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  • Campus & Community

    Crossing that bridge

    On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

  • Health

    Health reform alone may not increase access to physicians or reduce healthcare inequality gaps

    In a new study, Harvard researchers looked at the effects of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform and found that the legislation has led to improvements in insurance coverage as well as a decline in financial barriers to care but has not increased people’s access to a personal physician or improve their self-rated health. Neither has…

  • Arts & Culture

    A master of motion

    Artistic director offers students insights and technical tips on the graceful yet grueling craft of ballet during master class.

  • Nation & World

    Alternative vacation

    Harvard students and friends spend two weeks working and helping an impoverished corner of the Dominican Republic.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ” which will allow promising stem cell research to continue while we present further arguments…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    They’re good without God

    The first humanist student and community center on a U.S. campus opens in Harvard Square.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    Stepping into action

    Harvard programs help incoming freshmen to get into the flow

  • 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 yielding clues to cures for a number of fatal illnesses and chronic diseases. Harvard has been in the vanguard of such research, and the University,…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Science & Tech

    Cracking flight’s mysteries

    Harvard engineers have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to guide tiny aerial robots.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”