Vinothan N. Manoharan, associate professor of chemical engineering and physics in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of Physics, has been awarded a prestigious Sloan…

Frank Rich, op-ed page columnist for The New York Times, will address an audience of students, faculty, journalists, and members of the public on Monday, March 7, at the John…

The critical role played by moderate voters and lawmakers in American political life is the focus of a new report co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer Elaine Kamarck. “The Still-Vital…

The Harvard Office for Sustainability is once again rolling out the Green Carpet in honor of the many students, faculty, and staff across Harvard who have made significant contributions to…

The Harvard Square Farmers Market is gearing up for another season. This year, the market will open at noon Tuesdays beginning June 14. Starting in March, the Cape Ann Fresh…

The Argus Leader in Sioux Falls has won the 2010 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers with “Growing Up Indian,” an eight-part series that examines the daunting challenges faced…

Last fall, a new special collections request system was introduced to Harvard College Library (HCL) with lofty goals and the promise of creating a better experience for both users and…

Debra Auguste, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has won a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation…

C. Conrad Wright, Professor of American Church History Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), died peacefully at home in his sleep on Feb. 17, 2011, at the age of 94.…

Shriram Ramanathan has won the 2011 Robert Lansing Hardy Award on behalf of the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). The associate professor of materials science at the Harvard…

The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) today (Feb. 17) named as interim executive director David W. Ellis. Ellis is the former president of Lafayette College and the Museum of…

A stunning photograph of a centipede-inspired robot (called a centipede millibot) developed by Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) graduate student Katie Hoffman and faculty member Robert Wood…

The 23rd Brendan Gill Prize was awarded to Michael Van Valkenburgh, Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, by the Municipal Art Society of New York. Recently opened to…

HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe declined by nearly half over the course of a decade (from 29 percent estimated adult prevalence in 1997 to 16 percent in 2007). HSPH’s Daniel Halperin…

New findings reported in The New England Journal of Medicine suggest that vaccinating young men against human papillomavirus (HPV), which cause the majority of cervical and anal cancers and a…

A new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers shows bicycle riders have fewer injuries when they ride on cycle tracks — physically separated bicycle-exclusive paths along…

A Harvard Kennedy School fellow argues that Turkey offers a promising model for Egypt as the dust begins to settle from the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, and the…

Ahmed Ragab, physician, historian, and scholar of the medieval and modern Middle East, has been named the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School,…

Join Vi Hart, self-proclaimed recreational mathematician, for an afternoon of fun on Feb. 18 from 3 to 4 p.m. in the lobby of the Maxwell Dworkin Building at the Harvard…

The Harvard community has responded with insight and imagination to a call from the University’s Library Lab to collaborate with the Harvard Library and “to serve as co-creators of the…

Where can one hear the ideas of a Pulitzer Prize winner, a member of the Time 100, a world expert on Egypt’s current upheaval, and the authors of numerous best-selling…

For music scholars conducting research online, there is a dizzying array of resources that are literally at their fingertips. The challenge is in determining which to use. To help make…

Harvard’s Office for Sustainability (OFS) is reaching out to students from a variety of backgrounds — everyone from visual artists to musicians to staunch environmental advocates — to involve them…

Three winners of the Goldsmith Book Prize and six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and…

The Egyptian political system is in turmoil, with demonstrators calling for change and the government of President Hosni Mubarak trying to maintain control. As events continue to unfold, Harvard Kennedy…

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is pleased to announce its Spring 2011 Askwith Forums, a series of public lectures dedicated to discussing challenges facing education, sharing new knowledge,…

Accountable care organizations (ACOs), legal partnerships between doctors and hospitals that provide financial incentives to providers for more efficient and better care, will be part of Medicare by 2012 and…

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Massachusetts’ second and third largest health plans, are exploring a merger that would help them to compete against market leader Blue Cross…

Undergraduates were treated to a lively discussion of life beyond Harvard this week. Five young SEAS alumni returned to campus on Jan. 31 to participate in the first of a…

The Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association (HCSSA) presented an all-Ivy League evening gala to a capacity audience at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 29 to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New…