One hundred years from now what will people think of Post-it notes, wind-up toys, or the technological marvel of our generation, the smartphone? Future Harvard faculty, students, staff, and administrators…

CommuterChoice is pleased to announce that MBTA commuters can now pay for parking related expenses on a pre-tax basis. Here’s how it works: Commuters set aside up to $245 per…

Women whose diet includes more foods that trigger inflammation—like sugar-sweetened or diet soft drinks, refined grains, red meat, and margarine—and fewer foods that restrain inflammation—like wine, coffee, olive oil, and…

The Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association has launched a website featuring weekly profiles of accomplished black female graduates who represent the broad mosaic of the HBS community. The site…

Elaborately dressed as elegant skeletons and wearing “sugar skull” makeup or just party clothes, guests filled the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology’s Latin American galleries on Saturday night. Once…

A new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of Perugia (UNIPG) researchers has shown that egg development in the mosquito species primarily responsible for spreading…

A group of men in Harvard’s medical community are growing mustaches in November to raise awareness and money for men’s health, particularly prostate and testicular cancer, as part of an…

Two Harvard physicists earlier this week were among several researchers to receive the Physics Frontier Prize from the Milner Foundation. Andrew Strominger, the Gwill E. York Professor of Physics and…

Norm J. Jones, who has had a long and distinguished career in academic diversity, compliance and inclusion, has been appointed the Associate Chief Diversity Officer and Deputy Director in the…

What’s the best way to approach difficult-to-achieve public health goals? Be flexible. Be comfortable with “good enough.” See the glass as half-full instead of half-empty. Those were some of the…

Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced today the creation of the Sheila C. Johnson Fellowships, which are slated to bring to HKS each year ten emerging leaders dedicated to improving the…

Paul Bellenoit knows libraries. In 19 years since joining Harvard University he has worked on hundreds of projects, including a five-year renovation of Widener Library and the redesign of Lamont’s…

The Arnold Arboretum’s 281-acre landscape is a living museum, displaying plants sourced from all corners of the temperate world for conservation and study. To expand and refine these collections, staff…

More than two decades ago, Uche Amazigo came to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) from Nigeria to spend a year as a fellow in the Takemi Program in…

Chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, are the leading cause of death worldwide, with the burden falling heaviest in low- and middle-income countries. A new article by Harvard…

Construction workers are frequently stressed about work-related injuries and pain and often fail to seek help, putting themselves at risk for more injuries and mental health issues, including depression, anxiety,…

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has named social entrepreneur Sasha Chanoff this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman International Activist Award for his tireless work as founder and…

The thousands of trees, shrubs, and vines that visitors encounter at the Arnold Arboretum exemplify the abundant diversity of Earth’s woody plants as well as the many adaptive strategies they…

Jonathan Lavine, M.B.A. ’92, co-chair of the Campaign for Harvard School of Public Health, last night announced the School’s intention to raise $450 million by 2018. The announcement marked the…

The recent launch of the Healthcare.org website, the online portal for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has been riddled with technical glitches and delays, frustrating users and insurers, and prompting…

The Arab Spring, which raised hopes for a wave of democratic reforms throughout the Middle East, has so far led to regime change in only four countries—Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and…

Caroline Buckee, assistant professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), was hailed as one of 10 “visionaries whose ideas…

For the third consecutive year, the commonwealth’s major blindness organizations are sponsoring a unique job fair at the Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study. The 2013 Job Fair for Individuals with…

The Shorenstein Center welcomed Betsy Fischer Martin, managing editor of NBC News Political Programming and former senior executive producer of “Meet the Press,” to share her thoughts on the changing media…

Two Harvard School of Public Health faculty members from the Department of Health Policy and Management — Ashish Jha and Michelle Mello — have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). They…

Active camouflage has taken a step forward at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), with a new coating that intrinsically conceals its own temperature to thermal cameras.…

In the spirit of Veterans Day, Harvard Undergraduates Honoring Veterans (HUHV) will be hosting its first-ever charity benefit, Standing Tall for Veterans, on Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. in Lecture…

Political rallies stir passions, but do they impact the results at the ballot box and ultimately on policy choices? Those are the questions underlying a new research paper co-authored by…

Now that the government shutdown is over and the Affordable Care Act has taken effect, how can and should policymakers judge the effectiveness of the new program? That is the…

The brainchild of a Harvard Kennedy School executive session provided the basis for new legislation recently introduced in the Senate. Jeff Katz MC/MPA 2000 and Listening to Parents, the organization…