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Campus & Community
Charles M. Williams dies at 94
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Charles M. Williams, a renowned authority on commercial banking and a master of the art of case method teaching who influenced the lives and careers of thousands of M.B.A. students and executives around the world, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 17. He was 94.
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Campus & Community
Harvard men win Battle 4 Atlantis
The Harvard men’s basketball team bested Central Florida, 59-49, in the championship game of the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis tournament Nov. 26.
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Science & Tech
Imaging instruction
Harvard researchers have developed a “primer” to identify some of the most useful probes for super-resolution imaging. As described recently on Nature Methods’ website, the work also identified the key characteristics that are important for imaging, giving researchers a framework for evaluating other probes, or even designing custom-made molecules to use in imaging.
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Science & Tech
A road map to cleaner energy
A new report by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs recommends transforming the U.S. energy picture by nearly doubling funding for U.S. energy technology research and instituting incentives for adopting cleaner technologies, such as a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions.
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Health
Rebuilding the brain’s circuitry
Harvard scientists have rebuilt genetically diseased circuitry in a section of the mouse hypothalamus, an area controlling obesity and energy balance, demonstrating that complex and intricately wired circuitry of the brain long considered incapable of cellular repair can be rewired with the right type of neuronal “replacement parts.”
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Health
Alleviating radiation sickness
A combination of two drugs may alleviate radiation sickness in people who have been exposed to high levels of radiation, even when the therapy is given a day after the exposure occurred, according to a study led by scientists from Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Children’s Hospital Boston.
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Health
Canned soup linked to higher BPA levels
A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health has found that the volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five days had a more than 1,000 percent increase in urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations compared with the group who consumed fresh soup daily for five days. The…
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Campus & Community
A season of helping
The 2011 campaign for Harvard Community Gifts is under way, with a blend of Harvard traditions and new opportunities.
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Arts & Culture
Faust digs Gen Ed
President Drew Faust paid a visit Nov. 17 to the popular undergraduate course anthropology 1010: “The Fundamentals of Archaeological Methods and Reasoning.” Faust’s attendance was inspired by a special meeting of the course at the Harvard Ceramics Studio, where students learned how pottery is made, and got to try their hands at making their own…
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Science & Tech
From marsh to Yard
Students digging in Harvard Yard uncovered a major feature in the final days before the site had to be filled: a stone-lined trench that likely began the conversion of the marshy area to the high and dry land of today.
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Campus & Community
Rhodes to success
Four Harvard seniors — Sam Galler, Spencer Lenfield, Brett Rosenberg, and Victor Yang — were named 2012 American Rhodes Scholars, one of the most prestigious academic awards in the world, with just 32 selected annually.
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Nation & World
Gingrich opposes campaign limits
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, speaking at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, says the political system would run more smoothly if campaign donors could contribute what they wish.
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Science & Tech
Where wild food matters
A postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Center for the Environment, Christopher Golden, is the lead author of a paper. It says that in societies where people rely on bush meat for important micronutrients, people’s lost access to wildlife could hurt children’s health
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Campus & Community
Connie Wong to talk leadership
On Dec. 15 Connie Wong will present “Inclusive Leadership: Managing Successful Teams,” as part of the FAS series Diversity Dialogues.
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Campus & Community
Early Action returns
A total of 4,245 students have applied, and this year’s applicant pool is considerably more diverse ethnically and socioeconomically than that of any previous Early Action cycle.
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Nation & World
Anita Hill looks back, and ahead
Legal scholar Anita Hill discussed her experience during the 1991 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the civil rights work that it inspired.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Innovation Lab Opens in Allston
The lab includes academic space, such as classrooms and meeting areas for both undergraduate and graduate students. It also provides public areas and meeting rooms designed to foster project work, as well as business development resources for Allston-Brighton and greater Boston — a population full of entrepreneurs that Harvard seeks to both help and tap…
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Campus & Community
Harvard wins The Game, 45-7, over Yale
Harvard fell behind by a touchdown before flexing its muscle as the Ivy League champion Crimson cruised past Yale, 45-7, at Yale Bowl in the 128th edition of The Game.
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Health
Slowing ALS symptom progression
Harvard researchers find that treatment with dexpramipexole — a novel drug believed to prevent dysfunction of mitochondria, the subcellular structures that provide most of a cell’s energy — appears to slow symptom progression in the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Campus & Community
Four seniors named Rhodes Scholars
Four Harvard undergraduates are among the 32 American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars on Saturday. They will begin their studies at the University of Oxford next October.
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Campus & Community
Harvard responds to tragedy in New Haven
Harvard expresses sympathy regarding the tragic death this morning before the Harvard-Yale football game and concern for those injured.
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Health
Actually, the star’s a turkey
Visiting Professor Pamela Diggle took listeners into the botanical roots of Thanksgiving dinner, illustrating how nature’s everyday trials forced plants to come up with unusual — and delicious — ways to survive.
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Nation & World
Introducing the i-lab
The Harvard Innovation Lab officially opened to the public Nov. 18. The ribbon cutters included President Drew Faust and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard and slavery
A student research project and a resulting booklet and website bring to light some troubling connections to the College in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Campus & Community
Italian honor
Martin Karplus, Theodore William Richards Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Professeur Conventionne at the Universite de Strasbourg, has been awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize in Chemistry by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The award was presented at the Academy in Rome on Nov. 11.
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Campus & Community
‘House, Home’ and the spaces between
A new art show at the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) Penthouse Gallery not only explores concepts of house and home, but homelessness as well.
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Nation & World
Moot points, well made
The Harvard Law School teams in the showdown round of the Ames Moot Court Competition tried to persuade a panel headed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to change the law of the land.
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Nation & World
Conservatism is in ‘crisis’
Andrew Sullivan, political commentator and blogger with The Daily Beast, gave the 2011 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Innovation Lab opens
Harvard University officially launches the Harvard Innovation Lab today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and remarks by President Drew Faust, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, and Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. The ceremony will be followed by an open house and self-guided tours of the Allston facility.
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Campus & Community
A National Book Award
“The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt’s book describing how an ancient Roman philosophical epic helped pave the way for modern thought, has won the National Book Award for nonfiction.
