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Arts & Culture
A Julia-worthy feast
An extensive archive at the Schlesinger Library illuminates the life and work of Julia Child, whose writings and TV show brought the world of French cuisine to the American masses.
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Campus & Community
The poetry of achievement
Thirty high school students from the Boston area gathered for the Crimson Summer Academy’s annual poetry slam. The young scholars spend three consecutive summers on the Harvard campus, amid classes, projects, field trips, and cultural activities to achieve their dream: success at college.
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Health
Simplifying multidrug therapies
As described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team found that by studying how drugs interact in pairs, researchers can predict how larger combinations of drugs will interact.
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Campus & Community
Pausing to celebrate
More than 100 faculty, students, and staff from the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology turned out for a barbecue to celebrate the full-professor promotions of Kevin Eggan, Konrad Hochedlinger, and Amy Wagers.
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Campus & Community
Amid the gold rush
Harvard Olympians are making headway in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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Campus & Community
O’Callahan a new director at HUHS
Patrick O’Callahan has been named the new director of after-hours urgent care and the Stillman Infirmary at Harvard University Health Services.
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Campus & Community
Varsity status for women’s rugby
Harvard will create a varsity women’s rugby team, to begin play in the 2013-14 season.
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Health
Estrogen and female anxiety
Some women’s vulnerability to anxiety and mood disorders may be explained by their estrogen levels, according to new research by Harvard and Emory University neuroscientists.
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Health
Mercury pollution, still spreading
With mercury contamination from coal burning and other industrial processes spreading in the environment, a new book edited by a Harvard Medical School staff member offers an overview, touching on chemistry, biology, and public health.
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Campus & Community
On bicycles built for 1,000
The popular Hubway regional bike-share program, up and running in Boston, is expanding into the nearby communities of Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline, with Harvard playing a key role.
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Arts & Culture
From cradle to grave, through history
In “The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death,” Professor Jill Lepore shows, with wit and wisdom, that our existential anxieties are anything but new.
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Nation & World
Toward better aid
Three Harvard specialist draw from field experience in a discussion of the past and future of humanitarian aid.
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Campus & Community
A really cool treat
Harvard employees enjoyed ice cream and the Olympics on Friday during a gathering sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President.
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Campus & Community
Summer in the cities
Planning and executing an outdoor festival for 1,000 people isn’t your typical teenage summer job, but 100 Boston-area teenagers employed as junior counselors in the Phillips Brooks House Association’s summer camps pulled it off without a hitch.
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Campus & Community
APA honors book on literacy
“Literacy and Mothering: How Women’s Schooling Changes the Lives of the World’s Children” by Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola, Meredith Rowe, and Emily Dexter has won the 2013 Eleanor Maccoby Award by the American Psychological Association.
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Campus & Community
A lighthearted lunch
Close to 1,000 members of Cambridge’s senior community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre for the 37th annual summer luncheon.
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Campus & Community
Daniel Aaron’s century
A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.
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Campus & Community
Lessons in boldness
Greater Boston high school students learn the finer points of design as part of Project Link, a four-week summer program run by the Graduate School of Design.
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Nation & World
Inspiring as well as educating
Led by members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, 83 teachers from around the world convened at Harvard last weekend for workshops and discussions to explore how the arts can help engage students across a range of subjects.
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Nation & World
The long journey to asylum
Behind the legal technicalities practiced at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, there are asylum clients with pain and persecution behind them, and hope ahead.
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Health
Stars in the making
A paper authored by Harvard’s Eli Visbal with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University suggests that it may be far easier than commonly thought to peer deep into the universe’s history and observe the telltale signs of the formation of the first stars and galaxies.
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Science & Tech
Deep glow
Dancers and scholars explored the art and science of bioluminescence during “Living Light” July 31 at the Science Center.
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Arts & Culture
Round and Round
With their inspired and insightful eyes, the Gazette’s staff photographers bring life at Harvard full circle. [Photo Journal]
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Campus & Community
A moveable feast comes to Harvard
On Tuesdays, from 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m., members of the Harvard community stop by food trucks parked on Oxford Street and try a variety of artisan dishes for their lunchtime reprieve. The trucks are part of a Harvard community outreach effort called the Harvard Common Spaces program.
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Arts & Culture
Sweeping gestures, divine power
Master of calligraphy Haji Noor Deen’s work is on display in the CGIS South building in an exhibit titled “Arabic Islamic Calligraphy in the Chinese Tradition: Works by Master Haji Noor Deen,” through Aug. 20.
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Science & Tech
Action figures come to life
A group of graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters — or any other three-dimensional animations — into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3-D printer.
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Health
Health care savings, naturally
Though questions persist about whether natural remedies are as effective as their pharmacological cousins, one Harvard researcher is trying to understand the economic benefits people receive by relying on such traditional cures.
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Science & Tech
When microbes make the food
A Harvard Summer School class spurs learning through food, by examining how microbes — bacteria and fungi — can help as well as harm when they get into food, doing much of the work preparing cheeses, beer, soy sauce, and even chocolate.
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Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson wins Cosmos Prize
E.O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the 20th annual International Cosmos Prize by Japan’s Expo ’90 Foundation. The prize, worth 40 million Japanese yen ($511,444), will be presented to Wilson on Oct. 29 in Osaka, Japan.
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Campus & Community
Harvard baseball coach dies
Joe Walsh, the Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67 Head Coach for Harvard Baseball, died suddenly at his Chester, N.H., home early this morning, the Department of Harvard Athletics announced July 31.
