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  • Campus & Community

    Freshmen to receive H1N1 vaccine

    Harvard University Health Services (UHS) has received a new shipment of H1N1 vaccine and will begin distributing it to College freshmen at a clinic in Annenberg Hall on Wednesday (Dec. 9). UHS also will offer the vaccine to UHS patients between the ages of 18 of 24 who have high-risk health conditions.

  • Campus & Community

    In the footsteps of Du Bois

    Eight receive W.E.B. Du Bois Medals for aiding African-American culture, including Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Hugh M. “Brother Blue” Hill, Vernon Jordan, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose, Shirley M. Tilghman, Bob Herbert, and Frank H. Pearl.

  • Arts & Culture

    Revelations on Revelation

    Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels visits Radcliffe, presenting a “mad dash” of fresh thinking on the New Testament’s Book of Revelation.

  • Campus & Community

    Weiss to guide Library Implementation Work Group

    Deborah Jackson Weiss has been named senior project director for the Library Implementation Work Group. In that role, she will guide the panel putting in place the recommendations made last month by the Library Task Force.

  • Nation & World

    Ties that bind

    To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge, Gordon Johnson, the institution’s deputy vice chancellor, gave a talk about the import of universities in society.

  • Campus & Community

    Risks: Leaving ‘Stroke Belt’ but Not the Dangers

    Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health who analyzed stroke deaths in the United States found that people who were born in the Southeast and continued to live there as adults were 34 percent more likely than other Americans to die of a stroke

  • Campus & Community

    Happiness is…

    Which would make you happier: winning the lottery, or losing the ability to walk? It may seem like a no-brainer, but Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard University, says the answer may surprise you.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard promotes area businesses this holiday season

    With sizzling hamburger sliders coming off the grill, steaming hot chocolate going into eager hands, and harmonious a cappella voices filling the background, organizers on Thursday (Dec. 3) launched a “Think Harvard Square” campaign to promote local businesses this holiday shopping season.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard vs. Maryland – Men’s Soccer

    A silent stadium opens and closes the 2009 season-ender for Harvard Men’s Soccer team.

  • Nation & World

    Assessing Obama’s Afghan plan

    A Kennedy School panel discusses and debates President Obama’s plan to add 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to try to stabilize that nation and allow American troops to begin withdrawing in 2011.

  • Nation & World

    Young people polled

    In a poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, nearly half of young Americans said that the economy is the national issue that concerns them most, more than double the next-highest issue, health care.

  • Campus & Community

    In poll, majority of young adults disapproves of US troop buildup in Afghanistan

    Two-thirds of young adults oppose sending more US troops to Afghanistan, according to a national poll released yesterday by the Harvard University Institute of Politics that suggests fissures in a key demographic that helped President Obama capture the White House.

  • Science & Tech

    Nature’s fine designs

    Nature and its bottom-up processes for creating robust and responsive materials are inspiring new generations of synthetic materials and creative design.

  • Arts & Culture

    Learning Lessons: Medicine, Economics, and Public Policy

    With more than 50 years of experience in the economics and policy worlds, Fein dishes the lessons he’s learned on government, decision making, and more, attempting to breathe new life into our nation’s welfare.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

    Sociologist Lawrence-Lightfoot’s inspiring book says that ages 50-75 are prime time for adventure. Forty interviews with people living in their “third chapter” show how fulfilling life can be then.

  • Arts & Culture

    Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

    Tatar plumbs the lore and enchantment of children’s stories, revealing their power to ensnare imaginations, and highlights the magic of reading and what children take from it.

  • Campus & Community

    Journey to D.C.

    Harvard Kennedy School graduate Sam Sanders ’09 writes about his experience as a public policy student and the road that led him to National Public Radio.

  • Campus & Community

    The Game

    The oldest rivalry in college football dates to 1875, when Harvard and Yale played a bruising game that resembled rugby more than modern football. Back then, fans journeyed by train, horseback, and foot from around New England to view the rough-and-tumble spectacle.

  • Campus & Community

    CfA shows schoolchildren the stars

    The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is giving middle school children in three Massachusetts towns a taste of astronomy, using robotic telescopes they control themselves to fuel their interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

  • Arts & Culture

    Women on the move

    A new Schlesinger Library exhibit, “To Know the Whole World,” introduces an interactive Web site on women’s travel writing.

  • Arts & Culture

    In defense of books

    Harvard Library director pens book that in itself is an ode to books.

  • Science & Tech

    Wizard at circuits, physics

    Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.

  • Nation & World

    Citizen spies, spied-on citizens

    An exhibit of Czech secret-police photos from the Communist era, at Harvard through Dec. 21, shows Big Brother as unintentional artist.

  • Health

    Turning genetic trash to treasure

    John Rinn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Broad Institute, overcame a rocky start in life through a passion for biology and discovered a new category of RNAs.

  • Campus & Community

    Anthropologist Hymes dies at 82

    Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering a wealth of short courses, seminars, and events designed to provide more work or more play, depending on your preference, from Jan. 4 to 24.

  • Campus & Community

    Lohre named
 NCC president-elect

    Kathryn M. Lohre has been elected president-elect of the National Council of Churches (NCC) by the NCC Governing Board.

  • Campus & Community

    Rockefeller Fellows chosen for 2010-11

    Concluding its annual meeting and interviews at Harvard on Nov. 20-21, the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors for 2010-11.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

    Two Harvard Business School professors, Nancy F. Koehn and Rajiv Lal, have weighed in on the Harvard Business School Web site with their best estimates of how the holiday shopping season will play out. One sees a flat or slightly improved sales period, while the other is guardedly optimistic.

  • Nation & World

    Writers at Risk

    A Harvard instructor, concerned about literary artists threatened overseas, proposes Writers at Risk, an academic harbor.