Physics graduate students Erik Bauch and Georg Kucsko have developed an online tool, Open Rev., for collaborative annotation of scientific publications. Open Rev. enables open discussion about scholarly works, independent…

Graduate School of Design alumna Amale Andraos has been appointed dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). An associate professor at GSAPP and a principal…

The Harvard University Archives and Schlesinger Library opened their doors to a display of food-related items. While recipes abounded, a few items took the cake, including Julia Child’s Emmy award,…

The Judaica Division’s latest publication — “Harvard Judaica in the 21st Century” by Charles Berlin — was recently published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Division. In 1962 the Division was…

Tozzer Library returned to an entirely rebuilt and redesigned space following two years in temporary quarters. The original Tozzer Library building  was almost completely demolished and rebuilt and enlarged to…

A film by pioneering director Robert J. Flaherty — which film historians believed to have been lost — was rediscovered at Harvard’s Houghton Library. The short film “Oidhche Sheanchais” (“A Night…

Today, more people than ever have health insurance. In the U.S., millions have signed up for coverage since the 2008 passage of the Affordable Care Act. Globally, there’s a high level of…

In St. Louis, Missouri, Delmar Boulevard marks a sharp dividing line between the poor, predominately African American neighborhood to the north and a more affluent, largely white neighborhood to the…

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, awarded 16 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its May 2014 Fellowship Award Committee meeting,…

The American Philosophical Society (APS) recently elected 28 new members, including three Harvard faculty members: Richard J. Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper…

Ana Langer, director of the Women and Health Initiative and Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at Harvard School of Public Health, says that new findings from an international study on fetal growth and birth length debunk…

In many cases, when you bring a room full of pre-teens together, in the summer, to talk about math and science – you don’t hear squeals of excitement. But then…

A team of engineers at theHarvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Cambridge, Mass., and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a truly portable…

James R. Rice, Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been selected…

Campus Services and Harvard University Housing recently announced the appointment of Professor Christopher Winship and his wife, Nancy K. Winship, as the newest faculty directors within the Graduate Commons Program.…

HarvardX is offering a host of new and returning open online courses this fall. Visualizing Japan (9/3) A first-time MITx/HarvardX collaboration, VJx opens windows on Japan’s transition into the modern world…

The Roma in Europe are increasingly subject to racism, social exclusion, trafficking, and violence, in spite of efforts by European Union institutions to uphold Roma human rights, according to a new article by researchers…

Evelynn M. Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard, has been appointed by President Obama to the…

A new paper by Jill Dougherty, Spring 2014 Fellow and former CNN Moscow bureau chief, traces the shift in Russia’s ideology and its effect on media coverage of the Ukraine conflict. In the…

People who eat a lot of fried foods may have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, according to a large, long-term study. Led by Leah Cahill, research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at…

Selling the public on the insurance requirement in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — making sure people are aware of the opportunities and helping them find a plan — has proven to…

Children affected by HIV — those who live with HIV-positive caregivers or who are orphaned by AIDS — experience anxiety and depression at levels that are similar to children who actually have HIV,…

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study today announced the 35 grant recipients for 2014. The Schlesinger Library, part of the…

A new online visualization tool designed to help users see connections between faculty, academic programs, and research and teaching areas has been deployed on the Harvard School of Engineering and…

Tamil Kendall, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoctoral researcher with the Women and Health Initiative and a Takemi Fellow in HSPH’s Department of Global Health and Population, is an expert in gender and HIV in Latin America who worked in…

A survey of over 400 transgender Massachusetts residents found that nearly two-thirds had experienced discrimination over the past year in public places, ranging from hotels, stores, restaurants, and theaters to health clinics,…

In May 2012, Ralph Lieberman began photographing Harvard’s architecture ― from bicycle racks to library stacks ― for a project commissioned by Harvard College Library’s Fine Arts Library (FAL) and the Graduate School of…

Residents of low-income housing appear to get a boost in health from living in “green” buildings that are built with eco-friendly materials and energy-efficient features, according to a Harvard School of Public…

The Department of Biostatistics will host Pipelines into Biostatistics, its first Annual Symposium dedicated to increasing the presence of underrepresented groups in biostatistics and quantitative public health through formal training,…

This fall the Harvard Library will deploy the Copyright First Responders (CFRs) — a pilot program being developed as a resource for anyone at Harvard struggling with copyright issues. The program was…