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Nation & World
Alternative vacation
Harvard students and friends spend two weeks working and helping an impoverished corner of the Dominican Republic.
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Campus & Community
Collecting race, ethnicity data
In compliance with new government regulations, Harvard is required to collect ethnicity information from faculty and staff. In addition, Harvard employees will have an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify their veteran status.
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Arts & Culture
Aftermath of a world at war
“Our World at War” photo exhibit revisits the scenes of recent conflicts, exposing a penumbra of pain, fortitude, and even joy.
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Science & Tech
NIH resumes funding stem cell research – for now
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that it is resuming funding embryonic stem cell research. “We are pleased with the…interim ruling” yesterday by a three-judge panel of the…
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Campus & Community
New January Innovation Fund Established
Harvard President Drew Faust today (Sept. 10) announced the creation of the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, a special venture fund to support the development and implementation of creative academic or co-curricular experiences for students during the January break period.
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Campus & Community
Harvard endowment posts strong positive return
Harvard’s endowment earned an investment return of 11 percent for the year and was valued at $27.6 billion on June 30.
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Campus & Community
Support for student life
Harvard’s undergraduates will compete and perform across the country and enjoy the rituals of residential life on campus again this year, thanks to renewed support from Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds’ Student Life Fund.
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Nation & World
Documenting a colonial past
A Harvard doctoral student and two recent graduates worked in Kenya this summer with Harvard history professor Caroline Elkins to lay the foundation for a collaboration with Kenyan scholars to record the African nation’s experience gaining independence from Britain.
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Campus & Community
They’re good without God
The first humanist student and community center on a U.S. campus opens in Harvard Square.
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Campus & Community
In good taste
Harvard launches “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.” The class, open only to undergraduates, is part of the new Gen Ed curriculum, which introduces students to subject matter and skills from across the University.
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Arts & Culture
Off the beaten path
A new exhibition, “Rev. Badger’s Misfits: Deviations and Diversions,” at the Harvard Map Collection, asks viewers to consider some of these “cartographic curiosities.”
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Nation & World
In Pakistan, controlling water is key
Pakistan’s long-term water security requires institutional renewal and new infrastructure, including new dams, on the Indus River.
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Campus & Community
Medical Liability Costs Make Up 2.4% of U.S. Health Spending
Medical malpractice and guarding against suits cost the U.S. about $55.6 billion annually, or 2.4 percent of the total health-care bill, according to Harvard University’s Atul Gawande and co-authors.
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Campus & Community
Extra help
Harvard is making sure that approximately 3,000 bags of homework support materials for grades K-5 will be distributed to family members attending Boston Public Schools’ Back-to-School Night sessions beginning in mid-September.
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Arts & Culture
Melding Spanish and spirituality
A new language course offers students at Harvard Divinity School a chance to develop a nuanced cultural approach to their ministry work.
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Arts & Culture
Sit down, stay a while
A new season of performances involving the Common Spaces Chairs Project kicked off with the chairs as the star.
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Campus & Community
Stepping into action
Harvard programs help incoming freshmen to get into the flow
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Science & Tech
President Faust issues statement supporting federal funding of stem cell research
A temporary restraining order last month that blocked federal funding for certain kinds of stem cell research was viewed by many as a blow to cutting-edge science that already is…
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Science & Tech
Importance of stem cell research
A temporary restraining order that blocked federal funding for certain kinds of stem cell research was viewed by many as a blow to cutting-edge science. In response, President Drew Faust said, “We hope that the temporary injunction will soon be lifted and that Congress will take the steps necessary to ensure that stem cell scientists…
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Campus & Community
NARSAD awards professors for breakthrough schizophrenia research
Associate Professor of Psychiatry Marc J. Kaufman and Associate Professor of Psychology Dara Manoach, both of Harvard Medical School, are among 42 innovative researchers awarded NARSAD 2010 Independent Investigator grants for schizophrenia research.
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Campus & Community
Lunt, scholar of Slavic languages and literatures, dies at 91
Horace Gray Lunt, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, passed away on Aug. 11, in Baltimore, Md., scarcely a month short of his 92nd birthday.
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Science & Tech
Cracking flight’s mysteries
Harvard engineers have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to guide tiny aerial robots.
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Nation & World
A new program to shake up education
The first class of students in Harvard’s newest doctoral program gets ready to help transform public schools in America.
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Nation & World
The problematic growth of AP testing
New book suggests that Advanced Placement teaching has expanded so much that it now serves many students who can’t handle the rigors of its coursework.
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Campus & Community
Back to the field
Senior forward Katherine Sheeleigh hopes to lead the Harvard women’s soccer team to another Ivy title and the NCAA playoffs.
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Campus & Community
Easy blend of old and new
A group from the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement is taught Scratch, a basic programming tool, by teaching fellows and course assistants from CS50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” a popular Harvard course taught by David Malan.
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Arts & Culture
Vendler on Dickinson
Renowned critic Helen Vendler takes on Amherst’s own Emily Dickinson in her new book, “Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries.”
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Nation & World
New meaning in the familiar
Harvard Divinity School professor Peter Machinist encouraged students to alter their perspectives on education and life through defamiliarization.
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Nation & World
Far beyond Harvard’s gates
Harvard students recount their summer internships and work experiences in many fields, countries.
