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A two-year pilot program testing the use of environmentally friendly cleaning supplies and techniques is ready for University-wide distribution, the programs organizers say, in a move that could reduce waste and improve indoor air quality.

Professor of Cell Biology and Pediatrics Mark T. Keating has been selected to receive the 15th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research for his discovery of genes involved in cardiac arrhythmias. Mutations in these genes can lead to abnormal heart rhythms, a major cause of death and disability.…

Some of the nations top female scientists will gather at the University today (April 7) for the third National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science. The sessions, organized by the student group Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR), will run through April 10. The symposium will address opportunities available to female scientists, ways…

In the 1930s and 40s, many European scholars fleeing Nazi persecution found refuge at American universities where they were able to continue their research and writing as well as contribute their knowledge and experience to the academic communities in which they found a home.

Mehrangiz Kar sits in her spacious office beside a window that looks out on the soggy lawn and still bare trees of the Bunting Quadrangle. Her desk and an adjacent table are strewn with books and papers, most of them covered with the sinuous shapes of Persian lettering.

The Silk Road Project Inc., the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have announced the creation of new collaborations designed to deepen and strengthen the interdisciplinary educational offerings of the three institutions.

If anybody can discuss the rise of neoconservativism, Hannah Arendt on Walter Benjamin, Jesse Jackson on Terri Schiavo, and the future of the theater in 90 minutes, its Tony Kushner. As part of the Office for the Arts Learning From Performers program, the playwright appeared last Thursday at the Loeb Drama Center, where the American…

Royal Society elects Porter fellow Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William E. Lawrence University Professor at the Harvard Business School, has been elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society…

Christine Korsgaard believes in the power of intellectual discussion. Now that she has the means to do so, she plans to make good on that belief by seeing to it that a great deal of stimulating, productive conversation takes place at Harvard over the next few years.

The Harvard Corporation on Monday (April 4) announced its decision to have Harvard Management Company divest its holdings of stock in PetroChina Company Limited.

April 25, 1674 – The Harvard Corporation orders that “freshmen of the Colledg shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe…

At its 12th meeting of the year on April 6, the Faculty Council received an update on export controls from Vice President and General Counsel Robert Iuliano.

Nine Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients of this years Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.

The Office of Work/Life Resources and the Task Forces on Women Faculty and Women in Science and Engineering have increased outreach to the Harvard community this week, including the start of an assessment of child-care needs across the University and the announcement of two additional individuals working with the Task Forces to enhance confidential communications…