Campus & Community

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.

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.

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

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

This season, soccer’s Melanie Baskind ’12 makes her return to lacrosse — and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

Stephen Blyth, managing director of the Harvard Management Company, doubles as a faculty member in the Statistics Department, bringing real-world financial acumen to studying numbers.

A collaboration by the Foundation Alícia (Alimentació i Ciència), headed by chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli fame, and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has led…

The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation have named Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2010-11.

Scott Ruescher’s interest in Latin America spawned a lengthy career in volunteer work — not to mention, he’s also a poet.

Three Harvard Business School professors, Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice; and Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, were recently honored with 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

By a roundabout route, Robin Kelsey became an authority on photography, eventually becoming a professor in the field at Harvard.

J. Sterling Livingston, a retired professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), died on Feb. 14 from multiple organ failure. He was 93.

Robert J. Madix, a senior research fellow in chemical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Sang-Hee Shim, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with her mentor Martin T. Zanni, an associate professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison, were honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco on March 23 for their chemistry research.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2010, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Andrew Mattei Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Gleason’s best-known work is his resolution of Hilbert’s Fifth Problem.

Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has been awarded a $5,000 prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. The foundation annually honors poets under the age of 40 whose work celebrates the human spirit.

Qualification for the NCAA Championships has become something of a ritual for recent members of the Harvard women’s fencing team, a far cry from the sports origins on campus dating back to 1888, but not far removed from the year the team officially came into being in 1974.

Robert C. Merton, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School and the 1997 co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic Sciences, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London.

A memorial gathering in remembrance of Leon Kirchner, the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus, will be held on Apr. 8 (7:30-9:30 p.m.) at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.

At its eleventh meeting of the year on March 24, the Faculty Council discussed a proposed conflict of interest policy and the report of the Committee to Review the Administrative Board.

Augustus A. White III, the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the fifth annual William W. Tipton Jr. M.D. Leadership Award for his work as an educator, mentor, and champion of diversity initiatives.

What big questions will occupy the world’s social scientists in the coming decades? On Saturday (April 10), a dozen “big thinkers” will share their thoughts on the hardest problems in social science.

Harvard admits 2,110 out of more than 30,000 applicants to the Class of 2014, a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. More than 60 percent of the new students will receive need-based scholarships averaging $40,000.