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Professor Richard Wrangham lectures on food and diets yesterday during the Harvard Thinks Big event.

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Professors Steven Pinker and Daniel Gilbert chat during intermission yesterday at Harvard Thinks Big.

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Professor Steven Pinker talks about the psychological reasons behind crime and compares crime rates across history at the Harvard Thinks Big event.

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Timothy McCarthy closes his speech and the event by offering the audience the advice to not only think big, but to also act big.

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Computer Science Lecturer David Malan, instructor of popular course CS50, tells the audience during Harvard Thinks Big in Sanders Theatre yesterday about how he discovered his love for computer science.

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Jeremy C. Stein (left), Kenneth Rogoff (middle), John Y. Campbell (right), and Niall Ferguson (not pictured) speak on the events leading up to the global financial situation today and the impact on future economic policies.

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Professor Glenda Carpio speaks about Hip Hop during her 10 minutes at Harvard Thinks Big yesterday in Sanders Theater.

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Computer Science Lecturer David Malan, instructor of popular course CS50, tells the audience during Harvard Thinks Big in Sanders Theatre yesterday about how he discovered his love for computer science.

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Psychology professor Daniel Gilbert was the first speaker of the ten professors present at Harvard Thinks Big yesterday evening in Sanders Theater. Gilbert spoke on the climate crisis and added that a war on global warming should seem as crucial to us as the War on Terror.

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A light snow falls on Harvard Yard. Cambridge had anticipated much harsher weather for all of Wednesday.

Chinese Program Director Departs

Shengli Feng, director of Harvard’s Chinese Language Program and founder of the University’s first Mandarin summer immersion program, is leaving Harvard this fall after seven years to teach at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Today in Photos (2/11/10)

Budding Freshman Author Aims to Inspire

Noni D. Carter ’13 was 12 years old when a family gathering inspired her to embark on a project that would transform her from a child with a dream to a young woman who urges others to follow theirs.

Students React to Cap on Grades

Six years after Princeton capped the number of A’s its professors doled out, discussion over grade inflation has reemerged on Ivy League campuses.

David H. Souter To Deliver Address at Harvard's 2010 Commencement

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter ’61 will speak at this year’s Commencement on May 27, the University announced yesterday.