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Health
Clues to cholera resistance
Researchers have long understood that genetics can play a role in susceptibility to cholera, but a team of Harvard scientists is now uncovering evidence of genetic changes that might also help protect some people from contracting the deadly disease.
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Arts & Culture
Roles of a lifetime
To mark the 100th birthday of screen legend Burt Lancaster, the Harvard Film archive launches a retrospective that samples his decades of great movies.
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Campus & Community
From all over
This year, Harvard Summer School’s size and span — 6,000 students; the 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and American Samoa, and more than 100 countries; an age range of 14 to 81 — demonstrate anew the University’s commitment to diversity.
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Health
New plan of attack in cancer fight
Harvard Professor Martin Nowak and Ivana Bozic, a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics, show that, under certain conditions, using two drugs in a “targeted therapy” — a treatment approach designed to interrupt cancer’s ability to grow and spread — could effectively cure nearly all cancers.
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Science & Tech
The next gold rush: Outer space?
New observations confirm that colliding neutron stars create short gamma-ray bursts, and such collisions produce rare heavy elements, including gold. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe the Earth’s gold likely came from colliding neutron stars.
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Campus & Community
Small business has big impact on Allston
Swissbäkers expands in Allston with the addition of a playground and outdoor seating, adding vibrancy to Western Avenue. The ribbon cutting is part of Harvard’s continued efforts to focus on revitalizing the community.
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Campus & Community
Opening a portal to summer
The Harvard Allston Education Portal has a summer mentoring program that pairs Harvard undergraduates with schoolchildren from Boston’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood to help find new ways to engage the youngsters in math, science, and writing.
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Campus & Community
Postdoc wins Runyon Fellowship
Michael A. Cianfrocco, a postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology, has been named a fellow by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
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Campus & Community
Planting for peace
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes visited the Arnold Arboretum to plant a hydrangea — using a shovel made from the metal of surrendered firearms — as part of his Palas por Pistolas (Shovels for Guns) program.
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Campus & Community
Hamburger to receive honorary degree
Jeffrey Hamburger will receive an honorary degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Arts & Culture
Revolutionary discovery
Harvard’s Houghton Library recently uncovered documents from 1767 that foreshadow the American Revolution: eight sheets of signatures — more than 650 in all — protesting Colonial taxation.
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Health
Reprogrammed cells generate blood vessels
Harvard researchers have generated long-lasting blood vessels from reprogrammed human cells. The study in the mouse model reveals both the potential and remaining challenges to vessel regeneration.
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Health
Target: New ways to battle disease
“The Road to Vital Therapy,” part of the Broad’s Institute’s midsummer science lecture series, discussed how researchers are tapping the human genome, hoping to create effective treatments for vexing afflictions.
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Campus & Community
Robert Putnam receives National Humanities Medal
President Obama awarded Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, with the 2012 National Humanities Medal. Also receiving the award was a former Overseer and former faculty member at the Graduate School of Design.
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Campus & Community
Daniel M. Wegner famous for ‘thought suppression’
Daniel M. Wegner, a pioneering social psychologist who helped to reveal the mysteries of human experience through his work on thought suppression, conscious will, and mind perception, died July 5 at age 65.
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Science & Tech
Efficiency in the forest
Spurred by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, forests over the past two decades have become dramatically more efficient in how they use water, a Harvard study has found.
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Arts & Culture
Studying the Civil War, finding shared values
High school students grapple with national issues by collaborating about Civil War themes to develop a new type of theater experience.
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Arts & Culture
Every stitch of Hitch
In a summer retrospective, the Harvard Film Archive is presenting all of Alfred Hitchcock’s feature films and nine of his silent movies. Starting July 11, the series runs through Sept. 28.
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Campus & Community
Pfister named interim dean
Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and dean of the Harvard Summer School, has been appointed interim dean of Harvard College. Pfister’s career at Harvard spans nearly 40 years.
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Science & Tech
Designing a cleaner future
A slum on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, received major media attention when the world realized it’s where computers go to die. That was when Harvard undergraduate Rachel Field ’12 devoted her senior thesis project to addressing the problem. Her solution was an award-winner.
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Campus & Community
Feast your eyes
Shoppers share their ideas and recipes for making the best usage of fresh summer ingredients purchased at the Harvard Farmers’ Market.
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Campus & Community
A globe-trotter, by design
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences graduate William Marks departs Harvard with a hat trick of achievements: a Fulbright Scholarship, a Gates Cambridge Scholarship at Cambridge University in England, and an offer of admission to Harvard Business School’s 2+2 M.B.A. program.
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Campus & Community
Connell family donates $10M to HBS
The family of the late William F. Connell, M.B.A. ’63, has donated an additional $10 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) to establish the Margot and William F. Connell Family MBA Program Innovation Fund.
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Campus & Community
A Harvard crossroads in summer
The reconstructed Science Center Plaza has become a warm-weather gathering spot, complete with food trucks, and more improvements are on the way.
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Campus & Community
Collaborative museums
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, the new public face of the FAS science museums, has enjoyed a successful first year with new programs and exhibits and a record number of visitors.
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Campus & Community
In pursuit of science
Educational partnerships between Harvard and Cambridge public schools are bringing the theoretical to life, including at the middle school level.
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Arts & Culture
Time for a movie
A Harvard summer film series explores the tick and tock of time, and time travel too. Upcoming films include “Run Lola Run” on July 16, “Memento” on July 30, and “Primer” on Aug. 13. All films are shown at 7 p.m., Science Center Lecture Hall C.
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Arts & Culture
Our signature 1776 revolutionary
Founding Father and patriot John Hancock, he of the famous signature, was also famed in his day as the Harvard treasurer who left town while managing the College funds — and returned them two years later.
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Arts & Culture
Journalism, cinema-style
A new summer film series on journalism opens with a documentary that asks: Will print, and original news reporting, survive the digital avalanche? “Meet John Doe,” presented by James Geary, Nieman ’12, will be shown July 9.
