Featured series 
Year: 2010
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Campus & Community
An education, not a job
An undergraduate explains why she majors in psychology, even though she expects her career paths will take her to other fields.
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Nation & World
Faust, student thank senator for help
President Drew Faust and Eric Balderas ’13 paid a visit to Sen. Richard Durbin’s office on Capitol Hill Wednesday (Sept. 15) to express their gratitude for his support of the DREAM Act and his assistance in helping the Harvard student avoid deportation earlier this year.
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Science & Tech
Harvard probes the final frontier
Since Harvard received its first telescope in the 1670s, its astronomers have pushed back the frontiers of knowledge about the ever-expanding, planet-rich place that is the universe.
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Campus & Community
Strong finish
More than 100 Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff ran in the annual Brian J. Honan 5K on Sept. 12.
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Campus & Community
The perfect dish? It’s all academic
This year, Harvard University has gathered 12 of the most accomplished chefs from around the world to teach “Science and Cooking’’ at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Ex-UK PM Gordon Brown to serve as Harvard fellow
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been named a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
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Campus & Community
IOP welcomes Gordon Brown as visiting fellow
Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics welcomes former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a visiting fellow.
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Nation & World
Huffington offers social media solution
Author and syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington discussed her recent book, her popular website, and what she sees as ways forward for America at a Harvard Kennedy School talk.
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Arts & Culture
Out of the studio, into the classroom
Seven take on teaching roles at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
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Campus & Community
Crossing that bridge
On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
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Health
Health reform alone may not increase access to physicians or reduce healthcare inequality gaps
In a new study, Harvard researchers looked at the effects of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform and found that the legislation has led to improvements in insurance coverage as well as a decline in financial barriers to care but has not increased people’s access to a personal physician or improve their self-rated health. Neither has…
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Arts & Culture
A master of motion
Artistic director offers students insights and technical tips on the graceful yet grueling craft of ballet during master class.
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Nation & World
Alternative vacation
Harvard students and friends spend two weeks working and helping an impoverished corner of the Dominican Republic.
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Campus & Community
Collecting race, ethnicity data
In compliance with new government regulations, Harvard is required to collect ethnicity information from faculty and staff. In addition, Harvard employees will have an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify their veteran status.
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Arts & Culture
Aftermath of a world at war
“Our World at War” photo exhibit revisits the scenes of recent conflicts, exposing a penumbra of pain, fortitude, and even joy.
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Science & Tech
NIH resumes funding stem cell research – for now
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that it is resuming funding embryonic stem cell research. “We are pleased with the…interim ruling” yesterday by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ” which will allow promising stem cell research to continue while we present further arguments…
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Campus & Community
New January Innovation Fund Established
Harvard President Drew Faust today (Sept. 10) announced the creation of the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, a special venture fund to support the development and implementation of creative academic or co-curricular experiences for students during the January break period.
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Campus & Community
Harvard endowment posts strong positive return
Harvard’s endowment earned an investment return of 11 percent for the year and was valued at $27.6 billion on June 30.
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Campus & Community
Support for student life
Harvard’s undergraduates will compete and perform across the country and enjoy the rituals of residential life on campus again this year, thanks to renewed support from Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds’ Student Life Fund.
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Nation & World
Documenting a colonial past
A Harvard doctoral student and two recent graduates worked in Kenya this summer with Harvard history professor Caroline Elkins to lay the foundation for a collaboration with Kenyan scholars to record the African nation’s experience gaining independence from Britain.
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Campus & Community
They’re good without God
The first humanist student and community center on a U.S. campus opens in Harvard Square.
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Campus & Community
In good taste
Harvard launches “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.” The class, open only to undergraduates, is part of the new Gen Ed curriculum, which introduces students to subject matter and skills from across the University.
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Arts & Culture
Off the beaten path
A new exhibition, “Rev. Badger’s Misfits: Deviations and Diversions,” at the Harvard Map Collection, asks viewers to consider some of these “cartographic curiosities.”
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Nation & World
In Pakistan, controlling water is key
Pakistan’s long-term water security requires institutional renewal and new infrastructure, including new dams, on the Indus River.
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Campus & Community
Medical Liability Costs Make Up 2.4% of U.S. Health Spending
Medical malpractice and guarding against suits cost the U.S. about $55.6 billion annually, or 2.4 percent of the total health-care bill, according to Harvard University’s Atul Gawande and co-authors.
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Campus & Community
Extra help
Harvard is making sure that approximately 3,000 bags of homework support materials for grades K-5 will be distributed to family members attending Boston Public Schools’ Back-to-School Night sessions beginning in mid-September.
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Arts & Culture
Melding Spanish and spirituality
A new language course offers students at Harvard Divinity School a chance to develop a nuanced cultural approach to their ministry work.
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Arts & Culture
Sit down, stay a while
A new season of performances involving the Common Spaces Chairs Project kicked off with the chairs as the star.
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Campus & Community
Stepping into action
Harvard programs help incoming freshmen to get into the flow
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Science & Tech
President Faust issues statement supporting federal funding of stem cell research
A temporary restraining order last month that blocked federal funding for certain kinds of stem cell research was viewed by many as a blow to cutting-edge science that already is yielding clues to cures for a number of fatal illnesses and chronic diseases. Harvard has been in the vanguard of such research, and the University,…