Optimism on U.N. climate talks

Momentum building for significant agreement, panelists say

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Harvard breaks LEED record

Earns certification for more building projects than any higher education institution in the world

Radcliffe Fellow Ross Gay brings athletic sensibility to poetry

Poet is a finalist for the National Book Award

Your brain on food

Growing field of nutritional psychiatry finds connections between what we eat and how we behave

Events

Thu., November 19, 2015, 12:30pm - 1:00pm

Leadership in Exporting the First Amendment: Voices in Leadership with David Ensor

Thu., November 19, 2015, 12:15pm - 2:00pm

"Courage First": Dissent, Debate, and the Origins of U.S. Responsiveness to Mass Killing

Thu., November 19, 2015, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Europe in the Grip of a Refugee Crisis: Perspectives from the Region

Thu., November 19, 2015, 3:00pm - 5:00pm

New Ledes: The Media and Criminal Justice Reform

Thu., November 19, 2015, 5:30pm

Studying Traumatic Wounds and Infectious Diseases in the Civil War Hospitals: The Medical Photography of the American Civil War

Thu., November 19, 2015, 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Steven Pinker on "The Past, Present, and Future of Violence"

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Giving Back

Beyond Harvard's gates lie many opportunities to volunteer. This group of students tutors Boston children in an after-school program run by the Phillips Brooks House Association.

Education As A Universal Civil Right

In this HAA “Your Harvard: Atlanta” event, journalist Mary Louise Kelly AB '93 and Professors Roland G. Fryer Jr. (FAS, HGSE) and Meira Levinson (HGSE) take part in an interactive discussion of education as a universal civil right and its capacity to effect change in the world. Recorded in Atlanta on November 4, 2015.

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