Faculty

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FAS Restructuring Layoffs Begin

College staff whose jobs will be changed or eliminated were notified this week.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Does “Sharkskin” Swimwear Make You Faster?

Research by Harvard ichthyologist George Lauder suggests otherwise.

Calorie-burning beige fat identified by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers

Cells isolated at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute may aid anti-obesity efforts.

Carmen M. Reinhart named professor of international financial system

The coauthor of the bestseller This Time is Different arrived July 1.

An undergraduate journalist gains experience working at a newspaper in Chile.

A young journalist gains experience in Chile.

by Andrew Chow

Ofer Bar-Yosef finds evidence of 20,000-year-old pottery in China

Ofer Bar-Yosef dates pottery in China to 20,000 years ago, 10 millennia before the invention of agriculture.

GSAS and SEAS launch new applied science master's degree

The master’s in computational science and engineering launches in 2013.

Lawrence Lessig Q&A

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"Golden Holocaust," by Robert N. Proctor, advocates the abolition of cigarettes

Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.