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Lecturer Swanee Hunt moderated the fifteenth annual Institute for Inclusive Security Colloquium panel discussion this week at the Kennedy School.

A Harvard Kennedy School forum considers women and their role in world peace.

An HKS forum considers women and their role in world peace.

The mummy of Padihershef rests next to its coffin in the Massachusetts General Hospital's Ether Dome.

Massachusetts General Hospital's resident mummy undergoes restoration and study

MGH's resident mummy undergoes restoration and a medical exam.

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock Is Harvard’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry

The jazz pianist will give six lectures in February and March.

Four Harvard hockey players on the U.S. women's 2014 Winter Olympic team

Four Harvard players have made the U.S. Olympic ice hockey team bound for Sochi, Russia.

Daniel K. Ludwig (1897-1992)

Daniel K. Ludwig Bequest Endows Study of Cancer's Resistance to Therapy

The Ludwig Cancer Research gift endows the study of resistance to therapy.

A recent alumnus reflects on grade inflation at Harvard College

Harvard, grading, and taking the training wheels off

by Michael Zuckerman

Michael Zuckerman

Harvard alumni reflect on their Teach for America experiences

Recent Teach for American alumni share reflections on the controversial program.

by Michael Zuckerman

According to an affidavit filed with the U.S. district attorney, Kim told authorities he was “motivated by a desire to avoid a final exam scheduled to be held on [Monday].”

Eldo Kim ’16 charged in Harvard bomb threat

Eldo Kim ’16 was allegedly trying to avoid a final exam.

New genome-editing technologies use proteins called transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs), which have interchangeable, repeatable regions that match one of DNA's four nucleotides: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C). By linking several DNA-binding domains, indicated by colored blocks, researchers can engineer proteins to target specific DNA sequences.

Harvard researchers develop new methods to precisely engineer genomes

Harvard researchers develop new, precise ways to alter organisms' DNA.

A wintry scene by Meri Bond, at the Arnold Arboretum

Art, lectures, cultural and campus events at Harvard in November and December

Harvard arts and cultural events

The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel on anxiety

Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.

Four Harvard buildings were evacuated after an explosives threat

A report of explosives shut down four buildings on campus today.