Month: March 2014

  • Nation & World

    A healthy replacement for dieting

    Three specialists spoke to students about the benefits of intuitive eating in an event at Sever Hall.

    3 minutes
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    Less energy, more creativity

    Two teams of students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design provided a close look — part celebration, part cerebration — at two house designs that won international competitions.

    6 minutes
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    President meets with Graduate Student Council

    President Drew Faust met with members of the Graduate Student Council. She thanked the council members for their contributions to Harvard and shared her thoughts on leadership.

    1 minute
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    Microscopic particles carry big concerns

    With a growing concern about nanoparticle use in everyday objects, scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health have discovered a fast, simple, and inexpensive method to measure the effective density of engineered nanoparticles, making it possible to accurately determine the amount that comes into contact with cells and tissue.

    3 minutes
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    Making labs greener

    Changes in design and behavior are key to making labs more energy-efficient, said experts at a Harvard symposium.

    3 minutes
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    Harvard’s Amaker finalist for 2014 Ben Jobe Award

    Harvard men’s basketball head coach Tommy Amaker has been named a finalist for the 2014 Ben Jobe Award, presented annually to the top minority coach in Division I men’s basketball. The winner will be announced on April 4.

    1 minute
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    Paychecks for college athletes?

    Peter Carfagna, a sports law expert at Harvard Law School, talks about growing legal pressure on the NCAA to reconsider the way it treats student-athletes.

    11 minutes
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    A range of voices on environmental justice

    A two-day conference organized by Harvard Law School students will bring together key players in the environmental justice movement. “Environmental Justice: Where Are You Now?” will be held March 28-29.

    5 minutes
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    Autism as a facet of experience, not a limit

    Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State, brought her experience as an advocate for autistics to a talk at the Ed School.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Emancipation’s long foreshadowing

    Emancipation, said scholar of African America Ira Berlin in a Harvard lecture series, was not a moment in history, but a century-long movement that preceded the Civil War.

    7 minutes
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    College admits Class of ’18

    Harvard College has sent admission notifications to 2,023 students, 5.9 percent of the applicant pool of 34,295. Included are record numbers of African-American and Latino students, who constitute 11.9 and 13 percent of the admitted class, respectively.

    11 minutes
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    Women in the Arab world

    A professor in the department of epidemiology and population health at the American University of Beirut, Huda Zurayk has spent years trying to promote health in the Arab world. She discussed her work and how Arab women are coping with their lives, their health, and the survival of their families in the midst of uncertainty…

    3 minutes
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    Faculty Council meeting held March 26

    On March 26 the members of the Faculty Council approved a proposal on course credits and a proposal regarding academic integrity. They also continued their discussion on simultaneous enrollment.

    1 minute
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    Science on a plate

    Two Harvard College students deliver pizza (with some STEM education baked in) to Cambridge middle school kids.

    6 minutes
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    Economic growth no cure for child undernutrition

    A large study of child growth patterns in 36 developing countries finds that, contrary to widely held beliefs, economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world’s poorest children.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Defending Snowden

    Ben Wizner of the ACLU talked about his work on the Edward Snowden case in a visit to HLS.

    4 minutes
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    For big data, big thinking

    A new course on how to handle big data designed by Assistant Statistics Professor Luke Bornn immerses students in a competitive environment, driven by peer learning, to understand how to handle the massive data sets common in real-world problems.

    5 minutes
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    Seizing power from below

    At an early age, Linda Gordon traded her passion for dance to study history. Today, the accomplished author and historian is spending the year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study working on a book about social movements in the 20h century.

    5 minutes
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    A face is not a fish

    A new study from Dartmouth and Harvard researchers looks at the mechanisms behind facial recognition.

    3 minutes
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    Before the baton, a red pencil

    A new online exhibit sheds light on the creative process of Sir Georg Solti, a giant in 20th-century classical music.

    4 minutes
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    A look inside: The Quad Quartet

    On a quiet Sunday morning, the sounds of strings reverberate through Currier House, emanating from the string quartet in the House’s Senior Common Room.

    2 minutes
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    Solving the problem of shape-shifters

    Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may have found a way to solve a problem that has plagued ligand-mimicking integrin inhibitors, a group of drugs that have the potential to treat conditions ranging from heart attacks to cancer metastasis.

    2 minutes
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    Teaching on campus and off

    Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy teaches a free American history course to low-income adult students as part of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, for which he now holds the first endowed chair.

    7 minutes
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    A sampling of college

    Created 25 years ago as a way to connect Harvard with the Cambridge public schools, Project Teach now involves sharing a research-based approach with educators in the local schools.

    3 minutes
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    Opening academia widely

    In an effort to dispel the notion that graduate school and careers in academia are generally beyond the reach of minority students, Harvard hosted the second Ivy Plus Symposium.

    6 minutes
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    A fresh bite of the Apple

    A classic Harvard Business School case about the Apple creation myth gets a Japanese manga-style comic-book reboot.

    5 minutes
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    The making of a musical

    With a show on Broadway, artist-in-residence Jason Robert Brown explains his craft.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard coed sailing nets two top-five finishes

    In its first multievent weekend (March 22-23) of the spring season, the No. 17 Harvard coed sailing team turned in two top-five performances in two teams races. The Crimson claimed fourth at the Team Race Invitational and took fifth at the 54th Jan T. Friis Trophy.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates

    Harvard researchers have estimated that around 1 million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the number of cases diagnosed every year.

    2 minutes
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    Briscoe wins ‘Nobel Prize of water’

    Harvard Professsor John Briscoe, who has made a career of tackling water insecurity challenges around the world, will receive the Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of water.”

    2 minutes