Congratulations, Harvard Professor Oliver Hart! This marks the 49th Nobel a Harvard faculty member has been awarded. Hart shares the award with Bengt Holmstrom of the +Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

After nearly 13 weeks of summer quiet, Harvard Yard awoke again as the Class of 2020 officially arrived on campus.

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Findings from the Harvard Chan School strengthen the case that type of fat, rather than amount, matters most.

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New analysis by Harvard Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson finds the conflicted motivation of news outlets covering the 2016 election has resulted in significantly lopsided and disparate attention paid to the Republican and Democratic candidates.

Donald Trump got the most coverage of any candidate running on either side, the vast majority of which was favorable in tone, according to the study.

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Recent graduates and students discuss how a revived ROTC program enriched their Harvard College experience and taught them more than they could have imagined.

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From the 15 sets of twins currently enrolled as undergraduates at Harvard, Gazette photographers chose four sets to provide a window into the lives of this special segment of the student body.

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Harvard researchers have developed the first autonomous, untethered, and entirely soft robot. Built with 3D printers and pneumatically powered by controlled chemical reactions, the "octobots" could revolutionize how humans interact with machines.

Join us in welcoming the Harvard College Class of 2020! Look around Harvard Yard in this 360° time-lapse video of today’s move-in day.

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Harvard University, along with many other selective colleges and universities, has long championed the importance of a diverse student body, contending in amicus briefs in the University of Texas case and others that a diverse community is essential to creating an educational experience that prepares students for future success.

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Scientists at Harvard have created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels.

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A link between deficits in gut flora and brain inflammation may lead researchers to learn more about its impact on multiple sclerosis.

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When it came time for Hawking to speak, before a group of 70 crowded into Vafa’s living room, he delivered a story not about science, but about a trip he took to Iran in 1962, shortly before he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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