Month: June 2011

  • Science & Tech

    A supernova that’s super different

    A researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has uncovered a new way that stars end their lives, in a bright, fast explosion that appears different from the known characteristics of the stellar cataclysms called supernovas.

  • Campus & Community

    Commencement Week: The long winding train

    These photographs offer a tribute to the women and men of the Class of 2011, who become the most recent link in the “long winding train” of Harvard graduates.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty invited to seek January grants

    This summer, Harvard faculty may want to start thinking about proposals for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, which begins accepting new applications on Sept. 1. Launched last year, the fund provides grants to faculty across Harvard for the development and implementation of creative learning experiences for students during Winter Break.

  • Health

    ADHD linked to substance abuse risk

    In a long-term study by Harvard researchers, data support the association between childhood ADHD and substance abuse risk.

  • Arts & Culture

    A.R.T. nabs six Elliot Norton Awards

    The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, awarded on May 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Boston, honored the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) with six awards in the Large Theater category.

  • Nation & World

    Schools of the future

    Drawing on their experience as young educators and designers, students from two very different disciplines joined forces to create fresh concepts for daily learning.

  • Campus & Community

    ACLS honors students, grads, faculty

    Current Harvard students, recent graduates, and two professors are among those recently awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.