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Evon Z. Vogt memorial service to be held at Memorial Church A memorial service for Evon Z. Vogt, professor of social anthropology, emeritus, will be held Friday (Sept. 17) at…

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is committed to assisting all members of the Harvard community in providing for their own safety and security. Harvards annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), is titled Playing It Safe, and can…

Sept. 19, 1639 – Accused of neglecting and physically mistreating students, Nathaniel Eaton is fined and discharged as Master of the College by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts…

Theres an industry in the United States where costs are skyrocketing and quality is slipping dangerously. Despite astonishing technological advances, customers are generally dissatisfied and the workforce is grumbling louder than ever. The product is unavailable to a growing segment of Americans, and those who can access it must often wait up to six months…

It was quiet in Boylston Halls Ticknor Lounge one early August afternoon. But the silence masked the concentration of 30 academically talented, financially disadvantaged Boston and Cambridge youths as they imagined their futures – and plotted their paths to get there.

The familiar challenge of international terrorism will be central to the next president’s foreign policy agenda, but a panel of Harvard experts said that agenda will also include restoring America’s image abroad, a renewed focus on nuclear stockpile security, and relations with emerging superpower China.

A politically polarized nation and corporate concerns have applied increasing pressure on the nation’s major news broadcasters, top anchors told an audience at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Sunday (July 25), but they are resisting such pressures and perhaps doing their jobs better in the process.

Young adults who attended day care or nursery school when they were children were more than a third less likely to develop Hodgkin’s disease, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers.

For the second summer in a row, Youth Opportunity Boston’s talented membership has published the YO Journal. This year’s colorful issue is jampacked with photos, articles, and opinion pieces straight from the ‘hood. The topic for the fall 2004 issue is, appropriately enough, politics.

If ever a book-based film inspired questions of the original author, it is ‘Adaptation,’ the sideways interpretation of Susan Orlean’s 1998 nonfiction book ‘The Orchid Thief.’ Unlike most movies drawn from literature, in which the original author and often even the story itself disappear in a Hollywood haze, ‘Adaptation’ puts Orlean’s book – and Orlean…

Nearly 150 area high school students participating in summer science programs gathered today (July 23) at the Longwood Medical Area for Boston’s ‘other convention.’

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Maha for short) studies the obvious but ignored – how do flags flutter, worms wiggle, fabrics fold. ‘There’s a certain joy in trying to discover the sublime in the mundane,’ says the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at Harvard University.

When it comes to people, programs, and policies in education, Mica Pollock thinks we should talk about race more. And sometimes less. But mostly, Pollock, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), believes Americans need to learn to talk about racial issues in education better than we do.

Contrary to expectations, a startling number of large variations have been found in the human genome. The genetic blueprints for humans were thought to be 99.9 percent similar, but researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto in Canada have accidentally discovered large chunks of missing or added DNA in normal, healthy people.

Fewer college-educated women are keeping their maiden names at the altar, according to a Harvard study.

Scientists may have pinpointed a microscopic reason why people suffering from the most common type of vertigo experience a distinct time lag between a rapid head motion and the onset of dizziness. The explanation, the researchers say, could be that it takes five to six seconds for minuscule crystals in the inner ear to sediment…

HLS chooses architect for northwest corner Harvard Law School (HLS) recently announced the selection of Robert A.M. Stern Architects as the principal design firm to prepare a planning framework for…

Farrar to take helm of Harvard water polo Longtime collegiate water polo coach Erik Farrar will take the reins of Harvard’s men’s and women’s programs, it was announced earlier this…

Paul A. Zizzo of Arlington, Mass., benefits manager for Harvard University, died on Aug. 15 of complications from back surgery. He was 58.

Harvard athletes strut stuff in Athens Harvard graduate Brenda Taylor ’01 placed seventh in a field of eight in the women’s 400m hurdles on Wednesday evening (Aug. 25) in Athens.…

Robert C. Orr, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), left his post this month to become assistant secretary-general of the United Nations. In his new role, Orr is the UNs top official responsible for policy and planning, and the senior-most American…

The third annual Its Movie Time at Harvard – a free outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. The event is open to the entire University community and their families.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) officially kicked off a new research center Monday (Aug. 23) focused on understanding and reversing the immune system dysfunction that both causes diabetes and that presents a hurdle to potential cures.

A memorial celebration honoring the life of Philip S. Holzman will be held on Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holzman, who died on June 1, was the Esther and Sidney R. Rabb Professor of Psychology Emeritus, and professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, emeritus. A…