matthew Nock is a new professor of psychology at Harvard who uses scientific research to try to determine which medical treatments help to prevent suicide.
-
Nation & World
Bright ideas
Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.
-
Campus & Community
Halberstam honored with square
A square at the intersection of Linden, Bow, and Mt. Auburn streets has been named in honor of the late David L. Halberstam ’55, a journalist who wrote for The Harvard Crimson as an undergraduate.
-
Campus & Community
Marc Morial delivers Dunlop Lecture
Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League spoke at Harvard on Oct. 4.
-
Campus & Community
‘The Economic Crisis, Two Years Later’
Harvard panel on Oct. 12 will review the harsh economy and the nation’s responses to it.
-
Campus & Community
Edmond J. Safra graduate fellowships in ethics 2011-12
Applications are invited from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion.
-
Arts & Culture
When photography became art
This season’s In-Sight Evenings begin at the Harvard Art Museums, mixing a freewheeling soiree with an inspired lecture.
-
Science & Tech
‘Breathtakingly awful’
With 8 million orphans living in institutions worldwide, an ongoing Harvard study highlights the devastating effect institutionalization has on children, providing support for a switch to foster care.
-
Campus & Community
Khanna to head South Asia Initiative
The South Asia Initiative welcomed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, as its new director.
-
Arts & Culture
Harvard Humanities 2.0
A $10 million gift to the Humanities Center at Harvard will help bring the traditional arts of interpretation to more students.
-
Nation & World
Sex work in Asia
Conference on “Sex Work in Asia,” hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard Medical School, discusses issue involving more than 8 million people.
-
Nation & World
The first draft of history
A doctoral student recounts her overseas summer internship researching Kenya’s colonial history for a new exhibit.
-
Health
Hunting the missing health link
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are launching a study of 100,000 patients to determine the link among genetics, lifestyle, and environmental factors in causing disease.
-
Campus & Community
Benjamin Kaplan Memorial Service
A memorial service to celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Kaplan, Royall Professor of Law Emeritus, will be held on Oct. 25 at 5 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall at Harvard Law School.
-
Nation & World
The Supreme Court’s new dynamic
A question-and-answer session with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and professor Noah Feldman discusses the arrival of former dean Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the likely issues for the year ahead in American jurisprudence.
-
Science & Tech
Simple beauties of math (yes, math)
Mathematics Professor Shing-Tung Yau tells how he discovered the Calabi-Yau manifold, a mysterious but important mathematical concept important in string theory.
-
Campus & Community
Mahindra gives $10M for Humanities Center
Anand Mahindra ’77, M.B.A.’81, has given Harvard $10 million to support the Humanities Center in honor of his mother, Indira Mahindra. The newly renamed Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard is housed in the Barker Center.
