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  • Science & Tech

    ‘Settle down,’ warns E.O. Wilson

    Esteemed biologist Edward O. Wilson called for renewed efforts to understand and conserve the planet’s biodiversity, in the first of three Prather Lectures being presented this week.

  • Health

    Electronic medical records not a panacea?

    The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, Harvard researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) report finding that currently implemented systems have little effect on measures such as patient…

  • Science & Tech

    Understanding tiny reactions

    Scientists believe that tiny carbon nanotubes may also create something like atomic-scale black holes.

  • Health

    Childhood cancer survivors may face shortened lifespan, study reveals

    Although more children today are surviving cancer than ever before, young patients successfully treated in the 1970s and 80s may live a decade less, on average, than the general population, according to a study by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. Depending on the type of cancer, the…

  • Campus & Community

    Special notice regarding Commencement Exercises

    A special notice regarding Commencement Exercises for those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises offers guidelines for the May 27 event.

  • Arts & Culture

    Looking at ‘Invisible Cities’

    Harvard students, in an eclectic art show, travel to real and imagined “Invisible Cities,” which simmer beneath the surface of the real.

  • Science & Tech

    Kicking the habit

    Clean, renewable wind and solar power may be the most-preferred fossil fuel alternatives, but their land-hungry collecting requirements make them difficult options for replacing more conventional power sources, according to a British energy expert. David MacKay, chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom’s Department of Energy and Climate Change and a professor of natural philosophy in the Department of Physics at…

  • Science & Tech

    An addiction to fossil fuels

    David MacKay, physics professor at Cambridge University and scientific adviser to the United Kingdom’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, outlines challenges facing efforts to eliminate fossil fuels from the world’s energy mix.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard College, MIT launch pilot program

    Harvard College and MIT start pilot program that allows undergraduates at each school to access each other’s libraries.

  • Campus & Community

    Bill Gates to speak at Sanders

    Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates will visit Harvard April 21 and will speak about the importance of giving back to the community.

  • Campus & Community

    In last semester, ‘Last Lectures’

    As a prelude to graduation, seniors organize a “Last Lecture” series to receive advice from favorite professors.

  • Health

    Killer mushrooms!

    It is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of emperors. In parts of California’s forests, it is everywhere. It is the deathcap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, so filled with toxins that a single cap can kill anyone who mistakenly eats it and does not get medical treatment. Because it looks like an edible mushroom,…

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Walden’ for the 21st century

    In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.

  • Campus & Community

    From Homeless to Harvard

    Everyone has baggage, but Lalita Booth’s is heavier than most.

  • Science & Tech

    Posing the Big Questions

    In 1900, renowned mathematician David Hilbert laid down a challenge to future generations: 23 handpicked mathematical problems, all difficult, all important, and all unsolved. Since then, countless mathematicians around the world have struggled to solve the 23 “Hilbert Problems.” To date, 10 have been fully solved, 11 are partly solved or simply cannot be solved, and two remain at large…

  • Health

    Treatment resistance in some cancer cells may be reversible

    The ability of cancer cells to resist treatment with either targeted drug therapies or traditional chemotherapy may, in some cases, result from a transient state of reversible drug “tolerance.”  In a paper that will appear in the journal Cell and is being released early online, Harvard researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center…

  • Campus & Community

    Helping outside the classroom

    HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.

  • Campus & Community

    Reflecting on a young life

    A freshman reflects on an eye-opening seminar session, designed to prompt Harvard undergrads to step back from the striving and ponder what life means to them, and what they value.

  • Campus & Community

    Behind the blue

    Harvard’s two new deputy police chiefs discuss their transitions, and what everyday life is like covering the University.

  • Campus & Community

    The greening of the Law School

    Harvard Law School moves aggressively to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.

  • Health

    A ‘mind-blowing’ day

    Vermont high school students explore the human brain, with help from Harvard scholars.

  • Health

    Understanding the deadly deathcap

    Biology Professor Anne Pringle is taking the study of one of the world’s most poisonous mushrooms out of the realm of adventure stories and into the world of ecology, in an attempt to better understand how it spreads.

  • Campus & Community

    The tale of the two-sport athlete

    This season, soccer’s Melanie Baskind ’12 makes her return to lacrosse — and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

  • Campus & Community

    Taking finance up the Red Line

    Stephen Blyth, managing director of the Harvard Management Company, doubles as a faculty member in the Statistics Department, bringing real-world financial acumen to studying numbers.

  • Nation & World

    Six from Harvard awarded fellowships for Australian research

    The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation recently awarded fellowships to six Harvard researchers who intend to undertake collaborative scientific research in Australia in 2010.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    A collaboration by the Foundation Alícia (Alimentació i Ciència), headed by chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli fame, and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has led to the creation of an undergraduate course on science and cooking. Debuting next fall, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft…

  • Campus & Community

    Clooney named 2010-11 Luce Fellow

    The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation have named Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2010-11.

  • Campus & Community

    Social change at ground level

    Scott Ruescher’s interest in Latin America spawned a lengthy career in volunteer work — not to mention, he’s also a poet.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS faculty win McKinsey Awards

    Three Harvard Business School professors, Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice; and Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, were recently honored with 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm…