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  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Graduate School of Design

    A year ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) held a three-day international conference on the future of cities. “Ecological Urbanism” drew on disciplines as seemingly diverse as design, cultural history, medicine, economics, and literature.

  • Campus & Community

    Paul C. Zamecnik

    Paul Charles Zamecnik, the Collis P. Huntington Professor of Oncologic Medicine Emeritus, died in Boston on Oct. 27, 2009, at the age of 96. During a research career that spanned more than 70 years, he made a series of scientific contributions that represented multiple fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.

  • Campus & Community

    Sherry Turkle to give centennial year Lowell Lecture May 14

    Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and Self, will give this centennial year’s Lowell Lecture, titled “The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,” on May 14 (8 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall), hosted by the Harvard University Extension School.

  • Campus & Community

    Five awarded College Professorships

    Dean Michael D. Smith announced May 11 that five professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Harvard College Professorships in recognition of their outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Art of the Sonnet

    Stephen Burt, an English professor and renowned poet and critic, and co-writer David Mikics have collected 100 sonnets — the longest-lived poetic form — and offer their insights on each 14-line masterpiece.

  • Arts & Culture

    Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do About It

    Richard Tedlow, the M.B.A. Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration, says denial is everywhere — even in business. He examines why leaders let denial threaten companies, and provides case studies of organizations that have met challenges head-on.

  • Science & Tech

    ‘The art of seeing things invisible’

    “This is a wonderful story of collaboration and imagination,” said Harvard President Drew Faust, moments before cutting a ribbon yesterday afternoon to open the new Harvard Center for Biological Imaging (CBI). The facility,…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Gazette uses QR codes as gateway to mobile web portals

    The Harvard Gazette has redesigned its mobile version of the Gazette Online, providing QR codes in the most recent print issues of the paper.

  • Campus & Community

    Message delivered

    The Civil Rights Movement spurred Harvard President Drew Faust to youthful activism and influenced her choice to become a historian of the American South, Faust told the Harvard Business School’s first-year class, urging students to keep their desire to make a difference at the forefront of their minds.

  • Campus & Community

    Yielding strong results

    More than three-quarters of the 2,110 students admitted to Harvard’s Class of 2014 say they will attend the College.

  • Nation & World

    Film explores military tribunal

    A short film based on military tribunals held at Guantanamo Bay examines the legality and morality of the U.S. justice system.

  • Science & Tech

    Neanderthal genome tells a human story

    A preliminary draft of the genome of the Neanderthal, our closest evolutionary relative, reveals in exquisite detail how this long-extinct member of the Homo genus relates to modern humans.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held May 5

    At its 13th and final meeting of the year on May 5, the Faculty Council approved next year’s Handbook for Students and Courses of Instruction for the College and the courses for the University Extension School. The council also heard a proposal regarding the administration of final examinations.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Black Men’s Forum presents annual awards

    The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF), which pays tribute to the contributions that black women have made to Harvard and to society at large, recognized former Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, among others, at its Celebration of Black Women event on April 29.

  • Campus & Community

    Bench pressing for a cure

    On May 3, more than 250 Harvard athletes from 18 varsity teams took the Palmer-Dixon Gymnasium by storm for the second annual Bench Press for Breast Cancer Challenge, pumping iron and raising greenbacks for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

  • Science & Tech

    Rising seas, raising hopes

    Harvard design students, capping a two-year project, encourage the Dutch to look beyond engineering to cope with rising sea levels.

  • Arts & Culture

    The last notes

    In place since 1967, Appleton Chapel’s Opus 46 organ will be dismantled to make way for a new instrument.

  • Campus & Community

    Adults’ suicide risk similar for all antidepressants

    People have about the same risk of having suicidal thoughts or attempting suicide when starting out on antidepressants no matter what type of pill they’re prescribed, new research shows.

  • Science & Tech

    From the cosmos to the cell

    A conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study examined the prevalence of patterns in the natural world, from enormous ones that order the cosmos to cellular and molecular patterns in living things.

  • Campus & Community

    Nitin Nohria named next dean of Harvard Business School

    Nitin Nohria, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the School’s 10th dean, President Drew Faust announced today (May 4).

  • Nation & World

    Unseen victims of war

    Mental health ailments are widespread among Iraqi children and teenagers, a problem compounded by a lack of mental health treatment facilities and inattention to the problem, an Iraqi psychiatrist says.

  • Arts & Culture

    Her own creation

    Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hip-hop’s global reach

    A two-day conference explores the global reach of hip-hop and examines how teachers can use it in the classroom to convey important lessons about art, culture, language, and society.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard and Banco Santander announce letter of intent

    Harvard University and Banco Santander announced a letter of intent today that will enable Harvard to support master’s candidates and visiting fellows from China through participation in Banco Santander’s Marco Polo Program.

  • Science & Tech

    Trees tell of shifting world

    Trees from the Harvard Forest to the Amazon rainforest are experiencing changing climactic conditions, with rising temperatures potentially making tropical trees a significant source of carbon dioxide.

  • Nation & World

    Helping Haiti

    The world mobilized to help Haiti after that country suffered the deadliest earthquake in this hemisphere in over a century on Jan. 12, 2010. Faculty, staff, and other members of the Harvard community, including affiliates of Partners In Health and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, played a pivotal role in the worldwide effort to provide aid.

  • Campus & Community

    More than just meat

    Vegan Carol J. Adams speaks about meat eating as more than violence against animals, saying that it’s also often an expression of violence against women.

  • Arts & Culture

    The nature of reality

    Allan Sekula, artist and essayist, discusses the nature of reality and how it’s shown in his work.

  • Campus & Community

    Hogarty named VP for Campus Services

    Lisa Hogarty, a seasoned administrator with experience in academia and the health care industry, has been named vice president for Campus Services at Harvard University.