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Campus & Community
John Briscoe dies at 66
John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Health at Harvard University, died Nov. 12 at his home in Poolesville, Md. He was 66.
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Nation & World
Helping Albania break with the past
The Kennedy School is working with the government of Albania to help the nation put an end to a long period of economic dysfunction.
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Arts & Culture
Lansbury returns to Harvard
Stage, screen, and television icon Angela Lansbury, at 89, makes her second visit to Harvard, for a screening of a film at the Harvard Film Archive.
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Health
Reprogramming cells, long term
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have demonstrated that adult cells, reprogrammed into another cell type in a living animal, can remain functional over a long period. The work is an important advance in the effort to develop cell-based therapies for tissue repair, and specifically in the effort to develop improved treatment for diabetes.
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Campus & Community
Bustle, brass, and brio
In a weekend celebration, the public swirled through the galleries of the revitalized Harvard Art Museums.
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Nation & World
The man with the ‘golden ear’
Music industry titan Clive Davis, LL.B. ’56, chats with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow about his nearly 60 years in the business.
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Nation & World
Murders in Mexico
Two Harvard affiliates are launching a Boston-area program of talks, videos, and discussion over the implications of 43 “disappeared” students in Mexico.
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Arts & Culture
The mission of art museums
In 20 years as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Malcolm Rogers has often courted controversy with his enthusiastic embrace not only of new media, but new definitions of art itself. Rogers gave the Lowell Lecture at Emerson Hall on Thursday evening.
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Health
Calculator adds up cardio risks
The new Healthy Heart Score developed by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health gives individuals an easy way to estimate their 20-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The free Web-based survey can be found at www.healthyheartscore.com.
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Science & Tech
Spiritual and sustainable
A Harvard Divinity School conference focused on climate change reduction efforts as moral choices.
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Science & Tech
Major boost for computer science
Steve Ballmer was joined by President Drew Faust and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Dean Cherry Murray at an iLab event to formally announce that the University will increase its computer science faculty by 50 percent over the next few years, to 36 from 24.
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Health
Defining rights
Researchers from around the world came to Harvard to examine the rise of international court cases on issues of sexual and reproductive rights.
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Health
Defending against the flu
Raphael Dolin of the Medical School discusses the evidence for hand washing, the timing of flu season, and who’s most vulnerable to serious complications.
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Nation & World
Kissinger, on diplomacy
Henry Kissinger visited the Harvard Law School campus to share the lessons he learned as U.S. secretary of state and national security advisor under two presidents.
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Nation & World
Obamacare, back on trial
HLS health care law expert Einer Elhauge discusses the latest Supreme Court case to test the Affordable Care Act.
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Campus & Community
Coding and creativity
Harvard Assistant Professor Karen Brennan is one of the developers of Scratch, a free online computer programming language that allows users to create stories, games, and animations. She discussed its benefits at a recent Ed Portal’s Faculty Speaker Series talk.
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Campus & Community
Funding the next generation of scholars
Twenty undergraduates from around the world will have the chance to get hands-on experience in Harvard labs this summer, thanks to a four-year renewable grant to expand the Amgen Scholars Program to the University.
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Arts & Culture
Daoism’s ongoing influence
James Robson, professor of East Asian languages and civilizations, has edited the Daoism volume of “The Norton Anthology of World Religions.”
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Campus & Community
Resonant journey
Experiences in Moscow reinforced for Dylan Perese ’16 the importance of trust in cultural exchange.
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Campus & Community
Emperor Akihito of Japan honors Joseph Nye with award
Emperor Akihito of Japan presented Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Joseph S. Nye with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies faculty Professor Andrew Gordon was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.
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Campus & Community
Parents make a weekend of it
Families converged in Cambridge for Freshman Parents Weekend, the annual welcoming of parents that features faculty presentations, tours of the libraries and museums, and the opportunity to sit in on classes. Approximately 2,000 family members came to Harvard to visit their student over the weekend.
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Arts & Culture
Activating a new space
A select group of Harvard students witnessed the installation of a kinetic sculpture in the Harvard Art Museums by contemporary German artist Rebecca Horn on Nov. 5.
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Arts & Culture
Ukraine comes into focus on film
Harvard Library is sponsoring a series of films by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa in conjunction with its exhibit “Lives of the Great Patriotic War.” The film series continues Nov. 15 and 17. The exhibit is open through Nov. 26 at the Pusey Library.
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Campus & Community
A new lesson plan
HGSE is launching a new teacher fellows program, giving undergraduates a pathway to teaching careers.
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Arts & Culture
Foreshadowing feminism
Organizing and canvassing for anti-slavery petitions by women from 1833 to 1845 was a transformational training ground for suffragettes and other social activists following the Civil War.
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Science & Tech
Online hub for social science
The Digital Lab for the Social Sciences is designed to serve as an online clearinghouse where social scientists can find study participants.
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Nation & World
McCawley combats homelessness
Andrew McCawley, president and CEO of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, describes the steps the organization is taking to combat homelessness among U.S. veterans and how likely it is that the nation will see the complete eradication of veteran homelessness by 2016.
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Nation & World
HLS legal clinic lands victories for veterans
Since its founding in 2012 by Clinical Professor of Law Daniel Nagin, more than 30 HLS students taking part in the Veterans Legal Clinic have represented more than 100 clients in the areas of federal and state veterans’ benefits, discharge upgrades, and estate planning.
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Campus & Community
Students first
Keeping with its mission as a new type of teaching and learning museum, on Thursday evening the Harvard Art Museums welcomed its first visitors: University students.
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Nation & World
Undermining intelligence
Social psychologist and author Claude Steele talks about how negative stereotypes about a social group’s intellectual abilities can trigger anxiety and cognitive difficulties in those who identify with that group, leading to chronic underperformance.
