The current Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Libyan Mohammed Nabbous, founder of Libya Alhurra TV, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and…

Kip Tiernan BI ’89, founder of Rosie’s Place and the Greater Boston Food Bank and co-founder of Community Works and the Poor People’s United Fund, gave her papers to the…

When Lucas Scanlon, MC/MPA 2012 candidate, arrived at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) this fall, he didn’t expect to find many sympathizers. A Tea Party activist from Texas, Scanlon anticipated staunch…

We’ve got over 70 events on offer to help you learn essential research skills, prepare for your career, make new connections, or just relax and have some fun. GSAS students…

Smoke was in the room, but it wasn’t car exhaust. No, that function of the former Citgo gas station at 182 Western Ave. is officially gone. Stone Hearth Pizza Co.…

The Cultural Survival Bazaar (CSB), a festival of Native arts and culture from around the world, will be held from 
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 3-4 at Harvard’s Northwest…

Campus Services Transportation would like the Harvard community of faculty, students, and staff to be aware of the following change to MBTA Red Line weekend service. MBTA Replacing Weekend Train…

Although more than half of all new cancers and two-thirds of annual cancer deaths worldwide occur in low- and middle-income countries, with the cancer burden disproportionately affecting the poor, a…

Always have a goal and know where you are headed, Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Harvard School of Public Health…

With the continuing trend toward ever-more “natural” diets, the raw milk debate has gathered steam, including here in Massachusetts where lawmakers have been considering legislation to loosen restrictions on selling…

Graduate students with aspirations for public service are more inclined to follow their dreams when they have opportunities to connect their coursework with the world of practice. That is the…

At the renowned Harvard Faculty Club the latest guest amenity comes in the form of an elegant clear glass bottle. For more than a month, Faculty Club employees have been…

Fissures in the Eurozone are bubbling over as the Greek government stumbles to come to grips with a new loan deal with the European Union. And troubles in Greece may…

On Tuesday, Oct. 25th Earthwatch — an international nonprofit environmental organization — held its first community lecture in a new fall series hosted at its headquarters. The fall lecture series…

The Harvard Graduate School of Design will present the 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Festival, Nov. 7-8. The festival is a joint presentation of the Loeb Fellowship and the Department…

Computer scientists at Harvard, Boston University, and Yale stumbled upon a privacy leak in the mobile version of the popular Yelp social networking review site (m.yelp.com) in late October. In…

Even as a young child, growing up in Guanajuato, Mexico, Edgar Barroso remembers being fascinated by the possibility of creating something meaningful out of sound. Over the course of the…

Mark Zuckerberg will visit Harvard Monday to recruit students for jobs and internships at Facebook, the University announced today. Zuckerberg, along with Facebook Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer, will…

The Vampire in Film & Literature “The vampire story has been used by authors and filmmakers alike as an encoded way of talking about a lot of things besides vampirism,”…

Washington, DC—Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world’s cultural heritage available to a large part…

Washington, DC—The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund today announced a major contribution for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in the form of combined $5 million in funding. The…

Laura Salah Nasrallah, professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), has received funding from the Battelle Memorial Institute to organize a symposium. Scholars of diverse…

The Graduate School is pleased to announce that for the third year running, it will curate a flexible January series of seminars, workshops, and social opportunities, on January 9-20, 2012,…

The Office of Career Services and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are offering a number of don’t-miss events this year as part of their ongoing Becoming Faculty career series. These…

To honor the University’s dynamic history, the Harvard University Archives has mounted an extensive 375th anniversary exhibition entitled “A Transcendent Vitality.” Through this seven-month, commemorative exhibition in Pusey Library, the…

“Times have never been tougher or bleaker,” said Peter Hart, chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, at an event sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and Institute of Politics. After…

For Jeanne Gang, who was just awarded one of the twenty-two $500,000 no-strings-attached MacArthur Fellowships, her time as a student and (last semester) as a studio critic at Harvard’s Graduate…

Harvard University and The University of Texas at Austin have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop open-access research-based tools for advancing learning in science…

Two astronomers who received their Ph.D.s from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were named today as among the three winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for…

This past Monday morning (Oct. 3), the giraffe and okapi were safely back behind glass after spending a couple weeks released from ‘captivity’ in the museum’s Great Mammal Hall for…