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Stem cells are the fundamental source of all the bodys tissues, the template from which bodily cells are derived. As cells die off or are damaged, the hundreds of thousands of stem cells in the human body give rise – constantly – to new tissue. Injuries as simple as the scalding of the mouth with…

Harvard Stem Cell Institute, home page to be launched in late spring

At DNAs mysterious command, an embryonic stem cell can somehow become heart, lung, liver, bone, hair, skin, nail, or any other tissue in the body.

Seven Harvard schools, seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to explore the promising area of stem cell research.

Seven Harvard schools, seven teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to use stem cells to help the 150 million people nationally living with or dying from five types of organ and tissue failure.

On Aug. 9, 2001, President George W. Bush changed the landscape around embryonic stem cell research.

While the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute aims to encourage scholarly examination of the ethical issues surrounding the institutes work, a Harvard committee has had a similar, but more practical, role for more than two years.

Stem cell therapies have the potential to do for chronic diseases what antibiotics did for infectious diseases. It is going to take years of serious research to get there, but as a neurologist, I believe the prospect of a penicillin for Parkinsons is a potential breakthrough that we must pursue. As in other areas of…

Joan Acocella, dance critic for the New Yorker, introduced the video as one of the most extraordinary pieces of dance footage I have ever seen.

When Harvard University Professors Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson formally debuted the new peer-reviewed journal they are co-editing, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race last month at the Organization of American Historians meeting, the reaction was not so much Why? as What took you so long?

In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, five Harvard professors recently joined 67 other U.S. scientists and engineers to be elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The election, which was held April 20 during the 141st annual meeting of the academy, brings the total number of active members…

According to a recently published list of rankings for fiscal year 2003, the Forsyth Institute – a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit biomedical research organization – received more in federal grant funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) than any university or other research organization in its specialty. With 40 principal investigators, the Forsyth…

Nathan J. Heller 06 and Amelia E. Lester 05 have been named Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2004-05 academic year. The students will join the magazines staff for the academic year and write a regular column, The Undergraduate, as well as news stories and alumni features. They also provide general editorial…

Water polo felled by No. 20 Brown at Northeast Champs The Harvard women’s water polo team dropped a 9-2 decision against top-ranked Brown in the title game of the Collegiate…

Harvards Office for the Arts (OFA) and the Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have recently announced the winners of the annual undergraduate art prizes. In recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the arts, five seniors and one junior were named recipients for the 2003-04 academic year.

Harvard to back walk for hunger, AIDS For the 18th consecutive year, the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs will contribute 50 cents per kilometer walked, or hour volunteered,…

Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Giuliana Bruno received the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award in Culture and History at a March ceremony for Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso Books, 2002).

After giving a presentation about climate change in Sever Hall, Al Gore continues the conversation with students Caitlin Watts-FitzGerald 06 (from left) and Michelle Sonia 06, and Raymond Lyman, who works in media and technology. Gore made his presentation on April 14 to students in Environmental Science and Public Policy 10.

With his trim beard and snappy straw hat, David Noard looks quite a lot like Vincent Van Gogh, the artist he portrays in his original one-man show, My Name Is Vincent.

Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and vice dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School, has been appointed director of the new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.

A physics professor who has devised ingenious methods for manufacturing and observing antimatter has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Susan Okin service May 2 Friends and family of Susan Moller Okin, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will host a memorial service on May 2 from…

April 21 & May 12, 1939 – In the New Lecture Hall (now Lowell Hall), New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses delivers the 1938-39 Godkin Lectures: “Notes on Theory…

Artist Laurie Palmer spoke April 15 about her installation, The Helium Stockpile: Under Shifting Conditions of Heat and Pressure. Palmer, a Radcliffe fellow, is a conceptual artist whose work focuses on industry, the environment, history, and economics. The Helium Stockpile is inspired by an actual federally owned helium stockpile near Amarillo, Texas, containing 3.7 billion…

David T. Ellwood, the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, will become the next dean of the Kennedy School, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Wednesday (April 21).

Several hundred fans turned out on a chilly spring day at Ohiri Field this past Friday (April 9) to watch the host Harvard Crimson participate in two spring training matches against the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer, and regional power UConn Huskies. Getting a chance to match skills with professional players posed a…

Blazing bats aside, it was another round of solid pitching that helped rocket the Harvard baseball team to the top of the Red Rolfe Division this past weekend at home. In a pair of doubleheader sweeps, four starting Crimson hurlers (and four relievers) allowed Columbia and Penn just nine runs, as Harvard held off the…

I think I was living someone elses life, says Elisabeth Newman.