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  • Campus & Community

    ‘The Wave of Change’

    High school students from six states gathered at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in June for a conference on religious diversity and tolerance. Co-sponsored by the Interfaith Action’s Youth Leadership Program and Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, the daylong conference, called ‘T.I.D.E. (Teenage Interfaith Diversity Education): The Wave of Change,’ featured workshops, dialogue, games, and other activities.

  • Campus & Community

    Double dose of good green news

    Harvard and City of Cambridge officials on Tuesday (June 19) used the penultimate day of spring to celebrate a double dose of sunny news.

  • Health

    Teen diets can hurt their lungs

    For most teenagers in the United States and Canada, fish and fruit are not high on their delicious list. Also, many of them — about 20 percent of those under 18 — cough, wheeze, and suffer from asthma and bronchitis. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a connection between these…

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard astronomers share dark prize

    Two teams who upset everyone’s ideas about how the universe works and its future will share the $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize for discovering that 70 percent of the universe is nothing but a strange form of energy.

  • Health

    Getting to obesity’s bottom line

    Hunter-gatherer instincts set loose in a world of modern food abundance are at the root of today’s obesity crisis, according to a Harvard psychologist.

  • Health

    Researchers look at antidepressants and risk of suicide among kids

    Which is more likely to push a depressed child to suicide: not taking antidepressant drugs or taking antidepressant drugs? Medical experts have struggled with this question at least since 1990 when Harvard researchers reported that six people developed suicidal feelings soon after taking Prozac (fluoxetine). This was the first of the now widely prescribed serotonin…

  • Health

    Sex differences in brains reflect disease risks

    Women’s brains are different from men’s. That’s not news. What is news is that the differences are smaller than most people believe. They are not big enough to say that one sex is smarter or better at math than the other.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard launches major initiative to help design international climate agreements

    Harvard University announced in early July a two-year project to help identify key design elements of a future international agreement on climate change, drawing on the ideas of leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and advocacy organizations, both in the industrialized world and in developing countries.

  • Nation & World

    The business of law

    Harvard Law School (HLS) is the place to look for the arcana of legal scholarship and practice — and for the latest on evidence, procedure, contracts, property, crime, torts, and taxation.

  • Campus & Community

    Cashion named acting VP for Alumni Affairs and Development

    President Drew Faust announced today (July 2) that Associate Vice President for University Development and Director of Development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Robert Cashion ’81 has agreed to serve as acting vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development while the search for a permanent vice president proceeds. Cashion assumed his new…

  • Health

    Joslin-led study IDs genes key to regulation of body weight

    A new Joslin Diabetes Center-led study has further illuminated the role of genes in regulating body weight and fat distribution. Because obesity is a major risk factor for type 2…

  • Health

    Trial Turns Over New Leaf for Traditional Herb

    If a painting’s worth were measured by the money it fetched, van Gogh’s famous rendering of his friend and physician Dr. Gachet would be among the most valuable in all…

  • Campus & Community

    Jeffrey S. Flier named next dean of Faculty of Medicine

    Jeffrey S. Flier, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will become the new dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine on Sept. 1, President Drew Faust announced today.

  • Campus & Community

    Moveable feast

    Watch as the Harvard Ukrainian, Baker and Carriage Houses roll down Massachusetts Avenue during a high tech production carried out in low gear.

  • Campus & Community

    From the borderline

    Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

    Toni Morrison.
  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Auction aims to expand day care vouchers for Oxford Street co-op The Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative is the only Harvard-affiliated day care that accepts state-issued tuition vouchers for families who cannot afford the high cost of day care. To help support the expansion of the voucher program, the co-op will hold a silent auction…

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    Khoshbins named interim Currier House masters Shah and Laura Khoshbin were recently named interim masters of Currier House for the 2007-08 academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Arthur Maass

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 15, 2007, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Arthur Maass, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Maass was not only an eminent scholar, but also a devoted, effective, and popular teacher.

  • Campus & Community

    Eileen Jackson Southern

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 15, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    James Robert Hightower

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 1, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial services set for Carroll, Westheimer, Ketelhohn

    Carroll memorial set for today Charles “Chuck” Carroll, longtime Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) employee and a Harvard graduate, died on May 21, after succumbing to a rare blood disease. He was 65.

  • Campus & Community

    Faust installation, Oct. 12

    Incoming President Drew G. Faust will be formally installed as Harvard’s 28th president on Oct. 12 at an outdoor ceremony in the Tercentenary Theatre. An academic procession, featuring representatives of universities from around the world, will begin at 2 p.m. The installation will begin at 2:30 p.m. The event will be open to all faculty,…

  • Campus & Community

    Weatherhead Center awards grants, fellowships

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently announced that it has awarded 27 grants to support Harvard College undergraduates and 12 to support Harvard doctoral students for research this summer. In recent years the Weatherhead Center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students by increasing financial resources, expanding the number of student awards available,…

  • Campus & Community

    Winners of Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science named

    The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) recently named two undergraduate and two graduate students as 2006-07 award recipients.

  • Campus & Community

    Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards 38 certificates

    The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has awarded 38 certificates in health policy to graduating seniors. The 38 students, who come from 14 academic departments, completed an interdisciplinary program of health policy course work and research as part of their work toward the A.B. degree.

  • Campus & Community

    Inaugural Dunlop undergraduate thesis prize is awarded

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Pablo M. Tsutsumi ’07 is the winner of the first John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government. Tsutsumi won the prize for his thesis titled “Domestic Intentions: International Repercussions: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley…

  • Campus & Community

    Dept. of Music announces fellowship, award winners

    Harvard’s Department of Music recently announced its fellowship and award recipients. Close to $220,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard’s Farmers’ Market set to reopen June 19

    Beginning (Tuesday) June 19, the Harvard community can once again enjoy weekly access to freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, handmade breads and pastries, and other healthy, homemade options, when the Farmers’ Market at Harvard reopens. Started by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) in 2006, the market will be held between the Science Center and Memorial…