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  • Campus & Community

    Women’s tennis wins 2 of 3

    The Harvard women’s tennis team pulled a pair of wins this past weekend, including a 4-3 upset over No. 68 Boston College on March 13, and then, bouncing back from a 1-6 loss to No. 52 Florida International (March 15), a 6-1 win over Florida Gulf Coast (March 16). The Crimson now stand at 4-6,…

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson continue to cruise, have won 6 of their last 8

    The Harvard men’s volleyball team are now winners of six out of their last eight, sweeping East Stroudsburg on March 14, 3-0, followed by a 3-0 sweep of MIT on March 17. The Crimson downed East Stroudsburg in straight sets (bouncing back from a loss at Princeton the night before) for their first road win…

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s basketball to play in WNIT

    An Ivy League title and automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament were just out of reach for the Crimson this season, but it’s not time for the Harvard women’s basketball team to hang up their jerseys just yet.

  • Campus & Community

    Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library

    The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards of up to $2,500 for relevant research projects. Preference will be given to applicants pursuing research in the history of work and the family, community service and volunteerism, culinary…

  • Campus & Community

    Walter Cardinal Kasper visits Harvard Catholic Chaplaincy

    His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity at the Vatican, will speak on March 25 at St. Paul Parish, home to the Harvard Catholic Chaplaincy.

  • Arts & Culture

    Looking for Barbies

    In connection with the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere production of Christine Evans’ play “Trojan Barbie,” The Weekly Dig is sponsoring a Barbie Doll competition and exhibition at the Space 242 Gallery in the South End, Boston.

  • Campus & Community

    Longwood goes smoke-free

    The buildings of Harvard Medical School (HMS) at the Longwood campus are entirely smoke-free both inside and out, as of March 16. As part of HMS’s continued commitment to enhancing employees’ quality of life and the environment on campus, smoking is prohibited on all Harvard property in the Longwood Medical Area. This policy applies to…

  • Campus & Community

    Kou named inaugural recipient of Young Investigator Award

    Samuel Kou, professor of statistics and director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award from Texas A&M University on March 14. Kou was presented with his award as part of “Statistical Methods for Complex Data,” a daylong…

  • Campus & Community

    Khanna named fellow of AIB

    Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an expert on emerging economies, has been elected a fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB).

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    March 1901 — On Phillips Field (bounded by Linnaean, Walker, and Shepard Sts.), Radcliffe begins building Bertram Hall, its first dormitory.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Science & Tech

    Do you know what makes you happy?

    Want to know what will make you happy? Then ask a total stranger — or so says a new study from Harvard University, which shows that another person’s experience is…

  • Science & Tech

    Researchers find majority of fire and ambulance recruits overweight or obese

    Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston Medical Center, Harvard University, and Cambridge Health Alliance found that more than 75 percent of emergency responder candidates for fire and…

  • Science & Tech

    Computer science pioneer Barbara J. Grosz awarded Allen Newell Award

    Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University,…

  • Health

    Study identifies human genes required for hepatitis C viral replication

    Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers are investigating a new way to block reproduction of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) — targeting not the virus itself but the human genes the…

  • Science & Tech

    Link found between religious belief, intensive medical care at end of life

    In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that those who draw on religion to cope with their illness are more likely to…

  • Health

    Glass tables: An overlooked safety threat

    Many households harbor a threat to young children that safety regulations, surprisingly, have overlooked: glass-topped tables and tables with glass panels. A review by Children’s Hospital Boston, in collaboration with…

  • Health

    Defibrillators may have little benefit for older, sicker patients

    Defibrillators are commonly recommended to patients with heart failure to prevent sudden cardiac death, but beyond having heart failure, there is a lack of criteria to identify the appropriate patients…

  • Health

    Obesity linked to dangerous sleep apnea in truck drivers

    Truck crashes are a significant public health hazard, causing thousands of deaths and injuries each year, with driver fatigue and sleepiness being major causes. A new study by Harvard researchers…

  • Health

    Wildlife biologist named Roger Tory Peterson Medal recipient, speaker

    Russell Mittermeier, renowned wildlife biologist and president of Conservation International, has been selected to receive the 12th annual Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). Mittermeier will deliver the Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture on April 5.

  • Health

    Culture skews human evolution

    The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an era where culture encourages habits unhealthy for us and for the world around, with uncertain evolutionary outcomes.

  • Campus & Community

    Concentration in human development, regenerative biology added

    Inviting a new generation of scientists into the study of human development, disease, and aging, Harvard University will offer a new undergraduate concentration in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology (HDRB) starting this fall.

  • Health

    Scientists create cell protein machinery

    Harvard scientists have cleared a key hurdle in the creation of synthetic life, assembling a cell’s critical protein-making machinery in an advance that has practical, industrial applications and that enhances our basic understanding of life’s workings.

  • Nation & World

    New Web site aids researchers seeking funding

    With literally tens of billions of dollars in federal research funding suddenly available — and application deadlines for proposals extraordinarily short — Harvard’s Provost’s Office has established a new Web site to aid faculty members seeking grants.

  • Health

    Blood types indicate greater risk for cancer

    Offering a novel clue about the basic biology of pancreatic cancer, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have confirmed a decades-old discovery of a link between blood type and the risk of developing the disease.

  • Health

    Harvard scientists praise lifting of stem cell restrictions

    All across Cambridge and Boston, researchers gathered just before noon on March 9, 2009, for President Barack Obama’s announcement that the federal funding ban on stem cell research would be lifted.

  • Science & Tech

    Cherry A. Murray is named dean of SEAS

    Cherry A. Murray, who has led some of the nation’s most brilliant scientists and engineers as an executive at Bell Laboratories and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been appointed dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), effective July 1, 2009. She will also become the John A. and Elizabeth S.…

  • Health

    The third chapter can be the best in the book

    There may be something to the adage about growing older and wiser. A lot, in fact, according to the new book by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, “The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50,” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). The work explores the trend of learning and development for adults who are…

  • Nation & World

    Politics may be local, but business is global

    In his classes, economist Pol Antràs likes to talk about Barbie. He’s not a devoted fan of the iconic toy. Rather, the native of Spain, who studies the organizational aspects of trade, globalization, and outsourcing, uses her to make an important economic point.

  • Nation & World

    Krook looks at how women fare in international political arena

    This past Sunday (March 8) was International Women’s Day, now in its 99th year. And March is National Women’s History Month. So what better time for a scholarly look at how women are faring in the political arena? Mona Lena Krook did just that, outlining in a March 4 lecture at Radcliffe Gymnasium her years…