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Health
Giving weight too much weight
Programs to combat obesity may be aggravating eating disorders and undermining their severity, said experts during a panel discussion hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Arts & Culture
Confronting campus issues from the stage
The Bok Center Players specialize in thought-provoking theater examining race, gender, and identity.
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Health
Teaching computers to identify odors
Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers were able to “train” a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents, and identify whether specific odors were present in a mix of smells.
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Campus & Community
Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes
Law Professor Glenn Cohen led an interactive one-night class at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston that focused on the complicated questions surrounding the legal, medical, and ethical aspects of bioethics.
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Arts & Culture
An imaginative leap into real-life horror
Colson Whitehead ’91, author of the acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad,” talks about Harvard, writing, and slavery.
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Nation & World
What Russia wants
Russian leader Putin and his government seek respect and stability from the next U.S. administration, Institute of Politics panel says.
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Science & Tech
Why lose the headphone jack?
Harvard Engineering Professor Woodward Yang discusses Apple’s decision to get rid of the headphone jack.
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Nation & World
An opponent who prevailed
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives Harvard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year award.
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Campus & Community
From Ed Portal to Harvard Yard
When incoming freshman Kevin Yang learned he was accepted to Harvard College, he quickly wrote and thanked one of the people who helped him the most — Tri Huynh. As a Harvard student, Huynh, now a teacher in California, tutored Yang once a week at Harvard’s Education Portal in Allston.
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Nation & World
The miracle of a museum
Judge Robert Wilkins, a Harvard Law graduate and author, talks about the efforts to build the National Museum of African American History & Culture, which opens Sept. 24.
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Health
At the Arboretum, a scientific swerve
A new species of truffle fungus, related to the delicacy prized in Southern Europe, was found at the Arboretum by an undergrad researcher.
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Nation & World
An ailing economy
National political dysfunction is crippling U.S. competitiveness, a major Harvard Business School report says.
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Campus & Community
Menand wins National Humanities Medal
Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President Obama.
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Science & Tech
Strong case for seagrass
New findings on seagrass reinforce the need to direct research where biodiversity is most at risk, says Harvard Herbaria fellow Barnabas Daru.
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Campus & Community
For Faust, new year brings fresh challenges
In a question-and-answer session at the start of the new academic year, Harvard President Drew Faust discussed single-gender social organizations, endowment issues, the importance of increasing diversity and safeguarding the humanities, and how she spends her downtime.
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Health
Progress against acute myeloid leukemia
A new drug compound developed by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to treat acute myeloid leukemia is gentle enough to use with patients too frail to endure chemotherapy.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 14
On September 14 the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian for the 2016–2017 academic year and heard a presentation of a resolution by Professors Harry Lewis, Margo Seltzer, and Richard Thomas.
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Health
Prospect of shorter treatment and cure for chronic myelogenous leukemia
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a slowly progressing type of blood cancer that develops in the bone marrow. Researchers discovered that CML stem cells die in response to inhibition of a protein called Ezh2. Drugs that target the protein are currently being tested in clinical trials for other cancers.
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Science & Tech
Testing the test questions
A group of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has found a way for schools, professors, textbook publishers, and educational researchers to check the quality of their test questions that turns out to be both fast and cheap. It invokes the power of crowdsourcing.
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Arts & Culture
The sacred in Harry Potter
Two graduates and a student of the Divinity School have found an audience with their podcast “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text,” about reading the famous series through a spiritual lens.
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Health
Finally, hope for a young patient
A gene therapy trial points to a healthier future for a young patient suffering from a rare immune disease.
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Campus & Community
William Kaelin wins Lasker Award
Harvard Medical School Professor William G. Kaelin Jr. was named the winner of the 2016 Lasker Award for Medical Research, America’s most prestigious biomedical award. He was honored for his work in the root causes of cancer.
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Campus & Community
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi honored at Harvard
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was the general secretary of the newly formed National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar in 1990, will receive the Harvard Foundation’s 2016 Harvard Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award on Sept. 17.
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Arts & Culture
The director and the whistle-blower
Filmmaker Oliver Stone tells a Kennedy School audience how he came to make a film about the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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Health
Clues to how ‘super-agers’ retain young memories
Researchers examined a group of older adults with extraordinary memory performance and found that certain key areas of their brains resembled those of young people.
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Campus & Community
Deeper creativity
New Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey talks about his goals for the division.
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Nation & World
Want to thwart criminals? Take away their cash
In his latest book, “The Curse of Cash,” Ken Rogoff, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, argues that the elimination of big bills could help stem crime and even aid countries trying to rebound from financial collapse.
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Arts & Culture
A prize of a weekend
The 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes brought leading lights from journalism and the arts to Harvard to reflect on accountability and the abuse of power.
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Arts & Culture
LGBTQ Film Series lets ‘Baby Daddy’ creator do the talking
Actor Alec Mapa’s most recent project, “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” will be shown on Sept. 14 at 114 Mt. Auburn St. as part of Harvard’s LGBTQ Film Series.
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Arts & Culture
Words aimed at action
Author Terry Tempest Williams is the guest speaker at the Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center, a new initiative convened by Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey and history Professor Ian J. Miller.
