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  • Bringing men’s lax back

    Third-year head coach John Tillman helps Harvard lacrosse return to national prominence.

  • Boston shines 2010

    For the eighth consecutive year, Harvard University is joining with Allston neighbors and local businesses to participate in the city of Boston’s citywide neighborhood cleanup event in Allston on April 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.

  • Lukas Prize Project Awards announced for 2010

    The Nieman Foundation at Harvard and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism recently announced this year’s recipients of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction.

  • Paula T. Hammond wins 2010 Scientist of the Year

    The Harvard Foundation presented the 2010 Scientist of the Year Award to Paula T. Hammond, the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as part of its annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.

  • Two GSAS physics students named Hertz Foundation Fellows

    The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has awarded Hertz Fellowships to Adam Marblestone, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Biophysics Program, and Tony Pan, a theoretical astrophysics Ph.D. candidate at Harvard.

  • Stalking the ‘big idea’

    One of the organizers of the first “Harvard Thinks Big” session reflects on why the program that had 10 professors speak for 10 minutes about their one big idea proved so successful.

  • A la carte for freshmen

    Advising Fortnight sessions help freshmen to determine their passions, as they survey many academic areas in choosing their concentrations.

  • PBK inducts Class of 2011 members

    The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, elected 24 juniors at a private ceremony at Leverett House on April 13.

  • János Kornai receives the highest Hungarian state decoration

    János Kornai, the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard, on March 15 was presented with Hungary’s highest state decoration, the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.

  • GSD names Krzysztof Wodiczko professor in residence

    Harvard’s Graduate School of Design names Krzysztof Wodiczko, an authority on large-scale slide and video projections, as professor in residence of art, design, and the public domain.

  • Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School has launched a revamped Web site. The enhanced site reflects the integration and program development that the center has accomplished over the past two years.

  • Campaign to turn Crimson green

    Harvard makes great strides in cutting its everyday energy use, saving money and greening the campus in the process.

  • Oglesby Paul

    Oglesby Paul, a towering figure in the field of internal medicine and cardiology and one-time former dean of admissions at Harvard Medical School, is remembered for tirelessly serving both his patients and students.

  • The gym unlocker

    Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.

  • Silk Road Project moves to Harvard

    The Silk Road Project will move its headquarters to Harvard University this summer, strengthening a partnership between the University and the world-renowned organization that promotes innovation and learning through the arts.

  • Bill Lee to join Harvard Corporation

    William F. Lee, A.B. ’72, a Boston-based intellectual property expert and former Harvard Overseer who leads one of the nation’s most prominent law firms, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today (April 11).

  • Seeing Harvard from all sides

    Bill Lee, who is the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, has seen Harvard from many vantage points: He attended the College, has taught at the Law School, served as an Overseer and has been a proud Harvard parent – twice. As he prepared to join the Corporation, Lee sat down with the Gazette to share his perspective on an institution that has been part of his life for four decades.

  • Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96

    Nathan Keyfitz, professor of demography and sociology at Harvard from 1972 to 1983, recently died at the age of 96. Keyfitz was a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.

  • Harvard-based pay-for-study experiment shows students incentivized to actions, not results

    A program that paid city students if they got higher test scores earned an F, a new study shows.

  • Study: Walking Seems to Lower Women’s Stroke Risk

    Women can lower their stroke risk by lacing up their sneakers and walking, a new study suggests…

  • Radiation use may raise adult cancer risk

    NEW YORK — Women’s risk of developing breast cancer may increase as much as 20-fold if they were treated with chest radiation for malignancies as children or young adults, according…

  • Special notice regarding Commencement Exercises

    A special notice regarding Commencement Exercises for those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises offers guidelines for the May 27 event.

  • Harvard College, MIT launch pilot program

    Harvard College and MIT start pilot program that allows undergraduates at each school to access each other’s libraries.

  • Bill Gates to speak at Sanders

    Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates will visit Harvard April 21 and will speak about the importance of giving back to the community.

  • In last semester, ‘Last Lectures’

    As a prelude to graduation, seniors organize a “Last Lecture” series to receive advice from favorite professors.

  • From Homeless to Harvard

    Everyone has baggage, but Lalita Booth’s is heavier than most.

  • Helping outside the classroom

    HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.

  • Reflecting on a young life

    A freshman reflects on an eye-opening seminar session, designed to prompt Harvard undergrads to step back from the striving and ponder what life means to them, and what they value.

  • Behind the blue

    Harvard’s two new deputy police chiefs discuss their transitions, and what everyday life is like covering the University.

  • The greening of the Law School

    Harvard Law School moves aggressively to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.