With music as his muse

Student singer-songwriter entertains at revamped Barker Arts Café
An exchange in ideas and culture

Director screens and discusses King film at Harvard event
Renewing Winthrop House

Planners gather ideas for how to update, improve College living spaces
Mysterious link between galaxy and black hole

Invisible hand of dark matter guides growth of supermassive black holes
Unmasking minstrelsy

Exhibition unearths fresh insights by shining light on song style with deeply racist roots
Dimensions of war, including peace

Decisions toward and away from violence examined in Mellon Seminar
‘Revolutionary’ writing earns prize nomination

Harvard’s Nelson is one of four finalists for George Washington Book Prize

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Arts and Humanities

Dimensions of war, including peace

February 10, 2015

It was almost a decade ago that Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha took over as director of what is now the Mahindra Humanities Center. One vision he had was of a University-wide seminar to address, in detail, year by year, the most vital issues gripping the world.

Restoring Blaschka Sea Creatures in Glass

Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the Glass Flowers, father and son artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka meticulously shaped glass into lifelike models of marine and terrestrial animals.

On Campus

February 6, 2015

A record 37,305 students have applied for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2019. Last year 34,295 applied, while the previous high was 35,023 for the Class of 2017. Read more about On Campus

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Science

Playing the ‘envelope game’

February 19, 2015

Aside from the obvious, what is it that distinguishes Mother Teresa from Sean Penn? Both performed charitable acts. Mother Teresa worked for decades in the slums of Calcutta, and Penn was among those who traveled to New Orleans to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.