Gerald L. Neuman, co-director of the Human Rights Program (HRP), and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, discussed HRP’s upcoming conference,…

Couples in supportive marriages appear less likely to gain weight and become obese in middle age, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Researchers…

Harvard University will welcome Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on April 10 to deliver the lecture, “Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec Temple,” at 6 p.m., at…

Susan Murphy, professor of statistics and computer science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, will receive a Luminary Award at the Precision Medicine 2018 World Conference for her…

With speakers ranging from an environmental activist to a former Secretary of the U.S. Navy, the Advanced Leadership Initiative’s (ALI) Climate Change Deep Dive presented a multi-faceted look at the…

Staff, faculty, and academic appointees reaching key milestones in their service at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health were honored at the 19th annual “Celebration with the Stars” on Feb. 28…

Grab your sneakers on Friday, March 23 and join the Harvard community for a University-wide fun run. This free, untimed 5K will do three loops around historic Harvard Yard and…

The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School has been awarded to Nina Martin of ProPublica and Renee Montagne of NPR…

Exposure to diesel exhaust on the job appears to raise the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurodegenerative disease, according to Aisha Dickerson, a Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow at…

Two recent renovation projects by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Extavour Laboratory and the Science Center – Cabot Library Projects, mark the next phase in Harvard’s commitment to green…

They’re known as roadrunners. The scrawny, indigenous chickens of Ethiopia produce a tough meat that’s delicious when slow-cooked in a spicy stew called doro wat — but their meat doesn’t…

David Liu presents two CRISPR upgrades: A cellular detective and sharper scissors David Liu earned the title “Gene Corrector” for good reason. A professor of chemistry and chemical biology at…

Have you ever wanted to make a career change, gain a skill, or just learn something new? On March 1, a group of community members gathered at the Harvard Ed…

In Harvard’s Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab, high school students from Cambridge Housing Authority’s (CHA) The Work Force Program, enthusiastically volunteered to learn about brain research by testing an MRI…

Boston Celtics‘ Jaylen Brown will visit the Askwith Forums on March 1, to discuss education, race, and institutionalized sport, and how athletes can use their public voices to advocate for…

Energy fuels innovation and Harvard’s growing innovation corridor in Allston is going to need an energy system as advanced as the cutting-edge research being conducted up and down Western Avenue.…

The collected papers of Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer (1926-2012), the prominent economist, monetary policy expert, Federal Reserve governor, professor, advisor, and consultant, are now part of the permanent Special Collections…

In the days following last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, classmates of the murdered students have emerged as vocal advocates for preventing gun violence.…

Principals today increasingly have multi-dimensional roles — so much so that the role of the principal might be unrecognizable to those from the 1960s, ’70s, or ’80s, as the Center for…

Drivers who take their eyes off the road to use a wireless device, or indulge another distraction such as eating or putting on makeup, cause almost 3,500 deaths and 400,000…

Daniel Kahne discovers how Gram-negative bacteria build resistance to antibiotics In the late 1800s, bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram discovered a way to classify bacteria, most of which fall into one of…