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Campus & Community
A look inside: Cabot House
In Cabot House, a new café quickly becomes a familiar gathering place.
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Nation & World
Harvard goes to war
Harvard University’s expansive role in World War II, from research to recruits, helped the Allies to triumph.
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Nation & World
To honor the living and the dead
A ceremony on 11/11/11 at the Memorial Church will dedicate a tablet honoring Harvard’s 17 Medal of Honor recipients and also will celebrate the return of an ROTC presence to campus.
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Arts & Culture
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science
Happiness — how do we get it, how do we keep it, and where does it come from? Distinguished visiting fellow Sissela Bok plumbs the theories of philosophers, neuroscientists, and other specialists, and synthesizes her research into a comprehensive overview of the subject.
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Campus & Community
A step up through Year Up
In the Year Up program, high school graduates and GED recipients are provided with six months of training in professional skills and education, followed by six-month internships at their corporate partners, including Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
On the side of the angels
In his latest book, psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker cites data to show that the world is becoming far more peaceful than you might have thought.
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Arts & Culture
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School Calestous Juma presents three opportunities that can transform African agriculture: advances in science and technology; the creation of regional markets; and the emergence of entrepreneurial leaders dedicated to the continent’s economic improvement.
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Campus & Community
Ihor Ševčenko
The news of Ihor Ševčenko’s death, on the day after Christmas 2009, elicited a spontaneous international reaction that befitted his stature as a towering intellect and hugely admired scholar in the fields of Byzantine and pre-modern Slavic studies.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s startup upstart
Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, has ideas on how to foster an entrepreneurial mentality at the country’s oldest university.
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Nation & World
Travel as its own education
A Harvard undergrad explains how visiting other lands has helped to shape her College experience.
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Campus & Community
Learning about research
Nearly 150 Harvard undergraduates spent 10 weeks last summer learning the nuts and bolts of academic research — from ethnography to techniques for culturing living tissue — with faculty in three immersive programs.
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Arts & Culture
Treasure island
Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.
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Arts & Culture
The history at Houghton
Houghton, a template for university literary archives everywhere, also has room for the odd: A Thoreau pencil, a Dickinson teacup, and more.
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Nation & World
‘One country, two systems’
Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang touts onetime Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s “one country, two systems” philosophy for his area’s economic fortitude.
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Arts & Culture
Creative force
Leaders in the growing field of artist-endowed foundations discussed the challenges and goals of their work in a panel talk at the Sackler Museum.
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Science & Tech
Bright idea
In a new paper, Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Edwin Turner of Princeton University suggest a new technique for finding aliens: Look for their city lights.
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Campus & Community
Drive, they said
After winning a share of the Ivy League championship last season and setting a program record for wins, Harvard’s men’s basketball team looks to build on its success when the season starts Nov. 11 against M.I.T.
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Campus & Community
All in the Harvard family
The WATCH Portal, a new online child-care service, aims to connect Harvard parents with a vast pool of potential babysitters, from undergraduates and graduate students to the teenage children of employees.
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Nation & World
Status quo blues
Americans suffering through a fourth year of economic hardship and worried about the future are closer than ever to casting aside both major political parties in favor of a post-partisan ticket in the 2012 presidential race, a panel of political experts told an audience at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
Legacy of an Indonesian tsunami
A five-year follow-up study of children orphaned by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami says that older children and younger girls were most affected, with lower school achievement, higher rates of work outside the home for boys, and earlier marriage and work inside the home for girls.
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Health
Effective treatment of painkiller addiction
Individuals addicted to prescription painkillers are more likely to succeed in treatment with the aid of the medication buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone), report McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers.
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Campus & Community
Zuckerberg ‘friends’ Harvard during visit
Mark Zuckerberg returned to campus Nov. 7 to recruit computer science students for jobs and internships at Facebook, the popular social networking site that he created when he was a Harvard undergraduate.
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Campus & Community
Loyalty rewarded
Harvard-supported Library Park in Allston was renamed Raymond V. Mellone Park at a Nov. 5 event hosted by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
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Health
Why cooking counts
In a first-of-its-kind study, Harvard researchers have shown that cooked meat provides more energy than raw meat, a finding that challenges the current food labeling system and suggests humans are evolutionarily adapted to take advantage of the benefits of cooking.
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Campus & Community
Coach Murphy sets a record
Tim Murphy, the Thomas Stephenson Family head Coach for Harvard football, became the School’s all-time winningest football coach as his Crimson cruised past Columbia, 35-21, Saturday at Lawrence Wien Stadium. Murphy surpassed Joe Restic’s mark of 117 career wins and heads into the Penn game with an all-time record of 118-58 in his 18th season…
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Campus & Community
HBS’s Paul. R. Lawrence, 89
Paul R. Lawrence, a renowned sociologist and a pivotal figure in the intellectual history of Harvard Business School (HBS), died Nov. 1 in Bedford, Mass. He was 89. A memorial service will be held on Nov. 8 at 11 a.m. in the Story Chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
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Science & Tech
Tracing biological pathways
A new chemical process developed by a team of Harvard researchers may increase the utility of positron emission tomography (PET) in creating real-time 3-D images of chemical processes occurring inside the human body.
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Campus & Community
Corporation committees up and running
A major conclusion of the Harvard Corporation’s 2010 governance review came to fruition earlier this fall, with the launch of committees on governance, finance, and facilities and capital planning, as well as a joint governing boards committee on alumni affairs and development.
