Harvard In The News

More than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR -TB patients in the study, which was conducted in home and community-based settings in Peru…

Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser doesn’t like the Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act, which would give each American household a tax credit for a third of the household’s energy costs…

A recent essay by John H. Summers, now a visiting scholar at Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, has prompted sharp comment among academic readers…

Passage of the tobacco-regulation bill currently before Congress would represent a major step forward, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Allan M. Brandt wrote in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine…

Last week’s New Yorker had a Talk of the Town piece on the man who hopes to be the first blind rabbi—and in fact, the first rabbi—to serve in the U.S. Congress…

Two members of the 2008 U.S. men’s Olympic rowing team hold Harvard degrees: Cameron Winklevoss ’04 and Tyler Winklevoss ’04…

Julius B. Richmond, MacArthur professor of health policy emeritus and a revered figure among scholars and politicians, died Sunday…

American young adults today have more education than their parents—but the growth rate of educational attainment from one generation to the next has slowed significantly…

Deep in the New Yorker’s exploration of the “gray-area” economy of California’s marijuana growers and dispensers, a Harvard tidbit…

Major League Baseball has retained Carl Morris, professor of statistics and professor of health care policy, to assist in its analysis of the seeming upsurge in broken baseball bats this season…