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  • It’s morning in a new year

    Harvard President Drew Faust spoke at the first Morning Prayers service, encouraging listeners to consider the past as a “valuable resource” for contemplating the future.

  • Remembering 9/11

    Harvard plans services, vigils, panels to draw meaning from 10th anniversary of 9/11 tragedy.

  • Library seeking proposals for Library Lab

    The Harvard University Library is soliciting proposals for projects to improve the library via the Library Lab program.

  • They Ride by Dawn

    They are an eclectic group of Harvard students, staff, faculty, and community members. They range in age from their late teens to 50-something. They can be freshmen or CEOs, but they move fast, and under their own power. They ride by bike.

  • Tropical Storm Irene

    Harvard University officials responded to reports of downed utility lines and broken branches, but received no reports of injuries or serious damage as Tropical Storm Irene passed through the region.…

  • Hurricane Irene situation report

    Update on the Hurricane Irene situation.

  • Hammonds greets Class of 2015

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds welcomed members of the Class of 2015 to campus during a session at Sanders Theatre.

  • Harvard battles MIT in consulting competition

    Harvard hosted the third annual MIT vs. Harvard Case Competition.

  • Harvard’s Mobile Yard Tour app

    Harvard University is commemorating its 375th anniversary this year with a special gift — a mobile tour of Harvard Yard for visitors, neighbors, and members of the Harvard community.

  • One person’s trash …

    Children will turn rubbish into toys during the “Trash Tales” event at the Peabody Museum on Aug. 20.

  • Peabody receives $150,000 grant

    The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a $150,000 Museums for America grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

  • Hidden Spaces: The tiny cemetery

    Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. The little cemetery, hidden at the far end of the 265-acre Arboretum, holds several headstones and a crypt and was once part of the Walter Street “Berrying” Ground.

  • Intuitive eating seminar open for enrollment

    Harvard University Health Services’ Intuitive Eating Seminar is open for registration.

  • Harvard College student awarded Pearson Prize

    Harvard College’s Niharika Jain is one of 70 students from around the country who have been awarded the Pearson Prize for Higher Education.

  • Havens, professor of psychology, dies

    Leston Havens, professor of psychology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died on July 29 after an extended illness.

  • Brown wins Sacks Award for research

    The National Institute of Statistical Sciences has presented the 2011 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to Emery N. Brown of MIT and Harvard.

  • The classroom, circa 2050

    Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy encourages students to design an offbeat, futuristic high school, applying geometry lessons in the process.

  • Schermerhorn named distinguished fellow

    The Society for Vascular Surgery elected Harvard Medical School professor Marc Schermerhorn as a distinguished fellow.

  • Ten professors named Cabot Fellows

    Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.

  • Digging in the Yard, it’s child’s play

    Summer school students unearthed a variety of artifacts during their archaeology class in Harvard Yard, the most unusual of which was a fragment of a doll’s face from the 1800s.

  • Baruj Benacerraf, Nobel laureate, 90

    Baruj Benacerraf, who earned a 1980 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his groundbreaking research in immunology and led Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through a period of tremendous growth beginning that year, died in Boston on Aug. 2 at the age of 90.

  • Green building milestone

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 1, 2011 — In a first for any higher education institution, Harvard University has achieved its 50th Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The green…

  • A green building milestone

    As of this week, Harvard became the first higher education institution to complete 50 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for construction projects around campus, a process 10 years in the making.

  • IOP announces fall fellows

    The Institute of Politics, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, announced the selection of an experienced group of individuals for resident and visiting fellowships this fall.

  • Harvard Farmers’ Market

    From lettuce to lobsters and everything in between, Harvard Farmers’ Market vendors dish on the fruits of their labor.

  • Plans in motion

    Boston’s new bike-sharing program, Hubway, launches today (July 28), and University officials, in collaboration with the city of Cambridge, are planning to bring the program to Harvard’s main campus, possibly as early as this fall.

  • A cuisine reigns supreme

    Harvard Summer School students sharpened their knives, fired up the hibachis, and went to work for this year’s sixth annual Iron Chef Competition, a showcase of local ingredients and budding culinary talent.

  • Borjas co-wins prestigious economics prize

    The Institute for the Study of Labor has announced that this year’s IZA Prize in Labor Economics will be awarded to George J. Borjas of Harvard University and Barry R. Chiswick of George Washington University for their fundamental contributions to the economic analysis of migration and integration.

  • Garden party

    The Harvard Farmers’ Market is back and its offerings are fresher, better than ever.

  • Library Park opens in Allston

    Harvard and Boston celebrated the opening of Library Park in Allston, a new community space on Harvard-donated land. Complete with fountains, footpaths, and 150 new trees, the 1.74-acre green space is located behind the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library. A hallmark of sustainability, lifelong residents remembered its industrial past, while praising it transformation into functional beauty.