Featured series 
Year: 2012
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Campus & Community
Spend an evening with champions
More than a dozen world-class figure skaters will take to the ice for a cause later this month as part of the 43rd annual An Evening with Champions.
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Health
Targeting childhood obesity early
With childhood obesity now affecting 17 percent of American children, the nation is rallying around the concept that serious action is required. Harvard researchers have identified some key triggers for obesity in early childhood.
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Nation & World
“Jesus said to them, my wife”
Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, Harvard Professor Karen King told the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies, September 18, 2012.
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Nation & World
Poverty in America, 2012
Scholars from across the nation gathered at Harvard on Friday to examine the persistent problems of race, poverty, and economic inequality in the United States. The conference was focused around the 25th anniversary of the publication of “The Truly Disadvantaged” by University Professor William Julius Wilson.
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Campus & Community
Yard full of fun
The College Events Board welcomed back Harvard students on Friday with its annual outdoor festival. This year’s event transformed Harvard Yard into a carnival, complete with a bounce house, dunk tank, games, music, and carnival food.
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Arts & Culture
Best practices writ large
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen has built a storied career by, as he puts it, telling business leaders not what to think, but how to think about running their companies. In the two years since suffering a stroke, he’s tackled two other equally ambitious tasks: relearning how to speak, and teaching the rest of us how…
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Campus & Community
From library to living room
The newly renovated first floor of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) was unveiled Wednesday night. The space was completely changed and updated over the summer as part of the College’s efforts to enhance undergraduate social spaces.
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Campus & Community
Feeding culinary curiosity: kids’ science and cooking
Boston and Cambridge students between the ages of 9 and 12 take part in “Kids’ Science and Cooking,” a new program hosted by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in cooperation with ChopChop, a nonprofit cooking magazine for kids.
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Arts & Culture
Hip-hop and spoken word at Harvard
Harvard Law School graduate Bryonn Bain brings his dynamic teaching style to campus this fall with his new course “Hip Hop and the Spoken Word: Theater Performance Laboratory.”
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Nation & World
Block the vote
Should citizens have to show photo identification to vote? In recent years, many states have decided they do. A group of panelists debated the hotly partisan issue — and the possible implications for poor and elderly voters — at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Arts & Culture
Voice packed with passion
Bryonn Bain introduced his new class, “Hip Hop and Spoken Word: Theater Performance Laboratory,” to a young crowd at Farkas Hall during Harvard’s Shopping Week.
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Science & Tech
Alan Turing at 100
Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments celebrates the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, whose ideas theorized the first computers, spurred the science of artificial intelligence, and — oh yes — helped save the Allies during World War II.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names vice provost for research
Harvard names Richard McCullough of Carnegie Mellon University as the vice provost for research.
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Campus & Community
In MAC Quad, a cardboard castle
Arriving Harvard students helped to build the world’s largest cardboard box fort in the MAC Quad.
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Science & Tech
Figuring out fairness
A new Harvard study suggests that children as young as 3 consider merit — a key part of more-advanced ideas of fairness — when distributing resources.
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Health
Fat fighters found in fat tissue
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have found that a type of immune cell plays a role in guarding against obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease.
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Health
Skin cancer detection breakthrough
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have pinpointed when seemingly innocuous skin pigment cells mutate into melanoma.
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Campus & Community
So close and yet so far
The latest freshman class, sweepingly broad geographically, includes students from 10,000 miles away and some from Harvard’s own ZIP code.
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Health
Pain relievers increase hearing loss risk
According to a study by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, women who took ibuprofen or acetaminophen two or more days per week had an increased risk of hearing loss.
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Arts & Culture
Of love, death, and garbage
Author Rajesh Parameswaran kicked off this year’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s series of fellow presentations with a discussion that included readings from his well-received debut work, as well as a passage from his novel in progress.
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Science & Tech
Planets form in cosmic maelstrom
At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets still can form in this cosmic maelstrom.
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Nation & World
Syria in the crosshairs
Murhaf Jouejati, a professor and a member of the Syrian National Council, a coalition of exiled opposition groups, offered his perspective on the crisis in Syria.
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Campus & Community
The sharing of the green
At orientation sessions, Harvard’s Schools provide students with information on how to live more sustainably and help the University to reduce its environmental footprint.
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Health
Health in the balance
In research, treatment, and outreach, researchers from Harvard Medical School are taking on the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States. This is the first in a three-part series.
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Science & Tech
Needle beam stays on point
A Harvard-led team of researchers has demonstrated a new type of light beam that propagates without spreading outward, remaining very narrow and controlled along an unprecedented distance. It could greatly reduce signal loss for on-chip optical systems and may eventually assist the development of a more powerful class of microprocessors.
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Campus & Community
Back to basics
Military training returns to Harvard, as ROTC cadets participate in their first on-campus workouts in 41 years.
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Nation & World
After 9/11, health lessons ignored
The public health lessons of 9/11 and subsequent anthrax attacks haven’t been learned, said Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurie Garrett during a talk at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Science & Tech
Capturing the stars
Alex Parker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, sees astronomical data as art as well as science.
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Campus & Community
No summer lull in learning
It was a busy summer of Harvard-supported learning on campus and in the neighboring communities.
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Campus & Community
Venice and the built world
Several representatives of the Harvard Graduate School of Design took part in the Venice Biennale, a leading architectural event. Dean Mohsen Mostafavi helped to host an opening reception for the American Pavilion.
