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Campus & Community
The right way to report wrongdoing
The University’s comprehensive new policy on whistleblowing aims to make reporting legal or ethical breaches both safe and easy for all members of the Harvard community.
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Arts & Culture
Arts prove intensive
Across campus, students participated in a series of arts intensives during January’s Wintersession that let them tap their creative talents.
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Health
PFCs may hinder vaccine response
Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), widely used in manufactured products such as non-stick cookware, waterproof clothing, and fast-food packaging, were associated with lowered immune response to vaccinations in children in research led by Philippe Grandjean of the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Science & Tech
With a little help from our ancient friends
The social networks of the Hadza, a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, show evidence that many elements of social network structure may have been present at an early point in human history.
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Campus & Community
Helen Whitney to deliver Noble Lectures
Award-winning producer, director, and writer Helen Whitney will deliver this year’s William Belden Noble Lectures at the Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
Straus Center curator recognized
Francesca Bewer has won the 2012 College Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation.
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Nation & World
North Korea: Country behind a curtain
Many nations are watching the succession of Kim Jong-un to the leadership of North Korea, hoping a smooth transition will lead to economic reforms and opportunities to limit the further development of nuclear weapons, a Harvard panel said.
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Science & Tech
Scourge source
New research at Harvard explains how bacterial biofilms expand on teeth, pipes, surgical instruments, and crops.
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Nation & World
Choice management
In a paper published last year, Harvard professors David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian argued that employers should design investment menus for their employees that facilitate good choices, “rather than assuming that giving people every option under the sun will lead to the right decision.” The report, co-authored with James Choi of Yale, was recently honored…
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein Center welcomes six spring fellows
Six new fellows will join the Shorenstein Center this spring.
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Campus & Community
Jason Segel named Man of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named Jason Segel as its 2012 Man of the Year.
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Arts & Culture
Writing, clear and simple
Clarity and simplicity are frequent themes in the Harvard College Winter Writing Program, a two-week Winter Break seminar where undergraduate nonfiction writers learn from some of the country’s best authors, teachers, and journalists.
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Health
A winter wellness workout
Dozens of Harvard undergraduates started the year with a new emphasis on wellness, thanks to the Optimal Health program. With presentations from a lifestyle medicine consultant, a nutritionist, a personal trainer, a sleep specialist, and a stress manager, Optimal Health emphasized prevention and fitness.
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Nation & World
Your grandparents’ Tea Party
To conservatives, the Tea Partiers are patriots; to liberals, they’re a scourge on progress and civil society. Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, used different terms to describe the activists to undergraduates: grandma and grandpa.
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Arts & Culture
Devoted to the stage
Anatoly Smeliansky is the founding director of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. As part of the program, he is spending the month at Harvard leading a series of classes on the history of theater and drama.
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Nation & World
Putting yourself out there
Sponsored by the Harvard Club of Boston and the Harvard Alumni Association, “Networking NOW: The Learn-How-to-Network Event” was a multifaceted event, underscoring how business networking is a skill that can be learned, practiced, honed, and perfected.
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Campus & Community
Danes named Woman of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals names actress Claire Danes as its 2012 Woman of the Year.
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Arts & Culture
A key to modernity
Rummaging through worm-eaten layers of parchment at a monastery in southern Germany in 1417, the scribe Poggio Bracciolini discovered a poem titled “De Rerum Natura,” or “On the Nature of Things,” by the Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus. On that day, according to Professor Stephen Greenblatt, history swerved and modernity began.
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Nation & World
A symposium on teaching, learning
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, created with a $40 million gift from Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, will host a symposium to explore excellence and innovation in the field.
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Campus & Community
NAS honors four faculty
Michael J. Hopkins, Jonathan B. Losos, Andrew H. Knoll, and Jason P. Mitchell have been honored by the National Academy of Sciences for their extraordinary scientific achievements.
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Campus & Community
Great Teachers trailer
A preview of Harvard University’s “Great Teachers” series which will be launched in March of 2012.
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Health
Enlightened eating
Color-coded food labeling and adjusting the way food items are positioned in display cases encouraged healthy choices in a large hospital cafeteria in a study by MGH researchers.
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Science & Tech
Planets, planets everywhere
The rapid rise in discoveries of planets circling other stars is changing astronomers’ views of the galaxy and the Earth’s place in it, giving impetus to the search for extraterrestrial life, astronomer and Radcliffe Fellow Ray Jayawardhana says.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Allston Partnership Fund awards $100,000 to Allston-Brighton nonprofits
The Harvard Allston Partnership Fund (HAPF) today announced that nine local nonprofits will receive grants totaling $100,000 to support programs in the Allston-Brighton community. The HAPF recognizes and supports organizations that provide Allston-Brighton residents with youth enrichment, educational programs, and engaging activities for the elderly and people with disabilities.
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Science & Tech
Taste test
Using friendship data collected from Facebook, Harvard sociologists have found that people who share similar interests in music and movies are more likely to befriend one another, but that very few interests are likely to spread among friends.
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Health
Clues to addiction
Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors that range from learning to drug use, a finding that could open the door to new treatments for addiction.
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Campus & Community
Breaking away
Harvard College officials applaud students who choose to spend Winter Break away from campus, where they can recharge and reconnect with loved ones. Officials say that the “nothing” that undergraduates often think they’re doing — sleeping, eating well, and tending to relationships — is actually vital for academic success, and for physical and mental health.
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Campus & Community
Land-use law pioneer, Charles M. Haar, 91
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus Charles M. Haar ’48, a pioneer in land-use law whose scholarship focused on laws and institutions of city planning, urban development, and environmental issues, died on Jan. 10.
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Campus & Community
March memorial for Norman Ramsey
The Department of Physics will host a memorial ceremony for Nobel laureate and former physics professor Norman Ramsey.
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Campus & Community
Men’s basketball on a roll
Coach Tommy Amaker and his Harvard men’s basketball team began the second half of their breakout season with a 15-2 record and the University’s first national ranking in the sport. The passionate group of young men, led by captains Keith Wright ’12 and Oliver McNally ’12, has been playing in front of boisterous, sell-out crowds…