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Harvard's $130-million deficit in 2011

The University, still adjusting to the financial crisis, incurs a $130-million deficit and pursues both savings and new revenues.

Harvard Commencement Information 2012

Details of the ceremony

Government professor Eric Nelson studies political theory

Profile of a Harvard government professor and political theory scholar

by Craig Lambert

January-February 2012 Shared Interest Group events

News from Shared Interest Groups

Gonzaga Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Catholic oceanside retreat center

Q&A with "baby whisperer" T. Berry Brazelton

Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton looks back at a 70-year career that integrates research, policy, and practice.

David Kwong does magic and builds crossword puzzles

David Kwong has a trick that’s all his own.

by Qichen Zhang

New England sites to retreat, reflect, and rejuvenate the spirit

New England retreat centers offer quietude and the promise of insight.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Gustave and Rita Hauser make a landmark gift for classroom innovation

A $40-million gift jump-starts a University initiative to adapt learning and teaching to twenty-first-century opportunities and challenges.

Arthur Kleinman on the modern Chinese psyche

Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.

John Briscoe discusses water as a platform for development (video)

Four Harvard students from four different disciplines discuss a summer spent in Pakistan investigating water-related issues.

The Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Silent contemplation while living among Episcopal monks