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  • Science & Tech

    Physician training 2.0

    Doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital team up with the New England Journal of Medicine to create online medical cases that can teach better than lectures.

  • Campus & Community

    The piano man

    Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.

  • Nation & World

    Rebel with a cause

    Before Greg Epstein became chaplain at Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy, he was a rock star. Now he’s written a book on Humanism, a religious philosophy that rejects supernaturalism while encouraging virtuous actions and decisions.

  • Nation & World

    Lessons from the East

    On an internship from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Peter Bernard ’11 traveled to Japan where he worked at a bookstore and learned that “the culture of books and print is alive and well.”

  • Campus & Community

    Labor intensive

    Newly tenured, the first full-time Americanist in the history of the Department of History of Art and Architecture enjoys how her studies can touch on literature, the sciences — even bird-watching.

  • Campus & Community

    Many hands

    More than 60 Harvard volunteers descended on the 80-year-old Cambridge Community Center Inc. (CCC) Saturday (Oct. 24) for a much-needed, daylong facelift.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Green ’13 is a new initiative from the class of 2013 that aims to change the culture of personal behavior, starting with being more sustainable.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Forest announces Bullard Fellows in Forest Research

    Harvard Forest recently announced the 2009-10 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. The fellowship program was established in 1962 to support the advanced research of individuals who show promise in making important contributions to forestry.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Cherry A. Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, hosted her first “all-hands” community meeting on Oct. 16 to outline her ambitious 10-year plan for the School.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School

    When programmers at the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston were asked to create a grants database for researchers, they knew where to start. They simply asked the hospital’s affiliated Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors about their Facebook-surfing habits.

  • Campus & Community

    Donald Harnish Fleming

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Donald Harnish Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Donald Fleming was a scholar of intellectual history and the history of science and medicine.

  • Campus & Community

    Harris Wang wins 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition

    Harris Wang, doctoral student in biophysics at Harvard Medical School, wins grand prize in Collegiate Inventors Competition.

  • Campus & Community

    Administrative Fellowship Program names nine fellows

    Continuing the legacy of a flagship leadership development fellowship for high-potential academic administrators of color, nine new fellows have been selected for the 2009-10 class of the Administrative Fellowship Program.

  • Campus & Community

    Paul Goldhaber

    Dean emeritus Paul Goldhaber, dean at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) for 22 years, died July 14, 2008, at the age of 84. With a passion for research and an insatiable curiosity, he worked tirelessly with the hope that his lab work would encourage others to do the same.

  • Campus & Community

    Mark E. Richard named professor of philosophy

    Mark E. Richard, who specializes in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and metaphysics and epistemology, has been named professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2010.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘The Lab’ opener set for Nov. 8

    Members of the Harvard community are invited to celebrate the opening (Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m.) of The Laboratory at Harvard, a new platform for student idea experimentation in the arts and sciences.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute

    Don’t be puzzled. Be moved and amazed. Those 10 conical piles of rock, sand, and aggregate in one corner of Radcliffe Yard are actually “Stock-Pile,” a work of landscape art.

  • Campus & Community

    Gardner receives honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Bard University

    Robert Gardner, an associate in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard, was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Bard University on Oct. 25.

  • Campus & Community

    How-to guide for flu coverage

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard launched a comprehensive online guide to covering pandemic flu.

  • Campus & Community

    BIDMC geneticist Rinn named to Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center geneticist John Rinn, whose research has helped uncover a new class of RNA, has been named to this year’s “Brilliant 10” list of top young scientists by Popular Science magazine.

  • Campus & Community

    Building an arts bridge

    Arts Bridge is an initiative developed by recent alumni in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Now current students in the program are teaching kids from Allston and Brighton how to make their own films.

  • Campus & Community

    Alexander Hamilton Leighton

    Alexander Hamilton Leighton, whose respectful, attentive, and scholarly approach to other species colored his distinguished career in cross-cultural psychiatry at the Harvard School of Public Health, died on Aug. 11, 2007 at the age of 99.

  • Arts & Culture

    Big voice, big heart

    The Memorial Church welcomed opera virtuoso Dominique Labelle last week, who was described as genuine and gracious during her master class, proving that divas can be divas without diva behavior.

  • Campus & Community

    Green report card

    For the fourth-straight year, Harvard is at the top of the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, a report that grades the green credentials of 300 colleges and universities.

  • Campus & Community

    Hunn Award honors seven for Schools Committee work

    This year the Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools & Scholarships Award recognizes seven for their work with Harvard’s Schools Committee.

  • Campus & Community

    Gates wins Madison Freedom Award

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was presented the 2009 Madison Freedom Award at The Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16.

  • Science & Tech

    Icebreaker

    Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard’s Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers upstairs.

  • Campus & Community

    New Clues to How Fish Oils Help Arthritis Patients

    Researchers think they now understand the way that fish oils benefit people with rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions linked to inflammation. The body converts an ingredient in fish oils called DHA into a chemical called Resolvin D2, which reduces the inflammation that can lead to various diseases, the scientists from Queen Mary, University of London…

  • Campus & Community

    Allston-Brighton has its day

    Harvard has hosted its Allston and Brighton neighbors to an early reception and a football game for the past 20 years. It is a bookend to Cambridge Football Day, which was held earlier this month.

  • Campus & Community

    Arnold Arboretum invites artists to submit shirt designs for Lilac Sunday

    The Arnold Arboretum is holding a T-shirt design contest for Lilac Sunday 2010.