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  • Campus & Community

    Cultivating friendship amid diversity

    Since its inception, the Harvard Foundation has worked to promote cultural understanding and harmony among students, faculty, and staff. It has done so through a variety of lectures, debates, dinners, and arts festivals, and through support for student cultural organizations.

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    John T. McGreevy, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, has won the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize for his book, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North, which was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995. The award is given each year to the…

  • Health

    Aging Brains Lose Less Than Thought

    It’s considered a dreaded inevitability of growing old—you lose thousands of brain cells every day. This idea has been a centerpiece of scientific dogma and popular lore for 40 years. When new technology became available to actually count cells in different parts of the brain, neurologists at the Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital…