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Health
Thinking ahead on diabetes
By measuring the levels of small molecules in the blood, doctors may be able to identify individuals at elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes as much as a decade before symptoms of the disorder appear.
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Nation & World
Spotlight on Harvard in Chile
President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Chile, she is meeting with government and academic leaders and getting a firsthand look at the tangible benefits of Harvard research.
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Science & Tech
How the lily blooms
SEAS research has revealed that differential growth and ruffling at the edges of each petal — not in the midrib, as commonly suggested — provide the force behind the lily’s bloom. The work contradicts earlier theories regarding the growth within the flower bud.
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Campus & Community
Putnam awarded Rolf Schock Prize
The 2011 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy will be awarded on Nov. 2 to Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Gardner receives honorary degree
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, received an honorary degree from the University of Ploiesti in Romania on March 17.
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Health
Yes to testing children
According to a new study released online Monday (March 21), 60 percent of parents, whether they smoke or not, said they would like to have their children tested for tobacco smoke exposure during pediatric visits.
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Nation & World
Harvard rushes to aid Japan
The University responds to the tragedy that struck Japan last week in myriad ways — with a benefit concert, discussions by experts, and a web portal to ease information flow.
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Campus & Community
ECAC Hockey taps Danny Biega
Sophomore defenseman Danny Biega of the Harvard men’s hockey team has been named to the ECAC Hockey all-league second team.
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Nation & World
Three crises for Japan
Addressing a forum on Japan’s crises, Harvard analysts describe how public trust in relief efforts, logistical obstacles to aid, and foreign sensitivity to Japanese culture are all keys to an effective disaster response.
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Arts & Culture
Race in America, made personal
In a discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed discussed the next installment of her work on the complicated history involving Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
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Campus & Community
Secret history
FreeThink@Harvard is a new interactive e-learning series sponsored by the Dean of Students Office at Harvard Extension School. Each discussion is led by Harvard faculty and includes a classroom chat with a crowd of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff that is also streamed online.
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Campus & Community
No quit in Crimson
The season will continue for the Harvard men’s basketball team, despite a heartbreaking loss to Princeton on Saturday (March 12) that cost the squad a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson will square off against Oklahoma State on March 15 in the National Invitational Tournament.
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Campus & Community
Allston’s retail profile rising
New tenants, including 11 over the past year, have helped to bring Harvard’s vacant Allston properties back to life.
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Health
Protein that helps battle HIV
Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard find that elevated levels of p21, a protein best known as a cancer fighter, may be involved in the immune system’s ability to control HIV infection.
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Nation & World
Empowering women in Africa
On a visit to Harvard to participate in a two-day gender conference sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda discussed issues facing her African country, including women’s health, education, and the importance of promoting women leaders.
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Campus & Community
Heartbreaker
What with all the lights, cameras, and raucous action pervading the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn., this Saturday (March 12), one could be forgiven for thinking that the one-game playoff pitting the Harvard men’s basketball team against Princeton was a scripted affair. Unfortunately for the 2011 Ivy League co-champion Crimson, it was…
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Science & Tech
A quake data clearinghouse
Within hours of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis had launched a web-based data clearinghouse, the Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal, to provide a site where disaster responders can find needed information.
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Campus & Community
Signing ceremony welcoming ROTC to Harvard
Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. The agreement, signed Friday afternoon, March 4, at Loeb House by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and President Drew Faust, will end a 40-year hiatus.
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Campus & Community
Touring the Yard with John Stilgoe
Harvard professor John Stilgoe takes viewers on a tour of historic Harvard Yard and explores its many unique and exciting features.
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Nation & World
Understanding Obama
Professor James Kloppenberg, author of “Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition,” took questions from five panelists on the impact of Obama’s presidency at an event sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Student projects win $50,000 in grants
Student entrepreneurs at Harvard have won $50,000 in grants to support further development of innovative ventures in the Harvard College Innovation Challenge.
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Health
Deep thinker
Scientists are advancing in their understanding of the biology of the deep sea, which still remains largely unexplored and mysterious, according to Associate Professor Peter Girguis.
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Campus & Community
A sort of homecoming
On Harvard’s annual Housing Day, freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.
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Arts & Culture
Diary from a darkened room
The eccentric diary of Boston recluse Arthur Crew Inman, published in 1985 by Harvard University Press, inspires a Hollywood film project.
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Arts & Culture
The timelessness of war
In a collaboration with the American Repertory Theater and the Theater of War, members of the military and civilians attended a reading of the ancient Greek drama “Ajax and Philoctetes” and took part in a discussion about the psychological impact of war.
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Campus & Community
Acting minister appointed
Wendel W. “Tad” Meyer, who joined the Memorial Church at Harvard University as associate minister for administration in December, will become acting Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church while the University seeks a permanent successor to the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.
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Campus & Community
The voice of reform
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard Kennedy School alumna who at great personal risk has played a key role in stabilizing and reviving her nation, will be the principal speaker at Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University’s 360th Commencement in May.
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Campus & Community
The lure of green
More than 30 energy and environment employers connected with Harvard students at the Office of Career Services’ second annual Energy and Environment Expo.
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Health
The debate over mammograms
The debate over whether routine mammogram screenings are useful diagnostic tools or potentially ineffective and wasteful was the issue of a Harvard School of Public Health forum on March 8.
