Harvard In The News

This morning’s Wall Street Journal reprints a blog post by Eliot University Professor (and former University president) Lawrence H. Summers. Summers, who served as…

That an Obama presidency would save the average American family $2,500 on health-insurance premiums is one of the campaign’s chief talking points—but where did that number come from?

Katz, a former graphic designer who is now an internist at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, tells the Globe that examining art and examining patients have something in common…

In spite of efforts to break down barriers between faculties and between disciplines, Harvard still suffers from a reputation for being “irretrievably Balkanized,” University provost Steven E. Hyman says…

Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Broad Institute have identified six genes they believe play a crucial role in autism…

If the Barack Obama campaign’s web presence reminds you of Facebook, there’s a reason…

On the opinion page of yesterday’s Washington Post, Feldstein (Baker professor of economics, who soon ends his term as president of the National Bureau of Economic Research) sketched the framework for a program of low-interest government loans that…

Writer William Deresiewicz contends that an Ivy League education leaves students with some serious blind spots…

Michael Medved suspects that as college degrees have become more common in the population as a whole, where one obtained that degree has become more important…

CBS News has the story on a new study, led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Edward Giovannucci, that found that men with low Vitamin D levels had more than double the risk of heart attack…