GSAS is ready to help students tackle their top new year’s resolution, and has prepared a robust month of professional development offerings, courtesy of the Office of Career Services and…

A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for…

“Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t make a difference in public service,” former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis told an audience of HSPH students. Dukakis came to HSPH on…

Three GSAS students — Nataly Moran Cabili (PhD candidate in systems biology), Mehmet Fisek (PhD candidate in neuroscience), and Le Cong (PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences) — are among the 48…

New city leaders with Harvard ties Michael Brennan (Portland, Maine), Peter Buttigieg (South Bend, Ind.), Angel Taveras (Providence, R.I.), and Karen Freeman-Wilson (Gary, Ind.) are joining more than 20 other…

When the former prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, asked Richard Parker to serve as special economic adviser in 2009, Parker couldn’t refuse. A friend of the Papandreou family since the…

Harvard Kennedy School is well represented on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers 2011. Professors Edward Glaeser, Lant Pritchett, and Joseph Nye are included, along with alumni Andrew Sullivan, M.C./M.P.A.…

From targeted cancer chemotherapy to the guarantee of successful organ transplants, the 21st century may prove to be the age of big ideas in medicine. The drugs themselves, though, will…

The President’s Office announced today the 2012 grant recipients for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty. The fund was created in 2010 to support Harvard faculty in the development…

Friends of Henry Hubschman, HLS 1972 M.P.P. 1973, have set up a fellowship in his memory at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Law School (HLS). Established shortly after Hubschman’s…

Over the weekend, Harvard students, guided by Eric Chivian ’64, M.D. ’68, moved three heirloom apple saplings from the Harvard Community Garden to a permanent spot on campus, just behind…

Graduate students may seek mental health services for any number of reasons — for all the reasons that anyone else would seek help. But the demands of a PhD program…

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…