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Harvard Economist Wolfram Schlenker Is Tackling Climate Change

How extreme heat affects our land—and our food supply 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Alan M. Garber named new Harvard provost

An experienced Stanford administrator, an expert on health policy and economics, returns to take a big job at his alma mater.

Harvard Commencement 2011: Vignettes from the dais

Human touches within Commencement's pomp

Harvard Commencement Confetti 2011

An omnium-gatherum of notes and statistics, vital and otherwise

Harvard's honorary-degree recipients of 2011

The honorary-degree recipients of 2011

Highlights from Harvard's 360th Commencement

Highlights from Harvard's 360th Commencement

Harvard men's basketball wins first Ivy title

The men's basketball team wins its first Ivy title.

Harvard southpaw Brent Suter is one of the Ivy League’s elite starters.

Southpaw Brent Suter averages nearly a strikeout per inning.

by Craig Lambert

Do Harvard undergraduates ponder the meaning of life?

Do Harvard undergraduates ponder the meaning of life?

by Madeleine Schwartz

Roundup of recent Harvard news

The passing of a University icon, Commencement speakers, Overseer leaders, humanities and arts honorands, and other University news