Tag: Defense Department

  • Nation & World

    Harvard further expands financial aid to ease access

    Harvard College has offered regular admission to 1,220 applicants for the Class of 2027, with 1,942 admitted in total, including those selected in the early action process.

    5 minutes
    Hollis Hall and Stoughton Hall.
  • Nation & World

    The goal: New arms

    Will Lautzenheiser, a former Boston University film professor who lost his arms and legs from an infection, has been cleared by the Institutional Review Board at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a double arm transplant, a complex procedure requiring 12 to 16 hours of work by a team of surgeons.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How to sidestep sequestration

    Gazette staff writer Colleen Walsh spoke with budgeting expert Linda J. Bilmes, a Harvard Kennedy School senior lecturer in public policy, about the looming government sequestration, and some possible ways to avoid it in future.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cutting the military’s energy tether

    Fueling America’s war effort is an expensive proposition, costing not only money but lives, since supply convoys are routinely attacked. The constraints imposed by an energy-hungry military prompted the Defense Department to investigate conservation techniques.

    5 minutes