Featured series 
Year: 2012
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Campus & Community
Welcoming service
Rising sophomores are connecting with each other, their new House, and the community this spring through Harvard College Serves (HCS). Launched this year by the College Events Board, HCS joins incoming freshmen with House public service student representatives and public service tutors for volunteer projects at area nonprofits.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s 361st Commencement
Important information for Harvard’s 361st Commencement, to be held on May 24.
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Campus & Community
Memorial for Paul Doty
A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
14 elected to American Academy
Fourteen faculty members from Harvard have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Soccer for a cause
The Harvard men’s soccer team took on the Haiti National Team in a match to benefit the Haitian Football Federation and Partners In Health April 22 at Harvard Stadium.
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Campus & Community
Law School dedicates new building
University leaders, donors, alumni, professors past and present, representatives from the city of Cambridge, and members of the architectural firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects participated in the dedication of Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing Building on April 20.
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Science & Tech
How to organize chaos
Executives from a leading debris-recovery firm, Phillips & Jordan Inc., were at Harvard on April 19 to discuss challenges and lessons learned in two decades of aiding the biggest cleanup efforts in the United States.
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Campus & Community
A night of fun, fellowship — and math
More than 150 students and family members participated in Family Math Night at the Gardner Pilot Academy. The academy had support from the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative.
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Arts & Culture
Illuminating an unseen history
In his new book, “Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico,” Assistant Professor of Anthropology Matthew Liebmann offers a first-of-its-kind look at how the Pueblo people lived during their brief independence from Spain.
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Campus & Community
Ragon study is honored
A study by researchers at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard is among those chosen to receive Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards from the Clinical Research Foundation.
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Campus & Community
OFA awards undergrad art prizes
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2012.
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Health
Turing was right
Researchers at Harvard have shown that Nodal and Lefty — two proteins linked to the regulation of asymmetry in vertebrates and the development of precursor cells for internal organs — fit a mathematical model first described by Alan Turing six decades ago.
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Arts & Culture
Getting students to perform
Harvard Professor of Music Richard Wolf fell in love with the vina, a South Indian lute, while in college. Now he uses his passion for the vina and other non-Western instruments to help others learn how to play and understand music from other cultures.
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Science & Tech
Illuminating carbon’s climate effects
Harvard researchers compiled ice and sedimentary core samples collected from dozens of locations around the world, and found evidence that while changes in Earth’s orbit may have touched off a warming trend, increases in CO2 played a far more important role in pushing the planet out of the ice age.
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Campus & Community
Renewing a hub of Harvard
It has played host to farmers markets, seen musical performances, and been the site of a skating rink. Now, the plaza outside Harvard’s Science Center is about to be refurbished, with the goal of transforming it from a pedestrian walkway into a vibrant meeting space for Harvard student, faculty, and staff events, and the surrounding…
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Campus & Community
Treasures hiding in plain sight
A program at Widener Library rescues vulnerable holdings from its 65 miles of shelves by linking alert students with Harvard authorities on conservation and digitization.
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Campus & Community
In the spirit of the law
A new complex at Harvard Law School is designed to pull its offshoots together, while promoting collaboration and interaction. Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Elena Kagan will be on hand to dedicate the new building on April 20.
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Science & Tech
Earth’s sister in the crosshairs
A new book by Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov explains the revolution in understanding the universe that views life as a natural part of planetary evolution and that has researchers on the brink of finding worlds that echo this one.
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Nation & World
Policing for, and with, the community
The idea that law enforcement should work with citizens to help prevent, reduce, and solve crimes took flight through an unusual collaboration of academics and police leaders at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s long-ago student risings
A century of occasional unrest at American colleges reflected a time of unbridled liberty and questionable self-discipline.
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Arts & Culture
Six fresh books worth perusing
Among these recent titles by Harvard writers, there’s something for everyone.
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Arts & Culture
Tripping the arts fantastic
Harvard’s Arts First festival is celebrating its 20th year with poetry, performance, and a stunning public art display.
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Campus & Community
The story of the girl with pink sneakers
A budding reporter learns to combine her appreciation of science with the joys of storytelling.
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Campus & Community
At Herbaria, a new career blossoms
Museum exhibition designer Danielle Hanrahan always loved art and nature. A late-in-life career move to the Harvard Herbaria allowed her a chance to explore the latter.
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Health
Beyond the ivory tower, into the world
The Harvard School of Public Health’s Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development seeks to give faculty the tools to create broad change and to connect global leaders with the School’s research to improve conditions on the ground.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Eliot House
At Eliot House, the river House named for Harvard’s longest-serving president, crew is king.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry in motion
Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.
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Arts & Culture
Echoes of the Titanic
On the centennial of the ship’s sinking, Harvard historian Steven Biel has a new edition of his book, which traces the cultural arc of that myth-making disaster.
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Arts & Culture
McEwan recounts his missteps
Fact-fussy readers help author to remember that a novel’s “air of reality” is among its supreme virtues.
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Health
The future of self-knowledge
Anne Wojcicki, chief executive officer and co-founder of 23andMe, talked about growth in personal genomics in an event sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Society.
