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What a Key EPA Repeal Means for America’s Climate Future

A Harvard alumni panel examines the impact of the “Endangerment Finding.”

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard library restructuring presages smaller workforce

Library leaders tell staff that restructuring will require smaller workforce.

Raj Chetty and colleagues release controversial “value-added” education study

Study finds good teaching leads to lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation.

Harvard Business School survey weaker U.S. economic competitiveness

Harvard Business School issues sober survey on U.S. competitiveness.

Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association Director Elections

Results of the election will be announced at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 24.

Pathbreaking Harvard neonatologist Mary Ellen Avery dies

Her work saved countless premature babies and inspired other women in medicine.

Protein providing health benefits of exercise discovered by Harvard researchers

Harvard researchers discover a protein that provides health benefits similar to exercise, including weight loss and improved blood-sugar control.

New York Times reviews Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williams book on the Tea Party

A new book by Harvard scholars Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson attracts attention as the presidential primary season begins.

Margaret Marshall to rejoin Choate, Hall & Stewart and Harvard Law School

The former Massachusetts chief justice will serve as senior counsel for Choate, Hall & Stewart.

A New York Times story reveals how Harvard shaped Mitt Romney

A New York Times story asks how the experience shaped the presidential candidate.

Harvard Rhodes Scholars from South Africa and Canada swell 2012 total to six

Scholars from Canada and South Africa boost Harvard's 2012 Rhodes class to half a dozen.