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Science & Tech
Managing just fine
Measurements of stress hormones and self-reports of anxiety show that leaders in stable organizations experience less stress than their subordinates, likely because they have greater control over their office lives.
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Health
Pecking order
Harvard researchers have found that a new investigation of tissues and signaling pathways in finches’ beaks reveals surprising flexibility in the birds’ evolutionary tool kit.
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Campus & Community
Mathews and Wells elected to Harvard Corporation
Jessica Tuchman Mathews and Theodore V. Wells Jr. have been elected to become the newest members of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the Harvard Corporation), the University announced today.
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Arts & Culture
The literary landscape
Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, the Literary Homecoming drew representatives from the English Department, the Harvard Review, the Harvard Advocate, Speak Out Loud, Tuesday magazine, among others.
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Campus & Community
A president next door
Harvard President Drew Faust — with a mischievous gift in tow — helped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology welcome its new president, L. Rafael Reif, at his inauguration on Friday.
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Arts & Culture
The tale of Benny and Jenny
In the first lecture of the season’s American Literature and Culture Series, Harvard history Professor Jill Lepore previews her book on Jane Franklin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s little-known yet favored sister.
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Nation & World
A firm voice on Europe
Jan Fischer, former PM and current presidential candidate in the Czech Republic, talked to a Harvard audience about the debt crisis and the possibility of a full European federation.
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Campus & Community
A welcome from John Harvard
In honor of Rafael Reif’s inauguration as the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the iconic John Harvard Statue seated in Harvard Yard was decked out with an MIT cap, scarf, and pennant.
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Health
For a health reform model, try Brazil
Scholars and public health experts gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to examine Brazil’s progress toward meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development goals, and to see if there are lessons that can be applied to other countries.
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Nation & World
Middle East in motion
Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, journalist Rami Khouri presented an overview of the “bewildering and exhilarating changes” that have swept the Middle East since the Arab Spring.
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Arts & Culture
Mighty exhibit
Roberto Mighty’s exhibit, “First Contact,” opens Sept. 23 with a one-time film screening and an artist presentation. The exhibit is the culmination of Mighty’s yearlong artist residency at the Harvard Forest. The exhibit continues through October.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 19
At its second meeting of the year on Sept. 19, the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian for the 2012-13 academic year. They also heard a preview of the Dean’s Annual Report to the faculty and presentations on academic integrity, Harvard’s international strategy, and edX.
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Science & Tech
Spoiled opportunity
Republican objections to a climate change “tax” have stained the cap-and-trade approach to tackling climate change, making it politically unpalatable, even though it proved effective at fighting acid rain over the past two decades.
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Health
Rapid acts of kindness
In a series of experiments, Harvard researchers found that people who make quick decisions act less selfishly than those who deliberate.
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Arts & Culture
The sacred Toni Morrison
The Harvard Divinity School has organized a series of working groups to explore the religious dimensions of the work of author Toni Morrison in the lead-up to her Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.
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Nation & World
Explaining the baby bust
Postindustrial countries from Japan to Italy are experiencing startling low birthrates, but the entry of women into the workforce isn’t to blame, according to Sociology Professor Mary Brinton, whose research looks at more subtle factors, including attitudes toward men’s and women’s roles in the workplace and the home.
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Science & Tech
Emergency planning
Six of Harvard’s deep thinkers on climate change and sustainability took the stage Sept. 18 in the second annual Harvard Thinks Green.
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Arts & Culture
Death and the Civil War
Filmmaker Ric Burns, Harvard President Drew Faust, and scholars screened and discussed “Death and the Civil War,” a PBS documentary based on Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.”
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Nation & World
A warning from inside Tunisia
A Tunisian constitutional expert said Sept. 17 that recent violence, coupled with moves by the ruling Islamist Ennahda party to enshrine religion in the nation’s new constitution, are a bad sign for a pluralistic, democratic future.
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Nation & World
Suggestion of a married Jesus
Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, a Harvard professor says.
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Campus & Community
Spend an evening with champions
More than a dozen world-class figure skaters will take to the ice for a cause later this month as part of the 43rd annual An Evening with Champions.
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Health
Targeting childhood obesity early
With childhood obesity now affecting 17 percent of American children, the nation is rallying around the concept that serious action is required. Harvard researchers have identified some key triggers for obesity in early childhood.
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Nation & World
“Jesus said to them, my wife”
Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, Harvard Professor Karen King told the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies, September 18, 2012.
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Nation & World
Poverty in America, 2012
Scholars from across the nation gathered at Harvard on Friday to examine the persistent problems of race, poverty, and economic inequality in the United States. The conference was focused around the 25th anniversary of the publication of “The Truly Disadvantaged” by University Professor William Julius Wilson.
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Campus & Community
Yard full of fun
The College Events Board welcomed back Harvard students on Friday with its annual outdoor festival. This year’s event transformed Harvard Yard into a carnival, complete with a bounce house, dunk tank, games, music, and carnival food.
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Arts & Culture
Best practices writ large
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen has built a storied career by, as he puts it, telling business leaders not what to think, but how to think about running their companies. In the two years since suffering a stroke, he’s tackled two other equally ambitious tasks: relearning how to speak, and teaching the rest of us how…
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Campus & Community
From library to living room
The newly renovated first floor of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) was unveiled Wednesday night. The space was completely changed and updated over the summer as part of the College’s efforts to enhance undergraduate social spaces.
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Campus & Community
Feeding culinary curiosity: kids’ science and cooking
Boston and Cambridge students between the ages of 9 and 12 take part in “Kids’ Science and Cooking,” a new program hosted by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in cooperation with ChopChop, a nonprofit cooking magazine for kids.
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Arts & Culture
Hip-hop and spoken word at Harvard
Harvard Law School graduate Bryonn Bain brings his dynamic teaching style to campus this fall with his new course “Hip Hop and the Spoken Word: Theater Performance Laboratory.”
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Nation & World
Block the vote
Should citizens have to show photo identification to vote? In recent years, many states have decided they do. A group of panelists debated the hotly partisan issue — and the possible implications for poor and elderly voters — at Harvard Kennedy School.
