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Health
HIV prevention gets $20M boost
A new four-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will enable Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers to evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of a unique combination of HIV prevention strategies in Botswana.
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Science & Tech
Plant offers slick strategy
Adopting the pitcher plant’s slick strategy, a group of applied scientists at Harvard have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh conditions like high pressure and freezing temperatures.
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Campus & Community
Search resumes for additional Corporation members
Harvard Corporation welcomes three new members, and nominations are now open for its future members.
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Campus & Community
Opening day
In a ceremony on Sept. 20, Harvard welcomes ROTC back by opening an on-campus office for its Navy midshipmen.
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Nation & World
Uncertainty remains factor in Japan
Uncertainty about the long-term effects of low-level radiation and despair over the bleak employment picture in Japan are contributing to alarming rates of suicide among those affected by the cascading disasters of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown of a nuclear reactor, Harvard experts found on recent visits.
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Science & Tech
Intuitive? Try God
Harvard researchers exploring the roots of religion have found that intuitive thinking leads to belief in God, while more reflective thinking points toward atheism.
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Campus & Community
Harvard announces next steps in Allston
In a letter today to the Harvard and Allston communities, Harvard Executive Vice President Katie Lapp shared the Harvard Corporation’s endorsement of the Allston Work Team recommendations and a plan for pursuing them in two development phases.
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Arts & Culture
A tale of two sisters
Radcliffe fellow Tayari Jones’ new novel, steeped in the South, shows the knotty complexity of families’ lives.
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Campus & Community
Three named MacArthur Fellows
Three Harvard faculty members — Roland Fryer Jr., Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics; Markus Greiner, associate professor of physics; and Matthew K. Nock, professor of psychology — are among the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, also know as “genius” grants.
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Nation & World
Campus leaders
U.S. Navy Captain Curtis R. Stevens, Midshipman 1st class Evan Roth ’12, and Midshipman 3rd class Catherine Philbin ’14 discuss the demands and rewards of life in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at Harvard University.
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Nation & World
Ugly America
American politicians no longer politely agree to disagree. On that, participants in a panel talk Sept. 16 at the John F. Kennedy Forum all concurred. On whether there was any chance this would change, there was dispute. Politely, if passionately, expressed.
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Science & Tech
Surgical precision
In ES 227, “Medical Device Design,” SEAS students are given the opportunity to solve practical problems in a hospital setting, trying out the tools, learning about their use in real-world situations, and, in some cases, even sitting in on surgical procedures.
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Arts & Culture
When jazz captures the young
Students from the Boston Arts Academy got some positive reinforcement today when they came to Harvard University for a special panel discussion with celebrated jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.
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Arts & Culture
Marsalis in motion
Before a rapt audience at Sanders Theatre, jazz great Wynton Marsalis explored the history of American dance in the second lecture in a two-year series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music.”
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Science & Tech
Data may not compute
The Dataverse Network Project, spearheaded by Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, provides archival storage for research projects whose records are on outmoded technology formats.
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Campus & Community
Magazine recognizes Justin Kasper
Popular Science magazine has selected Center for Astrophysics astronomer Justin Kasper as one of this year’s “Brilliant Ten” scientists.
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Campus & Community
Roemer to visit IOP in October
The Institute of Politics (IOP), located at Harvard Kennedy School, announced the fall visiting fellowship of Tim Roemer the week of Oct. 3.
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Science & Tech
Guarding the forests
The regeneration of the region’s forests during the last 150 years is an environmental gift that New Englanders shouldn’t squander with thoughtless development, the director of the Harvard Forest said in a talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Campus & Community
A summer of achievement
Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association, which helps to run 11 free summer camps in Boston and Cambridge, received the National Summer Learning Association’s 2011 Excellence in Summer Learning Award.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 14
At its first meeting of the year on Sept. 14, the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2011-12, and discussed the work of the council in the new academic year.
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Health
Harvard serves up its own ‘Plate’
The Healthy Eating Plate, a visual guide that provides a blueprint for eating a healthy meal, was unveiled today by Harvard nutrition experts.
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Campus & Community
Reimagining ‘Summertime’
Students from the Boston Collegiate Charter School reinterpreted the classic song “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” as part of a two-day workshop conducted by the A.R.T./MXAT Institute.
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Nation & World
The law before and after 9/11
Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, outlines the security paradigm shift in the run-up to 9/11 and the factors to consider when creating a new legal architecture to fight terrorism.
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Campus & Community
Aldy to chair M-RCBG program
Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been named faculty chair of the Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
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Nation & World
The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered
Fifty years ago, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously shocked the nascent television industry out of complacency, calling American television a “vast wasteland.” On Sept. 12, he joined an all-star lineup at Harvard Law School to discuss the problems and potential of the vaster wasteland that now includes elements of the Internet.
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Health
Improving maternal health globally
A new three-year, $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support a Harvard School of Public Health effort to significantly improve maternal health in developing countries.
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Campus & Community
A smarter Harvard marketplace
An online procurement system rolls out across Harvard, saving the University $5.4 million in its first year and making life a little easier for thousands of researchers and administrators.
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Nation & World
‘The Constitution and the Question of Power’
Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver a lecture titled “The Constitution and the Question of Power” at 1 p.m. Sept. 19 in Emerson Hall, Room 101. The event is free and open to the public.
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Nation & World
Honoring a tireless advocate
Scholars and professionals involved with the labor movement, workplace law, and social policy gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to honor the life of alumna Clara Schiffer on behalf of working women, and to explore the legacy and prospects of working women.
