Month: June 2014

  • Nation & World

    In soccer, a game plan for life

    Several Harvard students and alumni will work in some of Brazil’s most underserved communities this summer, helping change lives through soccer.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The goal: New arms

    Will Lautzenheiser, a former Boston University film professor who lost his arms and legs from an infection, has been cleared by the Institutional Review Board at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a double arm transplant, a complex procedure requiring 12 to 16 hours of work by a team of surgeons.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tomorrow isn’t such a long time

    A study by Harvard researchers and colleagues tested ways to encourage decisions mindful of future generations.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The genesis of genius

    Tiny, hand-lettered, hand-bound books Charlotte and Branwell Brontë made as children have been lovingly restored at the Harvard Library.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Scrolls and scrolling

    Students in two spring courses combined library and museum visits with digital tools to produce exhibits about the Middle Ages — one in Houghton Library and the other online.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Time to go to market

    The two farmers’ markets at Harvard have reopened for the summer.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The death penalty and Christianity

    In a question-and-answer session, Harvard Divinity School’s Francis X. Clooney discusses how Christian advocates and opponents of the death penalty turn to Scripture for support of their positions.

    16 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lurie wins award

    Harvard mathematics Professor Jacob Lurie has been named one of five inaugural recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for outstanding achievement in his field. Honorees will each receive a trophy and $3 million prize at a ceremony this fall.

    1 minute
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    5 named Harvard College Professors

    Their scholarly interests range from the design of programming languages to health economics to the molecular changes that influence evolutionary fitness. One thing the five faculty members who were awarded Harvard College Professorships in recent weeks have in common is a gift for instilling passion for education in their students.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sound technique

    Memorial Church has gained another dimension of resonance with the installation of a new bell.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Middle schoolers embrace health

    Nearly 400 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders from 15 schools across Boston and Cambridge visited Harvard Medical School as part of the annual program Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities. The program works to expand students’ knowledge of health and public health issues.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Old Harvard, old France, old crime

    An exhibit drawn from the holdings of the Harvard Law School Library combines detailed scholarship with a touch of scandal.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Now available on the Web? Smells

    Harvard Professor David Edwards and a former engineering student, Rachel Field, added another sense to digital communications, sending a smell across the Atlantic, where a scent generator called an oPhone reproduced it.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Worrisome growth pattern

    Forest growth is starting to show the effects of climate change, new research finds.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Management Company turns 40

    University and Harvard Management Company officials gathered Thursday to mark the anniversary of the latter’s founding, which made Harvard one of the first universities with a specialized organization to oversee its institutional investments.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A malignant ‘switch’ in breast cancer

    A team of researchers led by David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has identified a possible mechanism by which normal cells turn malignant in mammary epithelial tissues, those frequently involved in breast cancer.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Above and beyond

    Harvard Heroes ceremony celebrates 64 unsung staffers for their unusual and valuable contributions to University life.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    World Cup worries

    Harvard Kennedy School associate professor, a native of Brazil, reflected on the World Cup and its likely repercussions.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Delving into dark matter

    Harvard physicists have suggested that a disk of dark matter may lie along the center line of the galaxy.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A rising tide

    Early results from new reforms instituted at the Lawrence Public School system show promise.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Robert Richardson Bowie

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 1, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Robert Richardson Bowie, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Bowie, who founded the Center for International Affairs, combined distinguished academic achievement with professional service at…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 1, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Bernard M. W. Knox, Professor of Greek, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Knox was the founding director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nathan Keyfitz

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 4, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Considered the…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    James Thompson

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 5, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Burleigh Thompson, Jr., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Thompson predicted the possible existence of several hypothetical silicate minerals that were subsequently found in…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wallace MacCaffrey

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 1, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Wallace Trevethic MacCaffrey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor MacCaffrey, a definitive authority on the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was awarded the American Historical Society’s…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Serafín Moralejo

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 3, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Serafín Moralejo Álvarez, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Fine Arts, was placed upon the records. Professor Moralejo, a distinguished scholar of medieval art, devoted the greater part of his energies…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    John Peter Huchra

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 1, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late John Peter Huchra, Robert O. and Holly Thomis Doyle Professor of Cosmology, was placed upon the records.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mendillo to step down

    After six years as the helm of Harvard Management Company, which oversees Harvard University’s endowment, President and Chief Executive Officer Jane Mendillo says she will step down at the end of the year.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A shot against heart attacks?

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists collaborating with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a “genome-editing” approach for permanently reducing cholesterol levels in mice through a single injection, a development with the potential to reduce the risk of heart attacks in humans by 40 to 90 percent.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Daniel Bell

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 1, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Daniel Bell, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Bell was a sociologist whose analysis of the end of ideology, post-industrial society, and the…

    5 minutes