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  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    Harvard University graduate students Satoru Takahashi and Gernot Wagner were recently selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as two of 50 outstanding research participants to attend the second Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences. The meeting, held in Lindau, Germany, Aug. 16-19, welcomed winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory…

  • Campus & Community

    HMS grant search is on

    Each year, numerous postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. These include the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface, the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program in Aging, and the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Program, among others. Nominations…

  • Campus & Community

    HMS Dept. of Ophthalmology awarded RPB grant

    The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology was recently awarded a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) for $110,000 to help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Fulbright Scholars named

    Nine Harvard College students who graduated this past June and 14 current and former graduate students of the University have been named U.S. Fulbright Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Hempton named first McDonald Family Professor

    David N. Hempton, a renowned social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe and North America, has been named as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School.

  • Campus & Community

    Design School students lend a helping eye to nonprofits

    Six Graduate School of Design (GSD) students have been spending their summer applying design skills that they spend the rest of the year acquiring. In communities throughout the area, from Boston’s Chinatown to Lowell to Hyannis, the students are turning theory into reality as they go ahead with proposals that won them summer funding.

  • Campus & Community

    PBHA program turns kids into counselors

    As summer draws to a close and young people across the area begin to think about returning to school, a group of more than 1,000 students ranging in age from 6 to 21 will head back to the classroom having spent another full summer with the Summer Urban Program (SUP) of the Phillips Brooks House…

  • Campus & Community

    Sackler smacks of fun for Boston-area kids

    University museums as a summer fun destination for kids? At Harvard University they are. For the past several years, Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) has offered free museum activities for children visiting from Boston-area summer camps.

  • Campus & Community

    Summer Academy renews commitment

    The free ice cream wasn’t the primary draw of the day, though it was a definite plus. No, on Aug. 9, a jubilant crowd of 100 Cambridge teenagers at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (CRLS) celebrated first and foremost the successful end of six weeks of summer school.

  • Campus & Community

    Government reps visit campus, learn from researchers

    As a part of the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs program to introduce individuals involved in federal funding activities to Harvard researchers, a delegation from the National Science Foundation and the House Appropriations Committee spent this past Monday (Aug. 21) on campus.

  • Health

    Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons

    Opening a whole new interface between nanotechnology and neuroscience, scientists at Harvard University have used slender silicon nanowires to detect, stimulate, and inhibit nerve signals along the axons and dendrites of live mammalian neurons.

  • Campus & Community

    CfA hosts stargazing party

    The Hopkinton Reservoir’s surface shimmered with the moon’s silvery light Aug. 4, but the 50 to 60 people gathered at Hopkinton State Park weren’t there to take in terrestrial sights.

  • Campus & Community

    Seniors salsa in the Yard

    It was salsa for seniors Wednesday (Aug. 9) under sunny skies and shady trees in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre.

  • Campus & Community

    Lecturer, administrator Delba Winthrop Mansfield dies at 60

    Delba Winthrop Mansfield, a lecturer at Harvard Extension School for 27 years and director of the Program on Constitutional Government since 1984, died of cancer on Aug. 16 in Cambridge, Mass. As a teacher, Mansfield will be remembered by generations of students for her sharp wit and deep learning, as well as her graciousness and…

  • Campus & Community

    Hempton named first McDonald Family Professor

    David N. Hempton, a renowned social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe and North America, has been named as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Currently a university professor and professor of the history of Christianity at Boston University,…

  • Science & Tech

    Measuring one of the universe’s building blocks

    Only a few people think deeply about electrons. One is Gerald Gabrielse, Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University. In the past 20 years, he has discovered new things about them, things that even Albert Einstein never knew. And he’s trained a half-dozen young Ph.D.s in the business of how subatomic particles make the universe…

  • Health

    Mental casualties of Vietnam War persist

    More than 30 years after the end of the war in Vietnam, the effect of lingering stress on Americans who fought there continues to cause stress among researchers.

  • Health

    Heat waves deadliest for blacks, diabetics

    Heat waves, like the one that scorched the country in July, are more deadly for some people than for others. Poor blacks and diabetics fare the worst. As you might guess, extreme heat is also hard on the elderly. But as you might not guess, extreme cold has a greater impact.

  • Campus & Community

    University testing new diesel exhaust filter

    Breathe easy. This summer, Harvard became the sole university test site for a new Canadian-made exhaust filter that soaks up the fine soot, hydrocarbons, and odors that normally puff out of diesel engines.

  • Campus & Community

    Obesity begins in the womb

    The obesity epidemic in the United States has spread to include children under 6 years old and particularly infants, according to a Harvard study.

  • Science & Tech

    Deep-sea sediments could safely store man-made carbon dioxide

    An innovative solution for the man-made carbon dioxide fouling our skies could rest far beneath the surface of the ocean, say scientists at Harvard University. They’ve found that deep-sea sediments could provide a virtually unlimited and permanent reservoir for this gas that has been a primary driver of global climate change in recent decades, and…

  • Campus & Community

    Reporters see gloom, doom for investigative future

    Women who strive to make new biological discoveries at universities are awarded less than half the number of patents than their male colleagues.

  • Campus & Community

    Women far behind in patent awards

    Women who strive to make new biological discoveries at universities are awarded less than half the number of patents than their male colleagues.

  • Campus & Community

    Celtic Dept. chair, housemaster Dunn dies at 90

    Charles W. Dunn, the Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, died July 24 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston at the age of 90.

  • Health

    Beetles’ past tells volumes about tropical evolution

    Experts seeking to explain the amazing diversity of the tropical rain forest have typically done so in two ways, viewing forests as either “evolutionary cradles” that encourage the rapid development…

  • Science & Tech

    Tilting at ice ages

    Here’s a story to cool you off on a hot summer day. One of the major mysteries of ice ages may have been solved by a Harvard climatologist.

  • Arts & Culture

    Founder of Harvard’s Statistics Department, Frederick Mosteller, dies

    Pioneering statistician Frederick Mosteller, a retired Harvard professor whose broad-ranging work influenced public health, medicine, education, and even American history, died Sunday (July 23) at age 89.

  • Campus & Community

    Founder of Harvard’s Statistics Department, Frederick Mosteller, dies

    Pioneering statistician Frederick Mosteller, a retired Harvard professor whose broad-ranging work influenced public health, medicine, education, and even American history, died Sunday (July 23) at age 89.

  • Campus & Community

    How Darwin’s finches got their beaks

    Darwin’s finches are the emblems of evolution. The birds he saw on the Galapagos Islands during his famous voyage around the world in 1831-1836 changed his thinking about the origin of new species and, eventually, that of the world’s biologists.

  • Campus & Community

    Hormone mix raises breast cancer risk

    Women who try to ease the symptoms of menopause by taking a testosterone-estrogen mix raise their risk for breast cancer, according to a Harvard Medical School study.