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Professor Doug Melton, co-director Harvard University Stem Cell Institute

Professor Doug Melton’s work for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute hasn’t always made him popular. He fought with the Bush administration over federal funding for his research, argued with religious…
March 5, 2014

Latinos: “The Future is Ours”

“Take a hard look,” Jorge Ramos implored his audience, “because you’re looking at a dinosaur.” Ramos wasn’t talking about his 25 years on Univision’s news desk—or about his head of…
March 5, 2014

Reporting on Russia: In Conversation with Miriam Elder and Julia Ioffe

From the Olympics in Sochi, to protests in Kiev that ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to the movement of Russian troops in Crimea, Russia has been one of the…
February 28, 2014

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wins Taylor Family Award with “Deadly Delays”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2013 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for Deadly Delays. The comprehensive watchdog investigation reveals how delays in newborn screening…
February 28, 2014

Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer-winning biographer: 1925-2014

Justin Kaplan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for his biographies of literary greats Mark Twain and Walt Whitman and muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens, died on March 2 in Cambridge,…
February 27, 2014

Remembering Raymond White, class of ’76

Raymond J. White, a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1976, has died in Maryland at the age of 79.
February 26, 2014

Pamela Colloff accepts 2014 Lyons Award

Speaking recently at the Nieman Foundation, Pamela Colloff, winner of the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, offered a confession: “I love reporting. I hate writing.” Why…
February 20, 2014
Daniel Gilbert, Harvard Psychology Professor

Daniel Gilbert, Harvard Psychology Professor

Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert said there is a scientific basis for the advice that mothers give about how to be happy: get married, make money, and have children. The…
February 19, 2014

Edward Walsh, former Washington Post and Oregonian reporter, dies at 71

Edward Walsh, '82, who covered politics for The Washington Post and The Oregonian, died on Feb. 14 at the age of 71.
February 14, 2014
Noah Feldman, Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School

Noah Feldman, Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School

During a talk at Lippmann House, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman addressed the future of China and Egypt as well as the furor over what he wrote about his high…
February 12, 2014