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Harvard Endowment Rises 21% on Hedge-Fund Gains
Harvard University, the world’s richest school, said its investments rose 21 percent in the past year, outperforming benchmarks and extending the rebound from record losses in 2008.
Harvard endowment posts big investment gain
Harvard University’s endowment earned 21.4 percent on its investments for the year ended June 30, roughly in line with the financial performance of other large funds, the school’s money managers reported yesterday.
Michael J. Sandel, the Harvard University political philosopher, is a rock star in Asia, and people in China, Japan and South Korea scalp tickets to hear him..
TV time tied to diabetes, death
People who spend more hours in front of the television are at greater risk of dying, or developing diabetes and heart disease...
Century-old tortilla chip in a Harvard collection
Harvard has been collecting things for a long time, probably beginning with the donation of a library by its namesake, John Harvard...
Human cell becomes living laser
Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.
Study ties bullying, domestic violence
Boys who are bullies are nearly four times as likely as non-bullies to grow up to physically or sexually abuse their female partners
Prostate Cancer Risk May Be Reduced by Drinking Coffee, Harvard Study Says
Drinking coffee, regular or decaffeinated, may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, according to a study by Harvard University researchers.
Star count of the universe may triple, new study suggests
A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated.
Heavy smoking in pregnancy linked to crime in offspring
Mothers who puff a pack a day or more while pregnant run a 30-percent higher risk of having kids who become criminal offenders, according to a study published Tuesday…
Baby photos from the ultimate edge – a black hole
Astronomers may have lucked into the ultimate in cosmic baby pictures: a voracious black hole fresh from its violent birth…
Brain-damage risks higher for younger marijuana users, study says
People who start smoking marijuana before they turn 16 may damage their brains more than people who start later, according to a small study from McLean Hospital...
Screening: Side Effects From Endoscopic Procedures
Instead of relying on doctors’ reports about adverse events, Harvard's Dr. Daniel Leffler used electronic medical records to track emergency visits and hospital admissions that occurred within two weeks of a colonoscopy or upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy and that appeared to be related to the procedures…
At Harvard, the Kitchen as Lab
Harvard students are savoring an undergraduate course that uses the kitchen to convey the basics of physics and chemistry...
Do Americans Really Want a Smaller Government?
Many conservative Americans are making the Tea Party-style argument that the U.S. government should be small, localized, and as personally unobtrusive as possible according to a new survey by Harvard University
Trials set for body-chilling anaesthesia
Medical researchers at Harvard say they are poised to begin human trials on a suspended-animation technique for surgery patients.
Gordon Brown: UK and US must coordinate economic policy
Gordon Brown warns in speech at Harvard that America and Europe risk a decade of high unemployment and low growth unless new policies are urgently taken to improve global co-operation.
The perfect dish? It’s all academic
This year, Harvard University has gathered 12 of the most accomplished chefs from around the world to teach “Science and Cooking’’ at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Ex-UK PM Gordon Brown to serve as Harvard fellow
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been named a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
Medical Liability Costs Make Up 2.4% of U.S. Health Spending
Medical malpractice and guarding against suits cost the U.S. about $55.6 billion annually, or 2.4 percent of the total health-care bill, according to Harvard University’s Atul Gawande and co-authors.
Study Links Chronic Fatigue to Virus Class
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and Harvard Medical School link chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus
Scientists Unravel Secrets of Sound Sleep
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) find that people's brain rhythms during sleep may hold the answer to sleeping through loud noise.
Kindergarten skills pay off in big bucks
Harvard-led study shows children, whether rich or poor, who were in top-scoring kindergarten classes back in the 1980s have grown up to earn about $1,000 more a year than their peers in weaker performing classes...
B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media
Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile) and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business (Columbia Full-Time MBA Profile) have joined a growing list of business schools that are adding courses on social media to their MBA curricula...
Nasa Discoveries Spark Hopes Of Alien Life
Nasa’s planet-hunting deep space observatory has found hundreds of new potential planets, sparking hopes of finding other worlds similar to Earth… Scientists say the results contradict older theories that had suggested small and Earth-like planets would be less frequent. An astronomer on the Kepler mission, Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, revealed the [...]
Former Harvard star Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent guard, was signed by the Golden State Warriors yesterday...
Female Academics Less Satisfied Than Male Counterparts
In the survey, led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, women reported less satisfaction with reasonableness of scholarship expectations for tenure, whether their institutions make raising children and the tenure track compatible and the way they spend their time as faculty, among others…
Partners to build Haiti hospital
Partners In Health, the Boston-based global health initiative that has been the face of health care in Haiti after the devastating earthquake six months ago, is building a new teaching hospital there.
Screams from Greek stage aim for doctors’ hearts
As medical technologies extend the lives of the sickest, medical schools across the country have struggled to find a way to help doctors better navigate new moral quandaries around death and dying.
HBS professor says male job loss a long-term problem
Three quarters of the seven million jobs that have vanished in the recession belonged to men. The male unemployment rate is now 9.8 percent, vs. 8.1 percent for women. The trend got Larry Summers, the president’s top economic adviser, speculating recently, “When the economy recovers five years from now, one in six men who are [...]
Harvard professor a hit on Japanese TV
One of the hottest television shows in Japan this spring revolved around Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s recorded classroom lectures about philosophy. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, picked up in April the PBS show featuring Sandel’s lecture show, titled “Justice.” Rebranded as “Harvard Hakunetsu Kyoshitu (Harvard’s Heated Discussion Classroom),” the show quickly drew wide notice and topped [...]
Scientists hit on universal theory of bubbles
James Bird, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, finds that bubbles just don't disappear.
All-USA College Academic winners defy expectations
Harvard social studies major and ROTC member Christopher Higgins, 22, stumbled onto his passion in 2007 while interning at New Hope, an orphanage in Uganda
Child weight loss reduces diabetes risk
Researchers at Harvard University find that overweight girls who lose weight before adulthood reduced their risk of diabetes.
Harvard Grads Choose Public Service Over Big Bucks
It’s college graduation season in the United States. Even in today’s weak economy, students from prestigious Ivy League universities like Harvard have an extra advantage on the road to financial success. However, not everyone in Harvard College’s Class of 2010 is striving for a lucrative career. Career choices Graduation is just days away, and Robin [...]
Hardened Arteries, Elderly Falls Linked
A stiffening of the aging brain's blood vessels reduces their ability to respond to changes in blood pressure, increasing the risk of falls by as much as 70% according to a neurologist at Harvard Medical School
Adults’ suicide risk similar for all antidepressants
People have about the same risk of having suicidal thoughts or attempting suicide when starting out on antidepressants no matter what type of pill they're prescribed, new research shows.
Diabetes drug tied to reduced breast cancer risk
Women who have used the diabetes drug metformin for more than five years may have a lower risk of breast cancer than diabetic women on other treatments, a new study finds...
In poor countries, taller moms’ kids are healthier
In developing countries, taller moms tend to give birth to healthier kids who are less likely to die in infancy, be underweight or have stunted growth, a new study finds...
Harvard-based pay-for-study experiment shows students incentivized to actions, not results
A program that paid city students if they got higher test scores earned an F, a new study shows.
Study: Walking Seems to Lower Women’s Stroke Risk
Women can lower their stroke risk by lacing up their sneakers and walking, a new study suggests…
Radiation use may raise adult cancer risk
NEW YORK — Women’s risk of developing breast cancer may increase as much as 20-fold if they were treated with chest radiation for malignancies as children or young adults, according to an analysis of studies… In the second study on lifespan, Jennifer Yeh, a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, developed a mathematical [...]
Everyone has baggage, but Lalita Booth's is heavier than most.
Painkillers may lower risk of breast and ovarian cancers: Harvard researchers
Harvard researchers find that painkillers reduce levels of the female hormone oestrogen in the system which can fuel certain forms of cancer...
Harvard opens classes to all, online
Harvard University yesterday launched its own version of iTunes U, on a dedicated portion of iTunes…
US ski Paralympian overcomes rare disease
Cailtin Sarubbi is on leave from her freshman year at Harvard to race on the U.S. Ski Team at the 2010 Paralympics.
New cancer drug screening method created
Scientists affiliated with Harvard Medical School say they've developed a laboratory technique that improves on traditional methods of screening potential anti-cancer drugs.
Few U.S. studies compare one drug to another
Comparing medical treatments to find the best and the cheapest may be a pillar of U.S. healthcare reform efforts, but very little such research is being done, according to a report from Harvard Medical School published on Tuesday
Poll finds widespread pessimism among the young
The poll by Harvard’s Institute of Politics found that six out of 10 young adults surveyed worry they may not meet their current bills and obligations.
Climate coverage difficult, but journalists shouldn’t opt out
Not so long ago it appeared that a U.S. cap-and-trade bill was well on its way to becoming reality. But then came the "climategate" emails and increased political opposition, particularly in the Senate, to taking action. While public worries over the impacts of climate change had once been climbing, they've since fallen to levels lower than they were 20 years ago.
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