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Health
Sperm competition, cooperation
Some mouse sperm can discriminate between their brethren and the competing sperm from other males, showing an unusual behavioral complexity.
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Campus & Community
Scientists use nanotech to prevent heart disease
Scientists at MIT and Harvard Medical School yesterday announced that they teamed up to create what they’re calling “nanoburrs,” nanotechology that sticks to arteries the way that pesky burrs in the woods stick to your clothes.
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Campus & Community
Thrills and spills
Allston-Brighton residents flock to new ice skating rink, which Harvard opened in a former auto garage and showroom.
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Campus & Community
‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal, 72
Erich Segal, the author of the Harvard-based novel “Love Story” and who once taught classics at the University, died of a heart attack on Jan. 17. He was 72.
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Nation & World
Medical workers gain momentum
Harvard-affiliated doctors report on carnage, rescue operations in quake-ravaged Haiti, as medical teams gain traction.
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Campus & Community
PBHA vies for $1 million award
The good deeds of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) are being handsomely rewarded through a Facebook contest grant, and there may be more assistance in the wings.
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Campus & Community
Babette Whipple, former MGH psychology researcher, dies at 91
Babette Samelson Whipple, former psychology researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), died on Dec. 18, 2009, after a short illness. She was 91.
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Nation & World
Harvard mobilizes relief fund
Assistance mobilizes to aid earthquake-shaken Haiti, including groups of experts and medical personnel affiliated with Harvard.
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Nation & World
Timely course
Why do societies and their governments fail so often to act in time to avert crises that appear in plain sight? What can be done to alter that pattern? Those questions served as impetus for a new intensive January session course, “Acting in Time,” at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Campus & Community
Harvard College to enroll small number of transfer students
Beginning next fall, Harvard College will resume enrolling a small number of undergraduate transfer students from other colleges and universities. The College’s transfer program was temporarily suspended in 2008. In…
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Campus & Community
Hasty taps Hathaway
Actress Anne Hathaway is chosen as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2010 Woman of the Year, and will visit Cambridge on Jan. 28.
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Campus & Community
Corporation search committee invites nominations and advice
Members of the Harvard community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing board.
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Campus & Community
A first for Harvard
For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students have applied for undergraduate admission. Applications have doubled since 1994, and about half of the increase has come since the University implemented a series of financial aid initiatives over the past five years to ensure that a Harvard College education remains accessible and affordable…
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Campus & Community
Harvard opens skating rink in Allston
Harvard University will open a free skating rink in Allston on Friday (Jan. 15). The 40-by-60-foot temporary indoor rink will be open to the public Fridays and weekends through March 28.
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Health
Zebrafish point the way
A new technique for screening drugs’ effects on zebrafish behavior is pointing Harvard University scientists toward unexpected compounds and pathways that may govern sleep in humans.
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Campus & Community
Mathematician gains dual appointments
Sophie Morel, a young mathematician whose research involves algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory, is named professor of mathematics in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She also is named to the Radcliffe Alumnae Professorship.
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Health
Fishing for new medications
A robust new technique for screening drugs’ effects on zebrafish behavior is pointing Harvard scientists toward unexpected compounds and pathways that may govern sleep and wakefulness in humans. Among their…
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Campus & Community
Xie to receive award from DOE
Harvard Professor Sunney Xie was one of six recipients of the 2009 E.O. Lawrence Award.
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Campus & Community
Catching up on lost sleep a dangerous illusion
People who are chronically sleep-deprived may think they’re caught up after a 10-hour night of sleep, but new research shows that although they’re near-normal when they awake, their ability to function deteriorates markedly as night falls…
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Nation & World
Harvard responds to Haiti crisis
A catastrophic earthquake in Haiti Tuesday (Jan. 12) has prompted a rapid-fire response of broad-based medical and humanitarian assistance from Harvard and its affiliates.
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Health
Chronic sleep loss degrades nighttime performance
Although the exact function of sleep remains unknown, sleep is clearly necessary for optimal cognitive performance, learning, and memory.
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Campus & Community
H1N1 vaccine clinic
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received a new shipment of H1N1 influenza vaccine and will distribute it at a clinic open to all members of the Harvard community under age 65.
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Health
Doubts about health care reform
A group of Harvard scholars and visiting health care experts offers a pessimistic view of health care reform at a Harvard Medical School symposium.
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Campus & Community
It’s not easy being Big Green
Surging Harvard men’s basketball team runs away from Dartmouth, 76-47, to continue best start in its 99-year history.
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Campus & Community
Harvard China internship program open to Harvard College students
The Harvard China Student Internship Program is accepting applications through Jan. 29.
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Arts & Culture
Defining themselves
Two daguerreotypes recently acquired by the Harvard Art Museum’s Department of Photographs show a distinguished African-American man and a woman, countering stereotypes of the day.
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Campus & Community
Toxic Metal Found in Kids’ Jewelry Very Dangerous
Cadmium is particularly dangerous for children because growing bodies readily absorb substances, and cadmium accumulates in the kidneys for decades.
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Health
Quantum (not digital) computing
Study uses quantum computing to make calculations, in a breakthrough that could change myriad fields, including cryptography and materials science.
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Health
Light worsens migraine headaches
Normal 0 0 1 701 4001 33 8 4913 11.1282 0 0 0 Ask people who suffer from migraine headaches what they do when they’re having attacks, and you’re likely…