Month: October 2009

  • Nation & World

    Harvard vs. Princeton – Men’s Soccer

    Harvard falls to Princeton in a tough, mid-Fall battle.

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    GQ Ranks Elizabeth Warren Among D.C.’s Most Powerful

    Harvard Law School professor and bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren took the 30th spot on GQ’s biennial list for her role as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on the Troubled Asset Relief Program…

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    Swine Flu Hit Millions in Spring, Agency Says

    There were 1.8 million to 5.7 million cases of swine flu in the country during the epidemic’s first spring wave, according to a new estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday… From 9,000 to 21,000 people were hospitalized as a result, and up to 800 died from April to July, when…

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    Face it:

    Gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women, according to the results of a new study by a Harvard researcher.…

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    Treasures unearthed

    Students display results from a semester-long dig in Harvard Yard, including a musket ball, a slate pencil, and a piece of print type with the letter “o.”

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    Ecologies of value

    Radcliffe Fellow and anthropologist Heather Paxson is studying small artisanal cheese operations as “ecologies of production” that are both commercial and moral.

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    Up Close, part 3

    In the fast pace of our daily lives we may overlook the details that, collectively, create a stunning backdrop for all that happens within the University. See the inner workings of Harvard’s pianos up close, while enjoying a melodic feast for the ears.

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    Facing your preferences

    Researchers discover that similar qualities of observation drive gay and straight men in their judgments on attractiveness.

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    The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service

    Who says the government doesn’t need to work better? After Hurricane Katrina, intelligence failures, and security lapses, Bilmes and Gould argue that hiring a capable federal workforce is central to serving the nation properly.

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    Venomous bite

    Biologists have shown that independent but similar molecular changes turned a harmless digestive enzyme into a toxin in two unrelated species — a shrew and a lizard, giving each a venomous bite

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    Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature

    Thornber whisks us to Asia at the turn of the 20th century, where she documents how Japan’s literature interacted with China, Korea, and Taiwan, thus challenging Japan’s cultural authority.

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    Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning

    A new teaching model inspired by medical rounds performed by physicians? Check. These authors dissect education and offer up their pioneering and pain-free prescription.

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School

    When programmers at the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston were asked to create a grants database for researchers, they knew where to start. They simply asked the hospital’s affiliated Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors about their Facebook-surfing habits.

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    Physician training 2.0

    Doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital team up with the New England Journal of Medicine to create online medical cases that can teach better than lectures.

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    The piano man

    Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.

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    Rebel with a cause

    Before Greg Epstein became chaplain at Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy, he was a rock star. Now he’s written a book on Humanism, a religious philosophy that rejects supernaturalism while encouraging virtuous actions and decisions.

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    Lessons from the East

    On an internship from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Peter Bernard ’11 traveled to Japan where he worked at a bookstore and learned that “the culture of books and print is alive and well.”

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    Labor intensive

    Newly tenured, the first full-time Americanist in the history of the Department of History of Art and Architecture enjoys how her studies can touch on literature, the sciences — even bird-watching.

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    Many hands

    More than 60 Harvard volunteers descended on the 80-year-old Cambridge Community Center Inc. (CCC) Saturday (Oct. 24) for a much-needed, daylong facelift.

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    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Green ’13 is a new initiative from the class of 2013 that aims to change the culture of personal behavior, starting with being more sustainable.

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    Harvard Forest announces Bullard Fellows in Forest Research

    Harvard Forest recently announced the 2009-10 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. The fellowship program was established in 1962 to support the advanced research of individuals who show promise in making important contributions to forestry.

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    Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Cherry A. Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, hosted her first “all-hands” community meeting on Oct. 16 to outline her ambitious 10-year plan for the School.

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School

    When programmers at the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston were asked to create a grants database for researchers, they knew where to start. They simply asked the hospital’s affiliated Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors about their Facebook-surfing habits.

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    Donald Harnish Fleming

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Donald Harnish Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Donald Fleming was a scholar of intellectual history and the history of science and medicine.

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    Harris Wang wins 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition

    Harris Wang, doctoral student in biophysics at Harvard Medical School, wins grand prize in Collegiate Inventors Competition.

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    Administrative Fellowship Program names nine fellows

    Continuing the legacy of a flagship leadership development fellowship for high-potential academic administrators of color, nine new fellows have been selected for the 2009-10 class of the Administrative Fellowship Program.

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    Paul Goldhaber

    Dean emeritus Paul Goldhaber, dean at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) for 22 years, died July 14, 2008, at the age of 84. With a passion for research and an insatiable curiosity, he worked tirelessly with the hope that his lab work would encourage others to do the same.

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    Mark E. Richard named professor of philosophy

    Mark E. Richard, who specializes in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and metaphysics and epistemology, has been named professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2010.

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    ‘The Lab’ opener set for Nov. 8

    Members of the Harvard community are invited to celebrate the opening (Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m.) of The Laboratory at Harvard, a new platform for student idea experimentation in the arts and sciences.

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    Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute

    Don’t be puzzled. Be moved and amazed. Those 10 conical piles of rock, sand, and aggregate in one corner of Radcliffe Yard are actually “Stock-Pile,” a work of landscape art.

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