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  • Campus & Community

    Helping heal survivors

    For nearly 30 years, Dr. Richard F. Mollica has been helping people cope with the worst catastrophes imaginable. The longtime director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital has worked with survivors of the brutal Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, 9/11 in New York, and, most recently, the earthquake in Haiti.

  • Health

    Weighing the risk factors

    Risk factors for childhood obesity may be evident before birth and are more likely to occur in African-American and Hispanic children than in Caucasian children. Researchers studied 1,826 mother-child pairs from pregnancy through the child’s first five years of life.

  • Health

    Efforts to prevent childhood obesity must begin early

    Normal 0 0 1 751 4281 35 8 5257 11.1282 0 0 0 Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought — perhaps even before birth…

  • Campus & Community

    Warning: Your reality is out of date

    When people think of knowledge, they generally think of two sorts of facts: facts that don’t change, like the height of Mount Everest or the capital of the United States, and facts that fluctuate constantly, like the temperature or the stock market close.

  • Campus & Community

    Cambridge resident provides shelter for Haiti’s homeless

    Last week, Cambridge resident Dr. S. Allen Counter, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Foundation, delivered over 150 tents to homeless families in earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince area.

  • Campus & Community

    Gift launches fellowship fund

    The Harvard Kennedy School of Government has received a $5 million gift from Glenn Dubin, co-founder and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management. This gift will be used to launch a graduate fellowship fund to support and develop new programs for emerging leaders from the United States and around the world.

  • Science & Tech

    New source of natural gas

    Chesapeake Energy’s chief executive officer, Aubrey McClendon, struck a positive note on the future prominence of natural gas as an energy source, though some critics decried new gas extraction techniques.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 24

    At its ninth meeting of the year on Feb. 24, the Faculty Council discussed course planning and spoke with President Drew Faust.

  • Arts & Culture

    Pass the popcorn

    Movie night at the Schlesinger Library uses lesser-known films to cast a cinematic light on women’s issues.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art as cultural backdrop

    A series of lectures uses art objects to open windows into understanding eras’ cultures, histories, and social values.

  • Arts & Culture

    Lowell House Opera

    The longest continually performing opera company in New England performs “Tosca.”

  • Campus & Community

    Pennies from heaven

    As effort continues to raise funds to aid members of the Harvard community who have ties to Haiti, one group does its part by filling a jar with cash.

  • Nation & World

    Candid chat with Choctaw chief

    Leader of the Choctaw Nation visits Harvard classroom to discuss how he helped the Indian tribe to reorganize and solve many of its own problems.

  • Nation & World

    Reclaiming Port-au-Prince

    Weeks after the earthquake, as populations of Haiti’s tent camps grow, so too does the threat of disease.

  • Science & Tech

    Time to change the menu

    Climate change, population growth present fresh challenges to a global food supply system already showing cracks.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard study of Charlotte schools finds teacher training, not degrees, help kids learn

    Harvard University researchers who have been studying a North Carolina school system to learn what makes teachers effective are reporting their findings.

  • Arts & Culture

    Archives and electrons

    In a discussion titled “Writing History Now,” sponsored by the Harvard University Extension School, a panel of historians examines the shifting landscape of recording history, as the Internet changes the ways that data is saved and valued.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard to participate in career mentoring program for military vets

    Harvard University today (Feb. 23) announced it will participate in the American Corporate Partners (ACP) mentoring program to help returning veterans transition from the armed services back to the workplace through career counseling and social networking.

  • Campus & Community

    Finance expert Gordon Donaldson dies at 87

    Gordon Donaldson, an influential Harvard Business School (HBS) professor, mentor, researcher, and administrator from 1955 to 1993, died on Feb. 12 in Parkland, Fla., at the age of 87.

  • Campus & Community

    Winning and losing

    Harvard men’s basketball falls to first-place Cornell, but triumphs against Columbia.

  • Campus & Community

    Mind power

    As one of the featured speakers, offering a weekend-long seminar, was a senior professor at Harvard University, Ellen Langer. Langer is a famous psychologist poised to get much more famous, but not in the ways most researchers do.

  • Nation & World

    Slavery in 2010

    Harvard Kennedy School program looks at ways to prosecute and prevent modern-day slavery, and to protect the millions now in bondage.

  • Science & Tech

    Another piece of cancer puzzle falls into place

    An international team of researchers has created a genome-scale map of 26 cancers, revealing more than 100 genomic sites where DNA from tumors is either missing or abnormally duplicated compared to normal tissues.…

  • Health

    Hey squash, time for your close-up

    Bruce Smith, of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, discusses the rise of agriculture in a talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

  • Arts & Culture

    Mouthpiece

    Erin Gee performs an original composition, “Mouthpiece.”

  • Campus & Community

    Business Schools Tap Veterans

    Five years ago, Augusto Giacoman was commanding about 30 soldiers and leading raids in Iraq. Now he spends his days in classrooms alongside former bankers, engineers and other civilians earning a master’s in business administration.

  • Arts & Culture

    Songs without words

    Independent composer Erin Gee replaces recognizable text in her vocal works with sounds based on the International Phonetic Alphabet.

  • Nation & World

    Knitting Europe together

    Top Obama official discusses the need to integrate the nations of southeastern Europe into the rest of the continent.

  • Arts & Culture

    Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams

    With vivid writing on her stories and colorful past, Williams offers an autobiography to make lazy folks blush. Professor emeritus at the Kennedy School, this lifelong lady of politics has done it all, and it’s all here.