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  • Two Deans’ Challenges garner 90 proposals

    Ten student-led teams have been named finalists in the Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge and the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge. Grand prize winners will be named on May 4.

  • Harvard Art Museums director named

    Harvard University Provost Alan Garber announced the appointment of Martha Tedeschi as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, beginning in July.

  • A special notice regarding Commencement Day

    A guide to Commencement 2016.

  • Assault Prevention Task Force recommendations

    The Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force issued its final report and made recommendations to President Drew Faust about how best to confront this troubling issue.

  • A limit on football tackling

    Harvard football coach Tim Murphy explains the unanimous vote by the Ivy League’s coaches to end full-contact practices, promoting safety.

  • President’s Challenge narrows field to 10 finalists

    Ten teams have been selected as finalists for the 2016 President’s Challenge, President Drew Faust will award $100,000 to be shared among the grand prize winners on April 25.

  • Refresh, recuperate, reflect

    A Harvard freshman considers the lessons of winter break.

  • My buddy

    Juniors Fatima Bishtawi and Amanda Mozea made lasting connections through the Best Buddies program.

  • Philip Blackett tells teens what follows failure

    Magnetic Interviewing founder and CEO Philip Blackett, an M.B.A. candidate at Harvard Business School, shared his failures and what can follow with students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin.

  • President Faust’s climate initiative awards $1M in grants

    The recipients of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust, were announced. The 10 winning projects are purposely diverse in focus, ranging from policy and law to science and health. Several use Harvard’s campus as a “living laboratory” — when possible — for testing and evaluating their ideas.

  • Harvard joins in filing NLRB brief

    Harvard joins other private universities in legal brief asking NLRB to keep prior ruling avoiding graduate student unions.

  • Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 24

    On Feb. 24 the members of the Faculty Council met. Their next council meeting is March 9. The next meeting of the faculty is March 1.

  • Kleckner receives Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

    Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, has been awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal by the Genetics Society of America in recognition of her many significant contributions to our understanding of chromosomes and the mechanisms of inheritance.

  • Futuristic PIVOT app serves up Harvard history

    Harvard University formally launched its official interactive online tour app last week. PIVOTtheWorld is a free app that allows visitors to visually experience the history of Harvard with a swipe — or pivot — of their smart phone.

  • Lucy Liu applauds students for honoring cultural diversity

    The Harvard Foundation honored Lucy Liu as its 2016 Artist of the Year.

  • Candidates for overseer and elected director announced

    This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors. Ballots will be mailed no later than April 1 and must be received in Cambridge by noon on May 20 to be counted.

  • Spring events preview: What to experience this season

    Get out your calendars — here are the must-see events at Harvard this spring.

  • Michelle Williams to lead Harvard Chan School

    Michelle A. Williams, a distinguished epidemiologist and educator, will become the next dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  • Books that pop

    The possibilities of pop-ups far exceed peekaboo with paper. Take a look through the gallery to see where examples pop up across Harvard’s libraries.

  • Lacking a loo no longer

    Cambridge opens a stand-alone, year-round public toilet for Harvard Square

  • The student perspective

    During semester break, a Harvard freshman tells urban middle schoolers to dream big when applying to college.

  • Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 10

    On Feb. 10 the members of the Faculty Council voted to approve proposed legislation regarding the General Education Program.

  • House renewal benefits from Hutchins Family Challenge

    In 2012, the Hutchins Family Foundation created a fundraising challenge for House renewal. The challenge has been completed with more than $50 million from 40 generous gifts.

  • A look inside: Undergraduate House libraries

    Each of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate residential Houses has a library, and despite their rich histories and outward grandeur, these are intimate spaces. Students spend long stretches clicking away on laptops…

  • A record high for applications

    Applications for admission to Harvard College are up 4.6 percent this year, with 39,044 students applying to the Class of 2020.

  • Harvard biologist is first woman to lead HHMI

    Erin O’Shea, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named the sixth president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

  • Hailing Joseph Gordon-Levitt

    Hasty Pudding Theatricals hails actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt as its 50th Man of the Year.

  • ‘A better version of itself’

    Now 175 years old, the Harvard Alumni Association is still building, as its executive director says, a “better version of itself.”

  • Ups and downs at Harvard Stadium

    “Good morning!” barks a scarf-wrapped runner in tights, peering through the darkness as she climbs the steps into cavernous Harvard Stadium. A woman nearby responds, “Oh, Hallie, how are you?…

  • Professor shares expertise on life’s contracts

    Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried drew from his HarvardX course, “Contract Law: From Trust to Promise to Contract,” at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of its