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Martin Nowak in a suit attentively listens during a conference, seated among an audience.

Martin Nowak Placed on Leave a Second Time

Further links to Jeffrey Epstein surface in newly released files

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Graduate School of Education releases study on teens and digital stress

Study could lead to better support of adolescents growing up in the digital world.

A new permanent exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases more than 50 glass models of marine invertebrates from the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology—models crafted by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, creators of the famous Glass Flowers. This model is <i>Tubularia indivisa</i>, or oaten pipes hydroid. (MCZ SC119)

The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates

The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates.

Robert Gardner in his Cambridge home, October 2013

Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88

The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.

Brianna Macgregor '16 and Ozdemir Vayisoglu '16, both fellows at the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program, digitally access information about an object at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, during a workshop on cultural interpretation.

Harvard students spend summer on arts and humanities research projects

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...

Inspired by the bright blue feathers of the cotinga, Harvard researchers are developing structural colors that mimic its hue.

Harvard engineers craft long-lasting structural colors

Inspired by birds’ feathers, engineers craft long-lasting structural colors.

by Katherine Xue

Eastern hemlocks at Harvard Forest&rsquo;s Slab City wildland

Harvard researcher David Foster on the slow death of the hemlock tree

A tiny insect, the woolly adelgid, is killing off these giant evergreens.

by Laura Levis

The ancestors of modern humans interbred with other early hominids, including Neanderthals.

Early human history brought to light by genetics

Genetics sheds light on early human history.

by Katherine Xue

David A. Moss

Tobin Project real-world social science, inequality, regulation

The interdisciplinary Tobin Project addresses real-world problems.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Poey as depicted in <i>Popular Science Monthly</i> (1884).

Brief life of Cuban naturalist Felipe Poey, by Lindsay Brownell

Brief life of Cuba’s greatest naturalist: 1799-1891

by Lindsay Brownell

Global Health Equity Option Scholar Hanna Amanuel '16 (center) with a local family in Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico. Amanuel spent this spring semester working with Compañeros En Salud México, Partners in Health's sister organization in Chiapas, as part of a new study-abroad program.

Global-Health Learning in Rural Mexico

Harvard Global Health Institute introduces a unique study-abroad opportunity, melding coursework with field experience.

by Francesca Annic...