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HUCTW reaches tentative three-year agreement with Harvard on wages

The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers will put a proposal to increase wages before members on April 2.

Harvard administrators embroiled in reports about e-mail privacy

Harvard administrators respond to allegations they secretly accessed teaching staff's e-mail accounts.

Inaugural poet Richard Blanco speaks to Harvard students on identity

The inaugural poet speaks about being a gay Cuban American.

Oprah Winfrey 2013 Commencement speaker; also Geoffrey Canada, Jane Alexander

The media entrepreneur and talk-show host will deliver the afternoon address on May 30.

HSPH and the World Health Organization team up to challenge Big Tobacco globally

World experts team up for a two-day conference on tobacco control in developing countries.

HarvardX and edX leadership named

The administrative and faculty leaders reflect the multidisciplinary breadth of edX and HarvardX.

American Repertory Theater presents Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie”

Tennessee Williams gets his first ART production.

Robert Lue named Bok Center director at Harvard

The innovative life-sciences educator will continue to shape pedagogy in a new role.

Harvard College applications increase for class of 2017

Applications rise slightly more than 2 percent from last year.

Support for Science: Harvard’s Faust at AAAS; Broad's Lander wins $3 million

President Faust promotes it; Eric Lander gets a windfall.

The failed effort to enact cap and trade legislation to fight global warming

A distinguished panel considers why Congress failed to pass economy-wide measures to cap carbon emissions.

Harvard programs bring students together with inmates and their neighborhoods

Courses and programs bring Harvard students and scholars face-to-face with inmates and the communities they come from.

by Elizabeth Gudrais