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Young scientists awarded $719,701 in grants 27 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
Marking its 27th year of bestowing transformative research grants on young scientists, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly known as NARSAD, or the National Alliance for Research on Schi...
The dream, 50 years later 27 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
Thousands of onlookers will join President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington and celebrate a powerful, poetic moment in the Ci...
Boxes, bins, and bedding 27 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
After a summer slumber, Harvard Yard began to come alive again as the Class of 2017 arrived on campus this morning. Cars, vans, and trucks snaked through the Yard as freshmen, along with their parent...
Eat, play, sleep 23 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Sleep. Eat three meals a day. Get outside the “Harvard bubble.” Try new things. And remember, professors are people too. Sounds easy enough, right? As the Class of ’17 heads for campus on move-in day...
Popsicle Earth 22 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
At the height of the last ice age, the Earth was dramatically more covered with ice than scientists previously believed, and while much of that ice has melted, Harvard researchers say relatively littl...
Old Quincy, suddenly new 22 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy House is ready to welcome back students for the 2013-14 academic year. A first look at the recently completed “test project” in the House re...
Light, bright, and modern 22 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
Swiss-born designer Le Corbusier was sitting in his Paris studio on April 7, 1960. In front of him was a sheet of onionskin paper a yard wide and long. In rapid strokes, using crayon for color, he ske...
Removing indoor pollution 21 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
While studying climate change in the rural Himalayas, Catlin Powers was asked an eye-opening question by one local family: Why are all of these scientists coming here to study outdoor air pollution wh...
Ideas to build on 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Earlier this year, landscape architecture students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) did fieldwork in New York’s Jamaica Bay, a marshy estuary on the southwest coast of Long Island. Littl...
David K. Smith, former dean of Radcliffe admissions, 77 20 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
David K. “Deke” Smith of Topsham, Maine, died Aug. 14 at the age of 77, following a brief battle with cancer. Smith was born in Rochester, N.Y., and after graduating from Harvard College in 1958, he ...
