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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

Shared Interest Group events

News from Shared Interest Groups

Hard-skating brothers Danny, Alex, and Michael Biega (left to right) spray ice chips at Bright Hockey Center.

Three Biega brothers play ice hockey at Harvard

Alex, Mike, and Danny Biega, a talented trio of brothers, play ice hockey for Harvard.

by Craig Lambert

If it were not for an elegant design, your DNA might be a tangle of crossed lines and knots. Graduate student Erez Lieberman-Aiden was part of a team that discovered how the genome packs information accessibly into a tiny ball of hierarchical folds.

Genomic architecture

Harvard and UMass researchers elucidate DNA's ability to file data and fit into the nucleus.

by Courtney Humphries

At the Merkers salt mines in central Germany, American GIs admire Édouard Manet’s <em>In the Conservatory,</em> one of the thousands of rare works and documents stored there by the Nazi regime late in World War II. Monuments Man George Stout (see next image), a Fogg Museum conservator turned U.S. Army lieutenant, supervised the rescue of 40 tons of art from the site in April 1945.

The Monuments Men: Rescuing art from the Nazis

Harvard’s Monuments Men at war

Work-life balance hard on women in finance

Research on work-life balance casts the financial sector in a harsh light.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Panelists at the tenth-anniversary symposium discuss how their time as Radcliffe Fellows helped them bridge boundaries between genres. From left to right: English professor Leah Price, painter Beverly McIver, filmmaker Jeanne Jordan, composer Tarik O’Regan, filmmaker Anne Makepeace, and lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study tenth anniversary

Harvard’s former sister college celebrates its first decade as an institute for advanced study.

Undergraduates and "great books"

Harvard undergraduates and the "great books" puzzle

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Carl Kassel (left), announcer for National Public Radio’s weekly <em>Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!</em> clowns with its host, Peter Sagal.

The Harvard radio wits of NPR’s “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”

Three Harvard graduates help create the weekly humor of NPR’s Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!

by Craig Lambert

Outside the Caspersen Room at the Harvard Law School Library: Ess Librarian and professor of law John G. Palfrey VII with University Library director and Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton.

Harvard libraries under pressure

The University's financial crisis is exacerbating existing problems in expanding, coordinating, and technologically improving the collections.

Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese

Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.

by Elizabeth Gudrais