The Arab Summer follows the Arab Spring: Join us for this Harvard summer lecture series, starting on July 13. The Middle East and Islam Summer Series is a collaboration of…

Tracing the cultural, political and demographic roots of audience disengagement and mistrust of the media, Bob Calo examines the role of journalists in a new paper, Disengaged: Elite Media in…

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the 2011–2012 Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows. Supported by a generous gift from the Stanton Foundation, the…

The global economy last year spent an estimated $300 billion on newly diagnosed cancer cases, $400 billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and billions more on diabetes, heart disease,…

A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco, researchers suggests that men with prostate cancer who smoke increase their risk of prostate…

Watching television is the most common daily activity apart from work and sleep in many parts of the world, but it is time for people to change their viewing habits.…

A group of physicians and patient safety experts, including HSPH’s Lucian Leape, adjunct professor of health policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, have written a report that…

Kamiar Alaei, who received a master of science degree from HSPH in 2007, thanked David Bloom, chair, Department of Global Health and Population at HSPH, and the Physicians for Human…

By applying a coating to individual silicon nanowires, researchers at Harvard and Berkeley have significantly improved the materials’ efficiency and sensitivity. The findings, published in the May 20, 2011, issue…

A new professional development grant named in honor of Jan Merrill-Oldham has recently been approved by the Association of Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) and Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS)…

Harvard University Hospitality & Dining Services’ (HUHDS) chefs took first place and prestigious American Culinary Federation (ACF) gold medals at the 17th Annual Chef Culinary Conference in Amherst, Mass., on…

Social media might prove critical in the electoral success of women political candidates, but is a “mixed blessing,” according to a new discussion paper, Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the…

Beginning in fall 2011, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) will offer a secondary field in computational science and engineering (CSE) to graduate students across the Harvard…

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has named Harvard Professors Joanna Aizenberg, Leah Price, and Robert Sampson as faculty program directors of Academic Ventures. Together, these distinguished…

Inspired by one of the most talked-about Harvard College courses in recent history, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” the Science & Cooking public…

Vivek Kundra, the U.S. chief information officer at the White House for the past two and a half years, will serve a joint fellowship this fall at Harvard University. Kundra…

Though it explores the myriad techniques – from cartouches to vignettes, figural borders, and frontispieces – that cartographers have employed for centuries to encode messages into maps, “Going for Baroque:…

A.C. Thompson, a staff reporter for ProPublica whose work frequently exposes social injustice and the abuse of power, is winner of the 2011 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. The…

Michael J. Sandel has been named the “most influential” foreign figure of the year in China.  The Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government was given the award…

Over the past decade, an increasing number of families in India appear to be aborting their second child if prenatal tests indicate the child is female, presumably to ensure that…

“There are two important things in my life,” said Isabelle Valadian, M.P.H. ’53, “my parents and my life at the Harvard School of Public Health [HSPH].” To honor both, Isa…

Thirty years after the first official reports about HIV/AIDS, we look back on the human devastation and forward to a changed social landscape. The infection has killed more people so…

As of today, Harvard’s new Borrow Direct service enables the University’s faculty, staff, and students to borrow books and other circulating library materials that are not available at Harvard from…

Elif Yamangil, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded the 2011 Google Fellowship in Natural Language Processing. Yamangil,…

Jim Waldo, currently Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been named as the University’s Chief Technology…

Martha Heitzmann, Ph.D. ’97, is the senior executive vice president of research and innovation at Areva Group, a French energy company that specializes in nuclear power. She describes herself as…

Media organizations may be able to perform their watchdog roles more effectively working together than apart. That is one conclusion in a new paper, “Partners of Necessity: The Case for…

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the appointment of Professor Jonathan Zittrain as the agency’s Distinguished Scholar. He will be based in the Office of Strategic Planning & Policy…

When she retires from her post as the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College next month, efforts to sum up the career of Nancy Cline will invariably point to…

Thanks to a generous donation from Bruce McEver, M.T.S. ’11, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) announces a new initiative, the Religious Literacy Project (RLP), which will enable HDS to continue our…