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  • Nation & World

    Drew Faust visits Asia

    Harvard President Drew Faust has embraced Harvard’s international image in both practical and symbolic ways. Faust, whose appointment was celebrated around the world as an example of what women now can achieve, has traveled to China, Botswana, South Africa, Western Europe, and most recently took a weeklong trip to Japan and China.

  • Campus & Community

    Touché: Harvard fencing

    Harvard University recently played host to the 2010 NCAA Fencing Championships, held March 25-28 at the Gordon Indoor Track. Harvard’s Caroline Vloka ’12 won the national title in women’s sabre, while her teammate Mills finished second in women’s épée. Vloka became Harvard’s first female NCAA champion since Emily Cross ’08-09 won the women’s foil title…

  • Campus & Community

    Earth Day at 40

    Harvard celebrates 40th anniversary of Earth Day with dinners, fairs, films, and discussions.

  • Health

    Doubling health spending in low-income countries improving health budget less than expected

    Low-income countries have doubled their domestic spending on health overall, reports a major new study over 12 years ending in 2006, but international health aid may not be adding as…

  • Nation & World

    Sumner M. Redstone donates $1M

    Harvard University today (April 23) announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Redstone, a graduate of both Schools, will establish scholarships for 20 Redstone Scholars to attend Harvard College for the 2010–11 academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Deadline approaches for John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is accepting papers for a thesis prize for a graduating Harvard College senior.

  • Campus & Community

    Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies seeks papers for 2010

    The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies seeks submissions for its 2010 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate students with the best essays on Japan-related topics.

  • Campus & Community

    Sumner Redstone donates $1 million to Harvard University

    Harvard University today announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Mr. Redstone, a graduate of both schools, will establish scholarships for 20 Redstone Scholars to attend Harvard College for the 2010–2011 academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Truths and myths on marijuana

    Seminar on marijuana discusses legal ramifications, effects of using the drug.

  • Arts & Culture

    A church of words

    Poet Jericho Brown writes often about death, looking it in the eye, but don’t make the mistake of thinking him an unhappy man.

  • Arts & Culture

    From class to Cannes

    “Shelley,” a movie by Andrew Wesman ’10, is one of 13 selected from among 1,600 film school offerings that will screen at the famed Cannes Film Festival.

  • Campus & Community

    Diabetes drug tied to reduced breast cancer risk

    Women who have used the diabetes drug metformin for more than five years may have a lower risk of breast cancer than diabetic women on other treatments, a new study finds…

  • Campus & Community

    Gates on giving, getting, sharing

    In a visit to Harvard, Microsoft’s Gates says that top minds need to focus on critical social problems — to find solutions.

  • Health

    Height and death

    Mothers shorter than 4 feet, 9 inches in low- to middle-income countries had about a 40 percent higher risk of their children dying within the first five years of life than mothers who…

  • Campus & Community

    In poor countries, taller moms’ kids are healthier

    In developing countries, taller moms tend to give birth to healthier kids who are less likely to die in infancy, be underweight or have stunted growth, a new study finds…

  • Nation & World

    Democracy as defense

    Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of Georgia, says his nation’s embrace of democratic institutions makes it a strong counterbalance to Russia in the Black Sea region.

  • Arts & Culture

    Of men, women, and space

    A Radcliffe conference tackles the tangle of how men and women handle matters of personal and public space.

  • Health

    Get the salt out

    Responding to the health threat posed by Americans’ over-consumption of sodium, experts in the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and The Culinary Institute of America…

  • Nation & World

    Film as social change

    Two-day panel at the Center for Public Leadership examines the shifting role of film as a vehicle for social change, with new technologies creating fresh insights.

  • Nation & World

    The Living Magazine

    Exiled, censored, and under fire from hostile regimes, international writers make a plea at Harvard for creative freedom.

  • Health

    In praise of the Y chromosome

    David Page, director of the Whitehead Institute and professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says research indicates the much-maligned Y chromosome plays a more critical role in genetics than previously believed.

  • Science & Tech

    Strength in naughty or nice

    Research suggests that when people are convinced they’re engaging in a moral act, either for good or ill, they become stronger in performing physical tasks.

  • Campus & Community

    Lessons from the Earth

    The new Harvard Community Garden, dedicated Sunday, is expected to inspire lessons in sustainability, community, and academic collaboration.

  • Campus & Community

    Seventeen faculty honored

    Seventeen Harvard University faculty members are among the 229 leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Health

    The nicotine-candy connection

    A new nicotine product, apparently designed to tide smokers over in places where they can’t light up, resembles some candy. It leads to fear among researchers that children will eat the pills and suffer poisoning.

  • Health

    Researchers warn new, dissolvable nicotine products could lead to accidental poisoning in children and youths

    A tobacco company’s new, dissolvable nicotine pellet–which is being sold as a tobacco product, but which in some cases resembles popular candies–could lead to accidental nicotine poisoning in children, according…

  • Nation & World

    Being prepared, not scared

    Janet Napolitano, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, says Americans should “be prepared, not scared” in dealing with the ongoing threats of terror attacks.

  • Science & Tech

    The Postdocs

    Some physicists spend their lives obsessed with questions about the possibility of parallel universes, or of travel at the speed of light. Amy Rowat is obsessed with the mechanical properties of the tiny…

  • Science & Tech

    Circling Saturn:

    Carolyn Porco is on a mission. As she explained to an audience of several hundred gathered at the Radcliffe Gymnasium earlier this month, in a lecture titled “At Saturn: Tripping the Light Fantastic,”…

  • Nation & World

    More ways of defining diversity

    A study by a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education suggests that university staffs and students value having a diverse campus, but doubt that strict racial preferences are the right way to develop it.