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  • Welcome, Class of ’14

    Harvard convocation ceremony welcomes the Class of 2014.

  • Summer the Harvard way

    Harvard goes into overdrive in the summer months with a new crop of students ready to learn, and a variety of outreach programs developed for the local community.

  • Access Harvard on mobile device

    As of Sept. 1, members of the Harvard community will have everything they need to know about the University in the palms of their hands. Harvard has launched a strategic mobile initiative to package content from across the University for display on handheld devices.

  • Making the big move

    Families arrive at Harvard to move their students into dorms for the start of the fall semester.

  • A family welcome

    College Dean Evelynn Hammonds welcomes families of the Class of 2014 to campus.

  • Telescope Detects Possible Earth-Size Planet

    Harvard researchers working with NASA’s Kepler satellite reported Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away…

  • Under 35, and at the top

    Three 30-something Harvard researchers win TR35 technology honors for their innovative, world-shaping work.

  • The march is on

    The Earthwatch Institute will bring its scientists to the Allston-Brighton community on Aug. 30 for a discussion titled “Saving the Penguins of Robben Island, South Africa.”

  • Study Links Chronic Fatigue to Virus Class

    Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and Harvard Medical School link chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus

  • ‘Playing it Safe’ on campus

    The Harvard University Police Department is releasing its annual Clery Act Report titled “Playing it Safe.”

  • Copyright scholar Kaplan dies

    Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died on Aug. 18.

  • HBS professor nabs lifetime achievement award from NVCA

    Felda Hardymon, M.B.A. ’79, the M.B.A. Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association.

  • Audition for Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus

    The 180-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus is holding auditions for all voice parts on Sept. 4 and 5.

  • Excellence honored

    The American Political Science Association has recognized three Harvard affiliates for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics.

  • Statement on SEC 2010 second-quarter filing

    The Harvard Management Company’s most recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission details changes in holdings, as is routine, but no change in policy. The University has not…

  • Harvard grad awarded Fulbright

    Harvard graduate Alexander J. Berman ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Russia in filmmaking, the Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

  • Harvard voted league favorite

    Harvard was voted as the league favorite in the Ivy League preseason media poll, released today (Aug. 10) as part of the league’s annual football media day.

  • Scientists Unravel Secrets of Sound Sleep

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) find that people’s brain rhythms during sleep may hold the answer to sleeping through loud noise.

  • SEAS student awarded fellowship

    Emily Gardel, a Ph.D. candidate in applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded a three-year Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship.

  • HUCTW ratifies two-year contract

    Members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers ratified a two-year contract with the University that guarantees modest wage increases, and provides policy improvements on key issues such as layoff selections.

  • A picnic in the Yard

    Harvard hosts hundreds of senior elderly residents from Cambridge at the 35th Annual Senior Picnic at Tercentenary Theatre.

  • Teach for America taps talent

    More than three dozen Harvard graduates will join Teach for America this fall, as the University remains among the nation’s top contributors to the national education program.

  • Time travel in chalk

    Members of Professor Ann Pearson’s lab switched from science to art recently, decorating the slate panels outside the Hoffman Laboratory with depictions of three great eras in Earth’s history: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

  • Adrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology

    Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology at Harvard University, effective next Jan. 1.

  • Kindergarten skills pay off in big bucks

    Harvard-led study shows children, whether rich or poor, who were in top-scoring kindergarten classes back in the 1980s have grown up to earn about $1,000 more a year than their peers in weaker performing classes…

  • U.S. grants visa to journalist and Nieman fellow

    The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to leading Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. He is now free to travel to the United States, where he will begin a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

  • B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media

    Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile) and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business (Columbia Full-Time MBA Profile) have joined a growing list of business schools that are adding courses on social media to their MBA curricula…

  • Nasa Discoveries Spark Hopes Of Alien Life

    Nasa’s planet-hunting deep space observatory has found hundreds of new potential planets, sparking hopes of finding other worlds similar to Earth… Scientists say the results contradict older theories that had…

  • Zon, Scadden recognized by American Society of Hematology

    Two Harvard faculty members and members of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, David Scadden and Leonard Zon, have won awards from the American Society of Hematology for contributions to understanding and treating blood diseases.

  • Eat, pray, Lefty’s

    Lefty’s Silver Cart is the work of Philip Francis, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Divinity School with an affinity for profound reflection, and for produce.