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Health
Genetic link between fried foods and obesity?
Harvard researchers have released the first study to show that the adverse effects of fried foods may vary depending on the genetic makeup of the individual.
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Health
Too sweet for our own good
Even the “healthy” fruit drinks that Americans sip are packed with the amount of sugar contained in six cookies. That love affair is making us sick.
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Arts & Culture
A new chapter in verse
The Woodberry Poetry Room is sponsoring a series focused on rethinking the possibilities of the creative-writing workshop.
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Campus & Community
Men’s basketball readies for Cincinnati
The Harvard men’s basketball team received a 12 seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament and will face 5th-seeded Cincinnati in the second round Thursday at 2:10 p.m. The game will be televised live on TNT.
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Health
Secrets of the narwhal tusk
The narwhal tusk has now been mapped, showing a pathway between the spiral tooth and the narwhal brain. The study reflects how the mysterious animal may use its tusk to suss out its environment.
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Science & Tech
Backing the Big Bang
In breakthrough, astronomers find evidence of speedy ‘cosmic inflation’ of universe.
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Nation & World
Putin makes his move
A Q&A with Nick Burns of Harvard Kennedy School on what’s likely to happen next in Ukraine and in the standoff with its neighbor Russia.
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Arts & Culture
Between the lines
Three Harvard faculty members divulge an influential book in this installment of Harvard Bound.
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Nation & World
The bright side of Pakistan
A January conference in Pakistan on urbanization was the first of five in the region and a result of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s growing work there.
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Science & Tech
Putting the ‘estimate’ back in estimates
Professor M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon wants to bring the uncertainty back to forecasting, he said in a Harvard talk.
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Science & Tech
The melding of technology
Former MIT President Susan Hockfield discussed the power of technology’s ongoing convergence during a session at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Science & Tech
Roomy cages built from DNA
Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have discovered a way to build self-assembling cages made of DNA. The cages are the largest stand-alone DNA structures made to date, and one day may be able to deliver drugs or house tiny bioreactors or photonic devices inside the human body.
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Science & Tech
Wearing technology
MIT Professor Rosalind Picard and a team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a wristband that can gauge a person’s emotional response to stimuli or situations by tapping skin conductance, an indicator of the state of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s flight-or-fight response by ramping up responses like heart…
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Arts & Culture
Eyes on ‘America,’ with hope of drawing more
Christopher E.G. Benfey lectured on “America,” a wall designed by Josef Albers, as part of GSD’s “Then and Now” series.
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Campus & Community
Get up, it’s Housing Day
Freshmen, who spend their first year living in and around the Yard, are sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses on Housing Day.
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Science & Tech
A national perspective on climate change
Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication Anthony Leiserowitz spoke at a Harvard Kennedy School seminar called “Climate Change in the American Mind.”
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Campus & Community
President’s Challenge finalists announced
Ten student-led teams were announced as finalists in the third President’s Challenge at Harvard University, a competition created to foster cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial ventures that will have profound social impacts.
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Arts & Culture
Memories of Mandela
Scholars, others gathered Tuesday to reflect on the life and legacy of the late Nelson Mandela.
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Nation & World
Our nuclear insecurity
Harvard Kennedy School experts talk about recent efforts to keep nuclear materials out of terrorists’ hands in preparation for the biannual Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands.
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Science & Tech
Linking China’s climate policy to its growth
Nobel laureate Michael Spence offered some growth projections for China in a talk at the Science Center.
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Health
Imbalance in microbial population found in Crohn’s patients
A multi-institutional study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT reports that newly diagnosed Crohn’s disease patients show increased levels of harmful bacteria and reduced levels of the beneficial bacteria usually found in a healthy gastrointestinal tract.
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Science & Tech
Happy birthday, Web
The World Wide Web turns 25 this week, so the Gazette sat down with Scott Bradner, a senior technology consultant with the University who has been involved with the Internet since the early days. Bradner says government regulation is the greatest threat looming over the Net, and its spread around the world via smartphones its…
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Nation & World
Russia and rights
Two of Russia’s leading human rights lawyers visited Harvard Law School to discuss the country’s legal system and offer some hope for ways toward democratic reforms in the coming years.
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Arts & Culture
A rich artistic stew
A music professor and director of Harvard’s Studio for Electroacoustic Composition is indulging his fascination with the visual arts as part of a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute. Hans Tutschku is showing a series of photographs created in collaboration with students from Harvard’s Office for the Arts Dance Program.
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Science & Tech
Getting to the source
A team of Harvard researchers has demonstrated that the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use natural conductivity to pull electrons from minerals located remotely in soil and sediment while remaining at the surface, where it absorbs the sunlight needed to produce energy.
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Health
Toward an AIDS-free generation
AIDS researchers and medical ethicists gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to explore possible ethical issues affecting studies of promising strategies to fight the ailment.
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Campus & Community
Men’s basketball wins Ivy League crown
The Harvard men’s basketball team became the first team in the nation to punch its ticket into the NCAA tournament with a 70-58 victory at Yale on Friday night.
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Campus & Community
Delaney-Smith breaks Ivy League record
Harvard women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith earned career win No. 515 on Friday to become the all-time winning Ivy League head coach with a 69-65 victory over Yale at Lavietes Pavilion.
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Nation & World
Inspiring women
“Inspiring Change, Inspiring Us” is a series of portraits on view at Harvard Law School through March 14 in honor of International Women’s Day.
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Campus & Community
With distinction
FAS Dean Michael D. Smith recognized the hard work and contributions of 52 FAS employees during the fifth annual Dean’s Distinction Awards ceremony and reception, held in University Hall on Thursday.
