Featured series 
Month: June 2011
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Nation & World
A supernova that’s super different
A researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has uncovered a new way that stars end their lives, in a bright, fast explosion that appears different from the known characteristics of the stellar cataclysms called supernovas.
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Nation & World
Commencement Week: The long winding train
These photographs offer a tribute to the women and men of the Class of 2011, who become the most recent link in the “long winding train” of Harvard graduates.
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Nation & World
What’s behind aggressive breast cancer
Harvard scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified an overactive network of growth-spurring genes that drive stem-like breast cancer cells enriched in triple-negative breast tumors, a typically aggressive cancer that is highly resistant to current therapies.
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Nation & World
Faculty invited to seek January grants
This summer, Harvard faculty may want to start thinking about proposals for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, which begins accepting new applications on Sept. 1. Launched last year, the fund provides grants to faculty across Harvard for the development and implementation of creative learning experiences for students during Winter Break.
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Nation & World
ADHD linked to substance abuse risk
In a long-term study by Harvard researchers, data support the association between childhood ADHD and substance abuse risk.
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Nation & World
A.R.T. nabs six Elliot Norton Awards
The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, awarded on May 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Boston, honored the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) with six awards in the Large Theater category.
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Nation & World
Schools of the future
Drawing on their experience as young educators and designers, students from two very different disciplines joined forces to create fresh concepts for daily learning.
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Nation & World
ACLS honors students, grads, faculty
Current Harvard students, recent graduates, and two professors are among those recently awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.