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Health
Taking the long way home
A Harvard graduate student has shown that some Australian and Pacific Island daddy longlegs took an unusual path to their new homes: drifting from the Americas and then island-hopping to their new continental home in Australia.
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Campus & Community
Lessons for the lucky few
In her Baccalaureate Address, President Drew Faust urged graduates of the Class of 2012 to be mindful of their good fortune — and to embrace the responsibilities a privileged education bestows on them.
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Campus & Community
Sharp messages
Poet Kay Ryan and former Harvard President Derek Bok blended wit and wisdom in addressing top-ranked seniors at the 222nd Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on May 22.
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Campus & Community
Commencements, from 1642 onward
In its earliest years, the struggling College was chronically short of money and sometimes even graduates.
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Campus & Community
Motley crew receives ACLS honors
The American Council of Learned Societies awarded fellowships and grants to faculty, fellows, and students at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Four from HBS win Dean’s Award
Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2012 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.
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Arts & Culture
Where the magic happens
We asked several Harvard authors to talk about something different, not what’s in their books but where and how they write them. Here’s what they said.
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Health
Following the worm
Harvard research examining the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans — tiny, transparent worms — suggest a path for investigations that may shed light on disorders such as schizophrenia.
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Health
Scientists restore basic vision in lab mice
A researcher at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School has regenerated optic nerves in laboratory animals and restored basic vision to the animals.
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Science & Tech
Toxic mercury springs from a hidden source
Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean.
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Nation & World
Power, personified
In a talk on his book “The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life,” Professor Roger Owen described how the Arab world’s dictators came to power — and how their curious political network helped fuel the eventual uprisings against some of them.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with Jane Mendillo
The Harvard Gazette sat down with Jane Mendillo, the president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), to discuss the opportunities in today’s global markets.
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Campus & Community
Harvard student, Mexican politician
When Lilia Aguilar earns her Kennedy School degree, she’ll return to her homeland to ramp up her campaign for a seat in congress.
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Science & Tech
A forest washing into the sea
Harvard researchers probe environmental shifts on Martha’s Vineyard, where they document one wooded area’s recovery from a massive die-off and another’s passage into the ocean.
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Campus & Community
Garber, Gawande elected into APS
Marjorie Garber and Atul Gawande have been elected members of the American Philosophical Society.
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Campus & Community
Splendid acres
A thousand or so visitors wandered the colorful collections of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum on Lilac Sunday.
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Health
Vivid details
A landmark effort to sequence the genome of the butterfly Heliconius melpomene has revealed that it shares genes that control color patterns with two species that closely mimic its appearance — Heliconius timareta and Heliconius elevatus — suggesting that all three exchange genes as a result of occasional hybridization.
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Campus & Community
A maestro and a wordsmith
Senior Matt Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music, with a degree in English, a passion for writing and composing, and a future destined for The New Yorker, or the conductor’s chair, or both.
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Campus & Community
The right place, the Wright time
Keith Wright calls his decision to come to Harvard “the best in my life.” Crimson basketball fans would agree. The forward and his teammates have made history since he arrived in 2008, transforming a losing program into one of the Ivy League’s most successful.
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Campus & Community
‘Voice of public service at Harvard’
Calling the Kennedy School “the voice of public service at Harvard,” University President Drew Faust welcomed alumni from across seven decades Friday to a special 75th anniversary conference.
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Health
Astral feast
Supermassive black holes snack infrequently, making the recent discovery of a black hole in the act of feeding all the more interesting to astronomers.
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Campus & Community
A costly divide in education
As part of the John Harvard Book Celebration, Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney spoke about the most effective ways to close the achievement gap between low-income students and their middle and higher-income peers.
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Campus & Community
Faculty honored with PBK Teaching Prizes
The Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota Chapter of Massachusetts announced three recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize in Excellence in Teaching for this academic year.
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Campus & Community
Hoffman named Trudeau Scholar
Steven Hoffman, a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Health Policy program, has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Trudeau Scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Biostatistics honors Begg
Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics announced that Melissa D. Begg will be the first recipient of the newly established Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Campus & Community
Chef to receive Healthy Cup Award
Jamie Oliver, the internationally acclaimed chef of “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” will be honored by the Harvard School of Public Health for his substantial achievements in working to end the childhood obesity epidemic.
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Campus & Community
Counter knighted by King of Sweden
Noted neuroscience professor S. Allen Counter was appointed Knight of the Order of the Polar Star First Class by Carl XVI Gustaf, king of Sweden.
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Campus & Community
Scholar publishes book on Civil War
“Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War,” a book by Megan Kate Nelson, has recently been published by the University of Georgia Press.
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Campus & Community
Ash Center funds experimental student projects
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced it will fund 23 students through experimental learning projects this summer.
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Campus & Community
Prizes awarded for Jewish studies
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard announced the recipients of the 2012 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2012 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.