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Campus & Community
Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87
Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
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Campus & Community
Harvard basketball prepares for March Madness
The men’s basketball team at Harvard University returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1946.
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Campus & Community
The Meaning of Life – Jill Lepore – Harvard Thinks Big
Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History
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Science & Tech
Harvard heads Southwest
More than 300 Harvard alumni, students, and guests gathered at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Sunday for “Digital Harvard in Austin,” a first-of-its-kind event sponsored by Alumni Affairs & Development.
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Nation & World
Investigative journalism, alive and well
Investigative reporting is an increasingly rare luxury for many news organizations. A Shorenstein Center roundtable featuring the finalists for the Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism proved that with resources, hard work, and collaboration, the craft can thrive.
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Nation & World
What helps low-income students
During a discussion at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp defended her initiative, which places recent college graduates as teachers in underserved communities for two years.
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Health
A therapist at your fingertips
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Harvard are exploring the use of gamelike programs on smartphones to treat anxiety disorders.
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Nation & World
The record of Japanese disaster
Harvard experts were among the lead organizers of a major effort to construct a multimedia archive of last year’s devastating earthquake and aftermath in Japan. The site goes live this week.
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Health
Red meat raises red flags
A new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers has found that red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to meet Vanderbilt
The Harvard men’s basketball team was awarded a 12 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament and will travel to Albuquerque, N.M., to take on No. 5 Vanderbilt in the second round, the NCAA announced Sunday.
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Campus & Community
Men’s hockey makes ECAC semifinals
David Valek scored a hat trick, and Alex Killorn added two goals and two assists to lead the Harvard men’s hockey team to an 8-2 win against rival Yale on Sunday in the deciding game of an ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series.
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Nation & World
The parenting divide
As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Pei-Chia Lan is exploring how Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants negotiate cultural differences in child rearing and how they parent transnationally.
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Science & Tech
To help the environment, manufacture
An American manufacturing revival is needed if the United States is to transform its energy mix at the scale necessary to blunt coming climate change, the former chairman of the Sierra Club said in a Harvard University Center for the Environment discussion on the future of energy.
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Campus & Community
CUNY Law School honors Gates
Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored at City University of New York School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law Association Gala and Auction benefit March 23.
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Campus & Community
REAI grants open for applications
The Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard is offering its second round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.
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Science & Tech
Magnetism on the moon
A team of researchers from Harvard, MIT, and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris have proposed a surprisingly simple explanation for magnetic anomalies that have baffled scientists since the mid-1960s, suggesting they are remnants of a massive asteroid. As described in a paper published in Science, the researchers believe an asteroid slammed into…
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Campus & Community
Housing Day at Harvard
We take a fresh look at Housing Day, one of the many hallowed traditions at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Innovators – Innovation at Harvard
Throughout the Harvard community, students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working every day across disciplines and around the globe to generate innovative ideas and solutions. Here are just a few examples.
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Campus & Community
Incubator of Innovation – Innovation at Harvard
Medicine, business, politics….You never know where the spark of innovation may originate at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Nature by Design – Innovation at Harvard
What can termites teach us about building complex computer systems?
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Campus & Community
Fountain of Youth – Innovation at Harvard
Our bodies repair and regenerate with the help of compound structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres. But as these telomeres weaken, we age. Harvard swimmer Meaghan Leddy COL ’12 explains how Harvard scientists are exploring ways to reverse the symptoms of aging by increasing the levels of a certain enzyme to keep our…
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Campus & Community
Getting with the Program – Innovation at Harvard
Students from all disciplines flock to Computer Science 1, or “CS50,” one of the most popular offerings at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Bench to Bedside – Innovation at Harvard
Harvard researchers and clinicians collaborate across disciplines and around the globe to craft solutions to the world’s toughest health challenges.
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Campus & Community
On the Cutting Edge of History – Innovation at Harvard
Jeremy Geidt, lecturer on dramatic arts and senior actor at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), recounts a few memorable moments in Harvard’s history.
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Campus & Community
Growing Upwards – Innovation at Harvard
The roots of innovation at Harvard can often be found in its students.
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Campus & Community
A peek at Harvard’s future
Maya Jasanoff and her faculty colleagues gathered at the Tsai Auditorium on Feb. 16 and March 7 to consider how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) may look in a generation. The discussions were part of the Conversations @ FAS series, which this year asks some of Harvard’s leading scholars to imagine the faculty…
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Campus & Community
Innovation Motivation – Innovation at Harvard
In lecture halls, laboratories, and spaces across Harvard, dedicated teachers including Kevin Kit Parker, Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, are creating fertile environments for innovation, championing bold ideas and encouraging students to think in new ways.
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Campus & Community
A New Way to Look at the Past – Innovation at Harvard
In a powerful new approach to scholarship, researchers at Harvard are creating a digital “fossil record” of human culture by tracking the frequency with which words appear in digitized books. Culturomics, a…
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Campus & Community
Jasanoff’s ‘Liberty’ recognized
On Thursday, the National Book Critics Circle recognized Harvard Professor Maya Jasanoff with its award for general nonfiction for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War” (Knopf).
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Campus & Community
Giza in Another Dimension – Innovation at Harvard
What if you could enter a decorated tomb chapel in a Giza pyramid, descend down an ancient burial shaft, or see 5,000-year-old inscriptions come to life—without ever having to travel?