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New U.S. citizen Ana Umana (left) is congratulated by President Drew Faust. Lars Madsen, (center) became a U.S. citizen last year. Both he and Faust spoke during the Harvard Bridge Program's Annual Citizenship Celebration Dinner. "[R]emember how precious your citizenship really is, and use it," said Faust. "Take up not just its privileges, but also its responsibilities."

Celebrating citizenship

Dinner honors 14 Harvard employees who worked to become Americans

Campus|

DateApril 14, 2017

British Prime Minister David Cameron is at the forefront of a debate that has led to this month's referendum on whether the United Kingdom should retain its membership in the European Union.

Britain muses: Play bridge or solitaire?

U.K. may vote shortly to quit European Union, with cascading economic and political effects

World|

DateJune 17, 2016March 7, 2019

Anthony Saich, who serves as faculty chair of Harvard Kennedy School’s China program, said the positive assessment the Chinese have of Xi’s performance — both at home and abroad — is explained by a multitude of factors. “One is that they don’t hear much negative news about their national government; it’s all positive,” he explained.

Grading 10 top world leaders

China’s Xi and Germany’s Merkel best-rated in rare international survey

World|

DateDecember 17, 2014March 15, 2019

Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a native of Glasgow, says the recent surge in support for Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom is due to the Scottish National Party's well-run campaign.

A union scotched?

Niall Ferguson gives his take on what’s at stake as Scotland weighs independence

World|

DateSeptember 16, 2014June 5, 2019

To understand how molecular motors work, some researchers are creating animations. Here, each “leg” of a molecular motor called dynein moves as it progresses along a cellular structure called a microtubule. New data suggest that dynein’s walk is even stranger than the one modeled. View its movement in action (below).

Struttin’ its stuff

Harvard researchers find the molecular motor that keeps us on right track

Health|

DateJanuary 10, 2012March 12, 2019

George Morara, a program officer with the Kenya Human Rights Commission, credits Harvard Professor Caroline Elkins' scholarship and voluminous oral histories as the primary evidence for Mau Mau justice. “Without her seminal work,” he said, “this story wouldn’t have come to the fore.”

Justice for Kenya’s Mau Mau

Historian helps make the case that aged veterans deserve justice

World|

DateSeptember 1, 2011May 6, 2019