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A guest expert with real-world experience can enliven any college class, from physics to literature.

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris visited the Harvard Film Archive for a benefit screening of his newest film The Fog of War, a look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as secretary of defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Morris confesses during the Q&A session, One of my greatest fears is to…

New hope may be on the horizon for some people with the wet form of macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease in which abnormal blood vessel growth causes loss of vision. Results of two large international clinical trials have shown positive results using Macugen, an experimental treatment that targets these abnormal blood vessels. The results,…

When Eric Dawson started Peace Games as a Harvard undergraduate in 1992, his aim was to prevent violence by equipping children with the skills they needed to resolve conflict. Since that time Harvard student volunteers have taught conflict resolution each year in Cambridge and Boston public schools.

In the 1920s, a young bandleader named Duke Ellington galvanized audiences at Harlems Cotton Club with infectiously rhythmic dance tunes that came to be known as jungle music because of their supposed resemblance to the music of Africa.

Prior to the beginning of the first of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science, President Lawrence H. Summers (from left) speaks with Keith DeRose, professor of philosophy at Yale University Tanner lecturer Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Understanding of Science at Oxford University…

A significant change in policy has predictably decreased the number of students applying to Harvard College under its nonbinding Early Action program by almost 50 percent compared with last year. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid estimates just under 4,000 students will apply Early Action for admission to the class of 2008, compared with…

Free flu shots available University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning in November. The walk-in clinics are being held at…

Subjects ranged from warrior berserkers to Jessica Lynch as students, faculty, and staff at the John F. Kennedy School of Government engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of masculinity, femininity, and warfare Thursday (Nov. 13) in a lunchtime talk with the author of a new book on the subject.

This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Democractic presidential candidates.

In many ways, Australia and the United States seem mirror images of one another.

Jon Woodward was born in Wichita, Kan., where Wyatt Earp was once marshal. The Woodwards werent outlaws. They were more like the families for whose benefit men like Earp had tamed the West. Woodwards father was the principal of a Lutheran elementary school. His mother worked there as a teacher until she dropped out to…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

First-year Riya Sen studies for her government class in her dorm room while listening to music and looking out at bustling Massachusetts Avenue.

Nov. 21, 1953 – In Yales Woolsey Hall on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football game, Yale confers an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon recently installed Harvard President Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, AM 32, PhD 37. Not in his fondest dreams, [Pusey] said – with a solemnity which brought a smile to the faces…

A shadow of a tree cast by the late afternoon, mid-November sun has the ominous looking limbs of some strange arboreal creature.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Youve read The Book. Now see the exhibition.

A quarter of the mail delivered to Cambridges 02138 ZIP code is Harvard-bound. And of that, 77 percent goes through Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS), where a relatively lean operation of staff and students shepherds it to its final destinations.

MHS honors Chandler with Kennedy Medal Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Isidor Strauss Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received the John F. Kennedy Medal from…

The professions of medicine, otolaryngology, and head and neck surgery have lost a giant in the passing of William Wayne Montgomery, said Joseph B. Nadol Jr., Walter Augustus Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

North Koreas long-running food shortage is a crisis of the nations own making that is hitting nonelite city residents hard and, without a leadership change, shows no sign of stopping.

Speaking by phone from his office at Oxford University, biologist Richard Dawkins politely declined to talk in detail about his upcoming lecture series at Harvard, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science.

For filmmaker Ed Zwick 74, the premiere of his forthcoming film The Last Samurai at the Harvard Square Theater Sunday night (Nov. 9) completed a circle he began more than 30 years ago.

Drink up, Harvard.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvards Longwood campus are squaring off in an energy-saving duel that asks faculty, staff, and graduate students to Go Cold Turkey over Thanksgiving weekend.

New Nieman wing to honor Knight Foundation The newly added wing to the Walter Lippmann House – home of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard – will be named in honor…

A school-record 35 digs by co-captain Allison Bendush 04 wasnt enough to lift the Harvard womens volleyball team past visiting Yale on Saturday (Nov. 8), as the Crimson dropped its final home match of the season, 3-1. The loss, which fell on the heels of Harvards 3-0 sweep of Brown on Nov. 7, ends a…