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Arts & Culture
Megan Marshall ’77 wins Pulitzer
Megan Marshall ’77 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), her richly detailed biography of the 19th-century author, journalist, and women’s rights advocate who perished in a shipwreck off New York’s Fire Island.
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Nation & World
Recipe for children’s success spelled out by expert panelists
Pathways exist for children to succeed in life, confirmed a group of researchers, policymakers, lawyers, and educators gathered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on April 10. However, they acknowledged that obstacles may stand in the way.
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Campus & Community
At 125, Johnston Gate gets a facelift
Johnston Gate, Harvard’s main portal since it was finished in 1889, is getting a landscaping facelift to celebrate its 125 years.
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Health
Rules of evolution
For most people, rock-paper-scissors is a game used to settle disputes on the playground. For biologists, however, it is a powerful guide for understanding the key role mutation plays in…
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Campus & Community
The Pershing Square Foundation awards $17M to Harvard
Harvard University announced today that New York–based The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF), founded by alumni Bill Ackman ’88, M.B.A. ’92, and his wife, Karen Ackman, M.L.A. ’93, has awarded the University $17 million to catalyze the work of its Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative.
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Health
TV a sleep detriment in children, study finds
A study following more than 1,800 children from ages 6 months to nearly 8 years old found a small but consistent association between increased television viewing and shorter sleep duration.
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Health
Eve Ensler’s personal monologue
Author and activist Eve Ensler, who opened Radcliffe’s two-day conference “Who Decides? Gender, Medicine, and the Public’s Health,” read from her new memoir, “In the Body of the World.” The conference brought together physicians, policymakers, journalists, and academics to examine topics such as how we care for our health and respond to disease.
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Nation & World
Correa touts the ‘Ecuadorian Miracle’
In describing his country’s progress in recent years, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa made an energetic case in support of his policies during an address at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday.
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Campus & Community
Bursts of thought
Twelve professors delivered short lectures on research or teaching in an event sponsored by the Harvard Graduate Student Government.
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Nation & World
Working with China on key issues necessary
Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick advocated engagement with China in areas of agreement as the nation faces its multiple challenges in environment, economy, and energy supply.
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Campus & Community
By the people, for the people
Annual dinner honors Harvard staff who became U.S. citizens with help from the Harvard Bridge Program and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
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Health
Digital record of a stand against chaos
Strong Medicine is a Harvard-sponsored archive of stories, photographs, oral histories and other media documenting the medical community’s response to the marathon bombings.
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Nation & World
Faith and free markets
The HDS Episcopal/Anglican Fellowship hosts the fourth annual New England Anglican Studies Conference, an academic and ecumenical conference at Harvard Divinity School. The theme of this year’s conference is “Christianity and Capitalism.”
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Health
Huffington’s awakening
Reformed workaholic Arianna Huffington talked about her new book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder,” during a visit to HSPH.
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Arts & Culture
Africa’s love supreme
On Friday, a Harvard religious studies group — the only one to focus on faith traditions from the African diaspora — hosts a conference to investigate the varieties of love: devotion, intimacy, and ecstasy.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 9
On April 9 the members of the Faculty Council discussed multi-year financial planning and continued their conversation about University finances.
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Arts & Culture
Papyrus fragment put to test
A wide range of scientific testing indicates that a papyrus fragment containing the words “Jesus said to them, my wife” is an ancient document, dating between the sixth to ninth centuries C.E. Its contents may originally have been composed as early as the second to fourth centuries.
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Arts & Culture
Trials of empathy
Empathy, Rowan Williams argued in his first Tanner Lecture, is a tool for seeing the self.
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Science & Tech
Rapid-fire exchange
Faculty, staff, and students gathered from around campus for a discussion about social media at Harvard. While civil in tone, the exchange began with participants throwing Marlon Kuzmick’s softball question right back at him.
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Arts & Culture
Beneath the ‘Surface’
Keynote speaker Professor Giuliana Bruno will launch the Harvard Film and Visual Studies Department’s inaugural graduate conference, April 10-12 at the Carpenter Center, with a discussion of her new book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.”
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Nation & World
Crisis review
The “swarm intelligence” that guides flocks of birds was evident in the extraordinary response to last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, attendees were told at a Harvard-sponsored symposium.
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Nation & World
Power suits
Harvard President Drew Faust convened a panel of top female leaders in media, business, and government to talk about the evolving role of women, and the challenges as well as opportunities facing women today.
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Arts & Culture
Virtues of doom
Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt addressed the comforts of tragedy at the Cambridge Public Library.
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Nation & World
Changing the climate of environmental law
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the ensuing reorganization of the Department of the Interior, Frances Ulmer, a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, turned to Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
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Nation & World
A God of heft
The man dubbed President Obama’s pastor, Joshua DuBois, said in a lecture that he is dismayed that Americans turn to God to resolve “infinitesimally small” questions not worthy of the Almighty.
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Campus & Community
Hidden in plain sight
Utopian worlds, sign-language poetry, and DNA origami — the subjects are as fascinating and varied as the students who explore them. The Carpenter Center presents “From Here,” an exhibition of thesis projects by seven graduating seniors from VES. The exhibit continues through May 29.
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Arts & Culture
Lessons, warnings in a centuries-old peace
Historians will gather at Harvard on April 11 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Congress of Vienna.
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Science & Tech
Progress on sustainability
Harvard University has made significant progress in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released by President Drew Faust, who announced the next steps that the institution will take to meet its goal of cutting emissions 30 percent by 2016.
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Campus & Community
Fund to tackle climate change
In an effort to catalyze research into sustainable energy sources, Harvard President Drew Faust has challenged University friends and alumni to raise a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund and seed new approaches to confronting the threat of climate change.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to sign on to United Nations-supported Principles For Responsible Investment
Harvard today announced its decision to sign on to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), becoming the first university endowment in the United States to join the organization. The PRI is recognized as the leading global network for investors who are committed to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment…