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Health
Deciding to go left or right
Researchers in a Harvard lab have developed a device, dubbed LADY GAGA, that allows them for the first time to precisely control airborne scents. They have used the device in their work unraveling how animals make navigational decisions based on their environment.
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Health
Right time for ‘end-of-life’ talk
A study by Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute finds that most terminally ill cancer patients discuss end-of-life care with physicians but that such discussions often occur late in their illness.
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Nation & World
In the end, Somali famine preventable
Despite historical links to natural disasters, the modern world’s global food web means that famines today are created more by man than by nature. Officials say a famine just ending in Somalia was caused by a failure of international early warning systems and the local Al-Shabaab militia blocking food aid.
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Arts & Culture
The melding of American music
Backed by an all-star band, Wynton Marsalis explored the “mulatto identity of our national music” with a rollicking performance and a thoughtful lecture on America’s porous tuneful genres at Sanders Theatre Feb. 6.
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Nation & World
Duncan urges experiments in education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for large-scale educational reform during a talk at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
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Nation & World
Putting history on trial
Historians can prove useful in a courtroom, a case involving Kenyan abuse reveals, and they can learn a lot too.
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Campus & Community
‘Beautiful building’ recognized
Harvard University’s newest residential building at 10 Akron St. in Cambridge has won the Harleston Parker Medal for 2011 as “the single most beautiful building or other structure” recently built in metropolitan Boston.
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Nation & World
New initiative for better teaching
The Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching sponsored a daylong conference that united experts and scholars from the University and beyond to debate, discuss, and share ideas on innovative pedagogy.
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Campus & Community
Reaffirming bonds in India
Over the past several years, Harvard University has been ramping up its involvement in India and South Asia.
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Nation & World
The revolution continues
In a conversation that ranged from the recent parliamentary elections to the ongoing sexual abuse of women to a new wave of journalists, panelists at the Feb. 2 Harvard Kennedy School Forum on Egypt expressed both fear and hope for a country still in the midst of a revolution.
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Science & Tech
For cutting-edge biomedical materials, try corn
One might expect, these days, to find corn products in food, fuel, and fabric, but a corn-based glue that can heal an injured eyeball? That’s a-maize-ing.
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Health
The search for life’s stirrings
As science wrestles with the problem of how life arose on Earth, hindsight shows that seemingly intractable obstacles can have simple, even elegant solutions, said Nobel laureate Jack Szostak.
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Campus & Community
A welcome for Man of the Year
Harvard students and staff were drawn to Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year, actor and writer Jason Segel, when he visited Harvard on Friday.
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Campus & Community
Tommy Lee Jones named Arts Medalist
Actor and director Tommy Lee Jones ’69 is the recipient of the 2012 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Faust on April 26.
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Nation & World
Experts assess impact of Citizens United
At an event sponsored by the Harvard Law School (HLS) American Constitution Society on Tuesday, HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig, author of “Republic Lost,” and Jeff Clements, author of “Corporations Are Not People,” reviewed the impact that Citizens United has had on the political process.
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Campus & Community
Bunches of support
Harvard’s 25th annual Daffodil Days campaign to help raise money for the American Cancer Society is under way through March 1, with gifts scheduled for delivery on March 19.
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Campus & Community
Finalists named for Goldsmith Prize
Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Arts & Culture
A jewel in the light of Tel Aviv
With a new museum wing in Tel Aviv, a Harvard architect offers a middle-ground paradigm for buildings that display art.
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Health
Making the worms turn
Biophysicist Aravinthan Samuel has developed new techniques to monitor and influence the behavior of roundworms to learn how their basic nervous systems work, a first step to understanding the circuitry in more complex creatures, like humans.
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Science & Tech
As strong as an insect’s shell
Wyss Institute scientists have created a material that mimics the hard outer skin of bugs. The result is low-cost and easily manufactured, and tough. It eventually might provide a more environmentally friendly alternative to plastic.
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Arts & Culture
Sensibly saving Jane Austen
Two of Jane Austen’s letters — thousands of which were written but only dozens of which were preserved — undergo careful repairs at Harvard, where they reside at Houghton Library.
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Nation & World
Up by his bootstraps
Cambodian writer Tararith Kho, who grew up amid war and pushed relentlessly to be educated, is now a Harvard Scholars at Risk fellow. His weapons are well-turned words.
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Health
Blood test for depression?
The initial assessment of a blood test to help diagnose major depressive disorder indicates it may become a useful clinical tool.
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Campus & Community
Finding a place in research
A Harvard undergrad sees her work at Radcliffe with visiting fellows as pivotal to her academic development.
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Campus & Community
Neighbors for the 21st century
Once a club for faculty wives, the century-old Harvard Neighbors has evolved into one of the most diverse community organizations on campus, and an informal welcoming committee for international staff and scholars and their families.
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Campus & Community
Helping scholars find library nooks
Ask any graduate student: Sometimes the right work ethic depends on snaring the perfect study space. Ann-Marie Costa, along with a team of Widener Library and Berkman Center staff, developed an online solution that simplified the process of booking carrels.
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Health
Triumphs against smallpox, polio, AIDS
Harvard researchers have been at the forefront of many battles against devastating diseases, leading pivotal breakthroughs against scourges from 1800 to the present.
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Campus & Community
Basketball, with perspective
Crimson forward Victoria Lippert, set to pass the 1,000-point scoring milestone, has other interests too, ranging from volunteer work to crime-fighting technology.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Radcliffe Quad
Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses border the Quad, but mostly it belongs to Cabot House, which has residences on three of the four sides.
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Health
Decoding keys to a healthy life
Now 74 years young, the Harvard Study of Adult Development continues to yield a treasure trove of data about how people behave, and change — including predictions of strong indicators to a happy life.
