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Campus & Community
Go wide, go long
Between the hubbub of classes, panels, arts events, and myriad opportunities the University offers, the Harvard campus is brimming with common spaces
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s graduates, aiding others
A panel discussion served as the launchpad for the Harvard Alumni Association’s annual global month of service, with gatherings planned worldwide.
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Campus & Community
In L.A., the watchword is Harvard
More than 350 Harvard alumni and friends gathered in Los Angeles earlier this month to network with peers and take part in discussions on why creativity is so essential to living our best lives.
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Arts & Culture
Reality, fiction in Italy’s empire
GSAS doctoral students create an exhibit to feature personal albums, photographs, postcards, and maps from Harvard’s rich trove of 20th-century propaganda related to Italy’s late participation in the colonial “scramble for Africa.”
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Campus & Community
Chu, Clair to lead Overseers
Morgan Chu, J.D. ’76, has been named president of the Board of Overseers for 2014-15. Walter Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, will serve as vice chair of the board’s executive committee.
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Arts & Culture
A gallery grows in Allston
Unbound Visual Arts, a nonprofit based in Allston-Brighton, has organized an exhibit in the Harvard Allston Education Portal.
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Health
A healthy replacement for dieting
Three specialists spoke to students about the benefits of intuitive eating in an event at Sever Hall.
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Science & Tech
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.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Health
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.
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Science & Tech
Making labs greener
Changes in design and behavior are key to making labs more energy-efficient, said experts at a Harvard symposium.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Nation & World
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…
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Campus & Community
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.
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Campus & Community
Science on a plate
Two Harvard College students deliver pizza (with some STEM education baked in) to Cambridge middle school kids.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
Defending Snowden
Ben Wizner of the ACLU talked about his work on the Edward Snowden case in a visit to HLS.
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Science & Tech
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.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Health
A face is not a fish
A new study from Dartmouth and Harvard researchers looks at the mechanisms behind facial recognition.
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Arts & Culture
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.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Health
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.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Campus & Community
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.
