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Campus & Community
Invitation from President Faust
President Drew Faust invites the Harvard community to join her and Charlie Gibson, former host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” and now a visitor at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, for a year-opening conversation on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Stepping into action
Harvard’s pre-orientation programs point incoming freshmen to the city, the country, and the campus in an effort to give students a head start on adjusting to college life by building community through the outdoors, the arts, and more.
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Campus & Community
Class of 2014 Convocation
Harvard’s leaders welcomed the Class of 2014 Tuesday (Aug. 31), in a convocation ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance. They urged the new students to use their College years as a time to experiment, learn, and discover.
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Campus & Community
A message of inclusion
Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first Morning Prayers of the new school year with a message of inclusion for both the University and its students.
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Arts & Culture
‘Africans in Black & White’
The Du Bois Institute opens a new exhibit at the Rudenstine Gallery in conjunction with the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium and a 10-book series.
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Campus & Community
Summer the Harvard way
Harvard goes into overdrive in the summer months with a new crop of students ready to learn, and a variety of outreach programs developed for the local community.
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Health
I’ll get mine, Jack
A new paper suggests that the mutually beneficial relationships that species create are maintained mostly because of simple self-interest.
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Campus & Community
Access Harvard on mobile device
As of Sept. 1, members of the Harvard community will have everything they need to know about the University in the palms of their hands. Harvard has launched a strategic mobile initiative to package content from across the University for display on handheld devices.
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Arts & Culture
War’s artistic alchemy
Museum presentation discusses three German artists shaped in the cauldron of world war, and a younger fourth molded by the gender wars.
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Science & Tech
The speedup of climate change
Scientist discusses growing effects of global climate change with members of Harvard’s Class of 2014.
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Campus & Community
Making the big move
Families arrive at Harvard to move their students into dorms for the start of the fall semester.
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Science & Tech
Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty
Harvard researchers have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food. These circuits, also found in other animals, put together two critical pieces of information: How good or bad are the things that might happen? What are the…
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Campus & Community
A family welcome
College Dean Evelynn Hammonds welcomes families of the Class of 2014 to campus.
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Campus & Community
Telescope Detects Possible Earth-Size Planet
Harvard researchers working with NASA’s Kepler satellite reported Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away…
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Arts & Culture
Hot, hot, hot
The American Repertory Theater presents a rollicking fall lineup, with surprises at every turn.
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Nation & World
A higher profile for African studies
Harvard’s Committee on African Studies has received designation as a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education, raising the profile of African studies at Harvard and gaining federal funding for programs and student efforts.
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Campus & Community
Under 35, and at the top
Three 30-something Harvard researchers win TR35 technology honors for their innovative, world-shaping work.
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Health
The ties that bind
Harvard scientists say natural selection alone can explain “eusociality,” the cooperative social structure in many of Earth’s dominant species.
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Health
What’s right for me?
In a new study, Harvard scientists find that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used on more mundane choices such as money or food.
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Campus & Community
The march is on
The Earthwatch Institute will bring its scientists to the Allston-Brighton community on Aug. 30 for a discussion titled “Saving the Penguins of Robben Island, South Africa.”
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Arts & Culture
A glimpse of lost language
Peabody Museum researcher finds 400-year-old document that contains numerical translations of a previously unknown Peruvian language.
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Campus & Community
Study Links Chronic Fatigue to Virus Class
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and Harvard Medical School link chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus
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Campus & Community
Copyright scholar Kaplan dies
Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died on Aug. 18.
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Arts & Culture
A life of transition
A new exhibition at Harvard’s Houghton Library explores the life of philosopher William James.
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Health
Hard on the ears
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have determined that hearing loss in adolescents has increased over the past 15 years.
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Science & Tech
Social ill
A new study finds link between lack of close ties and heart disease risk, adding to evidence that a person’s social environment can play a big role in health.
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Campus & Community
HBS professor nabs lifetime achievement award from NVCA
Felda Hardymon, M.B.A. ’79, the M.B.A. Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association.