Harvard In The News

Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has figured out how to transform one type of cell in a living animal into another, using a new process his research team has dubbed “direct reprogramming”…

As the Globe’s Peter Schworm notes, in grandiose language, Harvard has finished second to Princeton for the last two years, but “today, order has been restored to the universe…

Roubini’s pessimistic prognostications have won such supporters as Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth S. Rogoff; Jeffrey Sachs ’76, Ph.D. ’81, who was the founding director of Harvard’s Center for International Development but left in 2002 for Columbia University,…

“[T]his autumn may be Israel’s last and best chance to go after Iran’s nuclear capability,” Feldman wrote in the New York Times Magazine recently…

Proposed amendments to the federal Truth in Lending regulations would be a welcome change, Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein argued on the Wall Street Journal opinion page last week…

Harvard athletes competing in Beijing won two gold and two silver medals over the weekend…

Nine Harvardians, including two undergraduates, will compete in the Beijing Olympic games during the next two weeks, in the sports of…

The article documents how, and why, we are losing the war against these powerful microbes. Hospitals and doctors have overused “last-resort” antibiotics, leading to…

A campaign spokesman called the cartoon “tasteless and offensive”; Silverglate, LL.B. ’67, attributes that reaction to an overblown political correctness that he traces to Obama’s time at Harvard Law School (HLS)…

Hafner writes that Lacy’s “explanation of how venture capital works is instructive and clear, perhaps one of the best yet written for a general readership.”