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Health
A child’s memory in military time
Harvard specialists discussed research on memory development during a seminar aimed at helping military families talk to their children about deployments and homecomings.
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Campus & Community
Achievement recognized by academy
Twenty Harvard professors are among 179 of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at an Oct. 1 ceremony in Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
For $1,000, who won on ‘Jeopardy!’?
Sure, Harvard undergraduates have the opportunity to learn from leaders in their fields, including Nobel laureates, global leaders, and world-class scholars, who all teach in the University’s classrooms. Thanks to Joon Pahk, a preceptor in physics, students can add a new academic feat to that list: seven-time “Jeopardy” champion.
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Campus & Community
$40 million gift supports new university-wide initiative for innovation in learning and teaching
Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given Harvard University $40 million to establish a new initiative that will support innovative teaching and learning across the University.
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Science & Tech
You’re not so anonymous
Prescription data stripped of identify information seems not so anonymous after all. Researcher Latanya Sweeney aims to make such personal data more secure and to provide recourse for people who are harmed by privacy breaches.
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Campus & Community
Education and innovation
Harvard University announced today that Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given the University $40 million to support excellence and innovation in learning and teaching at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Bailyn receives Samuel Eliot Morison Award
Adams University Professor Emeritus Bernard Bailyn received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the USS Constitution Museum’s highest recognition for scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Norman Paul, family therapy pioneer, 85
Norman Paul, an innovator in the use of family therapy to treat mental illness, died on Oct. 14.
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Science & Tech
Molecules as motors
Scientists from around the world gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Oct. 14 for a symposium on advancing efforts to study and design molecules as motors.
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Health
Colon cancer connection
Scientists at Harvard-afilliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute have found strikingly high levels of a bacterium in colorectal cancers, a sign that it might contribute to the disease and potentially be a key to diagnosing, preventing, and treating it.
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Campus & Community
Community Football Day scores again
Harvard Athletics issued almost 1,000 tickets to Allston and Cambridge residents for this year’s annual event on Saturday. Community Football Day gives local residents a chance to watch a game and enjoy a free lunch. Participants could also enter a raffle for gear, tickets, and gift certificates.
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Nation & World
Beyond the kitchen, to the B-School
Renowned chef Ferran Adrià visited Harvard Business School Oct. 13 to announce a challenge to business students: a competition to design the new venture that will expand his creative and culinary empire.
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Science & Tech
New sources near for biofuels
Researchers are making progress in creating a biofuels process that will allow the use of tough-to-digest cellulose produced by hardy grasses that can be grown on marginal land around the world, the head of the Energy Biosciences Institute said Oct. 13 during a presentation at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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Campus & Community
Settling in, stretching out
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and University President Drew Faust welcomed the families of first-year undergraduates to campus Oct. 14 for the start of Freshman Parents Weekend, a two-day program of lectures, tours, and open houses.
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Campus & Community
Exemplary service
Dorothy Stoneman ’63 accepted the 2011 Robert Coles “Call of Service” award from the Phillips Brooks House Association Oct. 15 at the Memorial Church. The award recognized Stoneman’s achievements as the founder and chief executive officer of YouthBuild USA.
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Campus & Community
Beautifying dorm grounds
More than a half-dozen freshmen joined Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, Freshman Dean Thomas A. Dingman, and members of the College’s operations staff to create garden spaces in the areas between Greenough and Hurlbut Halls, and the dean’s office. The landscaping project was part of a new push to get students involved in the campus community.
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Campus & Community
Know your gnomon
Professor John Huth of Harvard’s Department of Physics gave a one-hour overview of his popular General Education course, “Primitive Navigation,” to freshmen and their families on Oct. 14. The talk was part of the annual Freshman Parents Weekend program of lectures, tours, and open houses.
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Campus & Community
Harvard 375th – History in Photographs
A look back at photographs of Harvard through the years.
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Campus & Community
Alumni honored with Hiram Hunn Award
The Harvard Admissions Office has recognized select alumni with the Hiram Hunn Award.
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Health
Initiative challenges drug crisis
Taking aim at the alarming slowdown in the development of new and lifesaving drugs, Harvard Medical School is launching the Initiative in Systems Pharmacology, a comprehensive strategy to transform drug discovery by convening biologists, chemists, pharmacologists, physicists, computer scientists, and clinicians to explore together how drugs work in complex systems.
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Nation & World
Wanted: Ways to battle corruption
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics is offering $8,000 in prizes for novel ideas on how to monitor and undercut institutional corruption.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s 375th Anniversary Celebration
On Friday evening, October 14th 2011, in Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard’s extended family of faculty, students, staff, alumni and invited guests gathered together for a festive evening featuring fabulous desserts and a memorable musical performance. The Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra performed, accompanied by a chorus of over a hundred student voices followed by a solo performance by…
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Nation & World
7 billion, and climbing
U.N. official Babatunde Osotimehin says that educating women and girls worldwide is a critical step in slowing population growth.
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Campus & Community
375th party under the umbrellas
Harvard writers and photographers ventured to all corners of the campus and captured the University’s 375th anniversary celebration.
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Health
Harvard surgeons perform hand transplant
Fourteen Harvard surgeons, supported by 36 anesthesiologists, radiologists, nurses, and other medical personnel at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, worked for 12 hours to give a new pair of hands to a 65-year-old Revere man who lost both arms below the elbows and both legs below the knees as a result of a septic infection…
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Nation & World
The 99 percent solution
Occupy Wall Street, the inspiration for hundreds of similar economic protests, is “an angry work in progress” that drew experts’ attention during two programs at Harvard.
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Health
Gauging the effects of the BP spill
Research into the effects of last year’s massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the flexibility of the community of microbes living in the ocean’s depths.
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Campus & Community
Zakaria to speak at Commencement
Harvard names Fareed Zakaria, an alumnus who is a thought leader on international affairs, as principal speaker for the 361st Commencement in May.
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Campus & Community
Answer to today’s trivia question
Question: Who was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Harvard? Answer: Helen Keller, in 1955 Read about Keller’s life of letters and philanthropy. For more information…
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Campus & Community
Standing as a community
More than 50 students, faculty members, and administrators gathered Wednesday night to commemorate National Coming Out Day and to memorialize the BGLTQ students nationwide who committed suicide in recent years following harassment.
