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A red brick building featuring a large white door with an arched window, flanked by lamps.

Judge Dismisses Case Demanding Harvard Admissions Data

The government failed to meet procedural requirements before suing the University.

by Jonathan Shaw

Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on healthcare, and more

Our roundup also includes a New Yorker profile of U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan and a review of the work of architect Jeanne Gang, both Harvard graduates.

Derrick Ashong in the radio studio

Derrick Ashong hosts a new show on Oprah Radio

Derrick Ashong ’97 hosts a new show on Oprah Radio.

Amy Wagers Discovers a Regenerative Pathway in Blood

Aged blood stem cells in mice act young again when exposed to the circulation of a young mouse.

Members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals honored Anne Hathaway with a parade during her January 28 visit to Harvard.

Timberlake and Hathaway snag Pudding pots, Carlos Slim gift, IRS audit, and more

UPDATED. Our roundup also includes news of a gift from Carlos Slim, a favorable ranking of Harvard's value among colleges, and an audit by the IRS.

At the Center for Geographic Analysis office, the Harvard-MIT Data Center's Eric Alderman examines a map of Port-au-Prince with Jean-Lucien Ligonde, a businessman in the Boston Haitian community, in preparation for sending the map to Haiti to be used in relief work.

Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis Hosts Haiti Map Portal

The Center for Geographic Analysis has created an online portal and sent up-to-date high-resolution wall maps with a delegation traveling to the earthquake-stricken country.

Harvard College applications top 30,000

Preliminary results show a record of more than 30,000 applicants.

Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.

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