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Nation & World
Lessons of the Haiti quake
Leaders of government, military, and nongovernmental organizations gathered at the Faculty Club and Loeb House to take a look back at the response to last year’s Haiti earthquake and seek lessons that can be applied to future disasters.
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Health
Kidney close-up
Scientists at Harvard have created breathtaking three-dimensional images of an entire organ, moving a step closer to understanding the complex development of the kidney.
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Nation & World
A constitutional question
A panel of legal scholars examined whether health care reform is constitutional during a panel at Harvard Law School.
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Health
Progress against melanoma
Harvard stem cell researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have taken two important steps toward development of a new way of treating melanoma, the most virulent form of skin cancer.
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Nation & World
At ground zero in coastal Japan
In a rare opening for American-trained physicians, three Harvard doctors spend time bringing medical aid to a tsunami-stricken city in coastal Japan.
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Health
Studying the roots of life
Key amino acids important for biological life are among the ones most easily formed in nature, according to Ralph Pudritz from McMaster University.
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Nation & World
‘Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward’
The disaster created when an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis struck Japan may be entering a new stage as the effects start to ripple through the country’s economy, politics, and society, according to a panel of Harvard analysts and Japanese officials.
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Health
Benefits of eating fish tip the scale
In a new, large-scale study from Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, researchers found no evidence that higher levels of mercury exposure were associated with higher risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, or total cardiovascular disease in two separate studies of U.S. adults.
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Health
Multiple myeloma genome unveiled
Harvard scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive picture to date of the full genetic blueprint of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer.
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Nation & World
Spotlight on Harvard in Brazil
President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Brazil, she is reconnecting with alumni, exchanging ideas with the leaders of local universities, and meeting with Brazilian students who have studied alongside Harvard students or with Harvard faculty in Brazil.
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Campus & Community
Six Harvard students receive Soros Fellowships
Six from Harvard University have been awarded 2011 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.
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Campus & Community
AHA honors Ruhul Abid’s research
A paper by Ruhul Abid was recently selected by the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology as the most outstanding vascular biology paper of 2010.
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Campus & Community
HMS fellowship open for applicants
Harvard Medical School and the Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Junior Faculty Merit Scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held March 23
At its 11th meeting of the year on March 23, the Faculty Council heard a review of the joint A.B./M.M. program with the New England Conservatory. They also voted to amend the rules concerning study out of residence and to update the faculty’s media policy. Finally, they heard reports on the activities of undergraduates and…
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Campus & Community
A champion of democracy
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Kennedy School alumna who has restored stability to her war-torn nation, will be the speaker at Harvard’s 360th Commencement, a choice lauded by faculty.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s 360th Commencement
Ticketing and viewing information for alumni/ae, parents, and others regarding Harvard’s Commencement Exercises on May 26.
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Campus & Community
Harry Z. Mellins
Harry Z. Mellins was recruited in 1969 to be chief of diagnostic radiology and residency program director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — a position he held until his death in 2009.
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Science & Tech
Tracking your friends and idols
Two Harvard undergraduates have developed a website called Newsle that tracks news of Facebook and Linked In contacts.
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Arts & Culture
Digitizing the classics
Professor works to transform ancient Greek texts and their Arabic translations into an open-access, computerized format that could provide important insights into the development of science.
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Campus & Community
Finding a sense of place
A Harvard undergrad who was a summer intern for a nonprofit in Europe returns for another dose of experience in January.
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Health
‘Circuits of sense and sensibility’
A Harvard biologist succeeds in mapping a neural network for learned olfactory behavior, using a roundworm model to trace the dislike of a particular smell to the reaction that avoids it.
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Nation & World
The road to Chile, Brazil
On her South American trip, Harvard President Drew Faust meets with government and academic leaders, reconnects with Harvard alumni, and views the tangible benefits of the University’s research.
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Campus & Community
Together again
Aisha and Shayna Price are sisters from Hawaii who rock it out in the swimming pool for Harvard’s water polo team.
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Health
A fate in the stars
Astronomy Professor David Charbonneau is as enthusiastic about explaining his field to students as he is about researching faraway planets.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Dudley House Co-op
Before the Dudley Co-operative Society was founded in 1958 as alternative housing for Harvard undergraduates, it was a bed and breakfast where Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are reported to have slept.
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Arts & Culture
Theater’s new frontiers
Offbeat Director John Tiffany, whose company stages productions in unlikely locales, is using a fellowship year at Radcliffe to explore the ways that people communicate, complete with tics.
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Nation & World
Do ask, do tell
Former Army helicopter pilot finds a home at Ed School, hopes that reversal of policy on gays in military may allow her return to service.
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Campus & Community
Designing a stronger safety net
A new series of free financial planning seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Benefits Office, aims to get employees thinking about retirement long before the last paycheck comes. The next session is April 7.
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Arts & Culture
Just the fax
A traveling exhibition at the Carpenter Center shows off the humble fax as a medium for art, displacing the art of the hand with the foibles of electronic transmission. The exhibition continues to April 10.
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Nation & World
The tipping point
Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.
