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  • Learning better

    In an event at the Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center, author Ellen Galinsky talked to principals, child-care providers, and parents about the “seven essential life skills every child needs.”

  • Executive director of Harvard Center Shanghai named

    Jeffrey R. Williams was named the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai on Nov. 22.

  • Governance Review Culminates in Changes to Harvard Corporation

    The Harvard Corporation, the governing board formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, will undertake a number of changes to its composition, structure, and practices, it was announced today (December 6).

  • Q&A on Harvard’s changing Corporation

    The Harvard Corporation is embracing a number of significant changes, including its first expansion since its creation 360 years ago. President Drew Faust and Robert Reischauer, the Corporation’s senior fellow, discuss the changes that are designed to expand the capacity of the President and Fellows of Harvard College as it guides the University forward.

  • Shopping in, and for, the Square

    Dozens of staff, faculty, and students — along with local business owners and Harvard President Drew Faust — turned out at Forbes Plaza on Dec. 2 to kick off Crimson Shops Local, an annual effort by the University and the Harvard Square Business Association to encourage shopping nearby for the holidays.

  • Registration open for 14-day reading course

    Registration is open for the Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies. The fee is $150.

  • Sampson named to Office of Justice advisory board

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder named Harvard Professor Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, to the newly created Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board on Nov. 23.

  • Faculty Council meeting held Dec. 1

    A summary of the Faculty Council meeting held on Dec. 1.

  • Generally, a happy anniversary

    As Harvard’s Gen Ed curriculum expands, it’s drawing ever-widening interest from students and faculty after its first year.

  • A look inside: Kirkland House

    Within the dark-paneled Junior Common Room of Kirkland House, comedic duo Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the masterminds behind the teenage hilarity in the films “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary,” entertained a crowd recently as part of the popular series “Conversations with Kirkland.”

  • Greening the Kennedy School

    Harvard Kennedy School makes quick progress in efforts to conserve energy use, promote recycling.

  • In search of Captain Nemo

    In this Student Voice column, a senior talks about how he learned to chart his own course while at Harvard.

  • Choral director honors tradition

    Harvard’s Holden Choirs use one word to describe their new director, Andrew Clark: energy. Clark and Kevin Leong conduct a holiday concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 10.

  • Star count of the universe may triple, new study suggests

    A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated.

  • Scholars venerable

    Retired Harvard faculty, some with astonishing personal stories, are windows onto a vanishing past, even as many continue to work in their fields.

    Emeritus Professor Daniel Aaron
  • ‘100 Reasons To Give’

    The Harvard Community Gifts campaign, which kicked off in December with a new theme — “100 Reasons To Give” — is accepting donations via payroll deduction until Jan. 21.

  • Renewing Harvard’s library system

    Setting a fresh course for the future of the Harvard library system, University leaders have embraced a series of recommendations from the Library Implementation Work Group to establish a coordinated management structure and increasingly focus resources on the opportunities presented by new information technology.

  • They ride by dawn

    With roots dating to 1890, an eclectic group gathers each fall for the cycling season, learning the rules of the road and having fun.

  • What’s possible

    The annual Arts & Humanities and Social Science Digital Technology Fair at Harvard’s Barker Center offers student and faculty a chance to explore the wide range of digital resources available for research and teaching.

  • Harvard encourages community to shop local this season

    Harvard University and the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) are teaming up again this holiday season to encourage the Harvard community to “think Harvard Square” and shop locally.

  • Harvard Overseer to perform at Nobel ceremony

    Harvard Board of Overseers member and virtuoso violinist Lynn Chang ’75 was selected by the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee to perform at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10.

  • Harvard Foundation honors Jagland

    The Harvard Foundation presented its annual Humanitarian Award to Thorbjørn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and secretary-general of the Council of Europe.

  • Book award named in Middle East scholar’s honor

    The Middle East Studies Association announced a new book award named for Professor Roger Owen of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

  • Two named Marshall Scholars

    Harvard seniors Kenzie Bok and Jonathan Warsh have received prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which will allow them to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom at the universities of their choice.

  • HBS’s Charles Christenson, 80

    Royal Little Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Charles J. Christenson died of natural causes at his Cambridge, Mass., home at the age of 80.

  • ‘100 Reasons To Give’

    With Harvard Community Gifts: 100 Reasons To Give, you can support one or more diverse organizations with a donation through payroll deduction or by check.

  • Peering into their futures

    Three Harvard College seniors and a first-year Harvard Medical School student are among the 32 American men and women named as 2011 Rhodes Scholars.

  • The Game 2010

    The classic fall showdown as a second-half deluge lifts the Crimson

  • HSPH professor awarded for diabetes research

    Columbia University Medical Center presented the 2010 Naomi Berrie Award to Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, the James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and the chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Rhodes Scholars announced

    Three Harvard undergraduates and a first-year Harvard Medical School student are among the 32 American men and women named Rhodes Scholars.