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  • Arts & Culture

    How to get happy

    Former Harvard President Derek Bok and his wife Sissela, a Harvard fellow, discussed their recent books on happiness in a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

  • Nation & World

    The way forward

    Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs, delivered messages of cooperation and inclusiveness while elaborating on his six principles for Turkey’s future at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Corporation looks ahead

    It is a time of change for the Harvard Corporation. In recent months, the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, has welcomed a new member and a new senior fellow, even as it has undertaken a probing look at its own role and practices. President…

  • Health

    It all adds up

    New mathematical modeling by scientists from Harvard and other institutions reinforces the view of cancer as a complex culmination of many mutations.

  • Health

    Challenge of finding a cure

    A large, multidisciplinary panel has recently selected 12 pioneering ideas for attacking type 1 diabetes, ideas selected through a crowdsourcing experiment called the “Challenge,” in which all members of the Harvard community, as well as members of the general public, were invited to answer the question: What do we not know to cure type 1…

  • Nation & World

    The value of women

    If slavery and totalitarianism were the great moral issues of the 19th and 20th centuries, then the worldwide oppression of women and girls will be the defining issue of the 21st, said Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, in a talk at Harvard Medical School’s Carl Walter Amphitheater.

  • Campus & Community

    High marks for doctoral programs

    A national group rates Harvard’s doctoral programs highly in a sweeping new report.

  • Campus & Community

    Friedman named director of Arboretum

    William “Ned” Friedman, an evolutionary biologist who has done extensive research on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants, has been appointed director of the Arnold Arboretum.

  • Campus & Community

    Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur Award

    Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur award, which she plans to use to further her research on race in America.

  • Health

    More from spores: How they spread

    Researchers discover how fungi developed an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and as far as possible.

  • Campus & Community

    Social Studies at 50

    Nearly 400 gather to celebrate 50th anniversary of the social studies program at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Trials set for body-chilling anaesthesia

    Medical researchers at Harvard say they are poised to begin human trials on a suspended-animation technique for surgery patients.

  • Campus & Community

    Two faculty receive Science of Generosity grants

    Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Assistant Professor of Psychology Felix Warneken have received grants of $149,000 and $150,000, respectively, from the Science of Generosity, an initiative at the University of Notre Dame.

  • Campus & Community

    Greyser wins Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award

    Stephen A. Greyser, Harvard Business School’s Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, has received the 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association in recognition of his “distinguished career contributions to the scientific understanding of sports business.”

  • Campus & Community

    Karen Putnam named Radcliffe’s associate dean for advancement

    Karen Putnam has been appointed associate dean for advancement at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Putnam’s position became effective on Sept. 15.

  • Campus & Community

    Toffel awarded for environmental research

    Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel has won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division.

  • Campus & Community

    Neuman elected to Human Rights Committee

    Gerald Neuman ’80, the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, has been elected to the Human Rights Committee, the premier treaty body in the U.N. human rights system.

  • Campus & Community

    Center for the Environment welcomes 2010-12 fellows

    The Center for the Environment welcomes an incoming group of environmental fellows for the 2010-12 academic years. These four new fellows will join a group of five scholars who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships.

  • Science & Tech

    Sustainability at Harvard: We are a living lab

    A video tour through five case studies of sustainability at Harvard, including: * Student Peer-to-Peer Programs Educate and Inspire * Innovative Solutions that Serve as Models for Other * Greener, Healthier, More Efficient Buildings * Rethinking Campus Operations * Building a Culture of Sustainability

  • Campus & Community

    Education scholar Gerald Lesser, 84

    Gerald Lesser, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), died on Sept. 23 at the age of 84.

  • Nation & World

    Gordon Brown’s prescription

    Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s prescription for a shaken world economy: Coordinate action, and write a global economic constitution that reflects morality while acknowledging business needs.

  • Nation & World

    Technology in governance

    A two-day Kennedy School conference examined the need to integrate information technology training into the curriculum through a new, long-term initiative.

  • Campus & Community

    Gordon Brown: UK and US must coordinate economic policy

    Gordon Brown warns in speech at Harvard that America and Europe risk a decade of high unemployment and low growth unless new policies are urgently taken to improve global co-operation.

  • Nation & World

    The oozing fog of war

    During a Harvard panel discussion, three authorities on international conflict discussed the complexities on the ground and in international law because of the spreading fog of warfare.

  • Science & Tech

    Pondering energy’s future

    Reducing dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gases are the two major challenges facing U.S. energy systems, a visiting federal energy official told a Harvard audience.

  • Campus & Community

    2,600 miles and one screen apart

    Harvard, Boston, and Cambridge officials join with a corporate partner to launch a program that will link distant schools along high-speed connections.

  • Nation & World

    A backdrop on Islam in America

    A teach-in at Harvard tries to put the Ground Zero mosque controversy in a historical context.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard, Cisco, BBN Technologies connect with Boston and Cambridge schools

    Harvard University announced today (Sept. 22) a new partnership with the cities of Boston and Cambridge designed to bring the world to students — faster and clearer than ever.

  • Campus & Community

    Faust: Let’s break down boundaries

    Harvard President Drew Faust took questions from television journalist Charlie Gibson, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School this year, in a Sanders Theatre forum intended to kick off the school year.

  • Campus & Community

    New endowed coaching position

    A gift from Gregory Lee ’87 and Russell Ball ’88 establishes the Gregory Lee ’87 and Russell Ball ’88 Endowed Coach for Squash. Newly appointed director of squash Mike Way will be the first coach to hold the position.