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Science & Tech
Chen wins Lemelson-MIT Prize
Graduate student Alice A. Chen received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize on Wednesday (March 9) for her innovative applications of microtechnology to study human health and disease.
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Science & Tech
Harvard Medical School researchers crawl a neural network
Scientists can finally look at circuits in the brain in all of their complexity. How the mind works is one of the greatest mysteries in nature, and this research presents a new and powerful way for us to explore that mystery.
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Campus & Community
Aiding a pilot school
Harvard-sponsored math night for elementary-school students and parents at Allston’s Gardner Pilot Academy was the latest collaboration in the University’s long partnership with the school.
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Nation & World
A thorny path to reform
Edward Schumacher-Matos of Harvard Kennedy School moderated a panel discussion featuring three of the country’s foremost immigration scholars.
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Health
Web-crawling the brain
Researchers in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School have developed a technique for unraveling these masses. Through a combination of microscopy platforms, researchers can crawl through the individual connections composing a neural network, much as Google crawls web links.
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Science & Tech
URES taps three SEAS grad students
Three technology proposals from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been selected for presentation at the University Research and Entrepreneurship Symposium (URES).
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Campus & Community
Scholarship sends student to India
Isabel Salovaara ’12 will study abroad this semester in Delhi, India, as part of a scholarship from IES Abroad.
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Campus & Community
MPSA awards Daniel Carpenter
The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) has named Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, the winner of the 2011 Herbert Simon Award for his career scientific contributions to the study of public administration.
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Science & Tech
Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today (March 9) named Leslie G. Valiant the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.
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Science & Tech
The impact of plate tectonics
A new research paper by Harvard geophysicists Brendan Meade and Jack Love-less says that the earth sciences principle of plate tectonics is applicable on a continental scale.
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Nation & World
The promise of journalism
New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich ’71 receives the Goldsmith Career Award and suggests good days are still ahead for significant, game-changing journalism.
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Nation & World
The need for men to back women
A two-day conference on gender examined various dimensions to empowering the lives of women in developing nations.
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Campus & Community
College welcomes junior parents
Harvard faculty, experts, and President Drew Faust welcomed the families of third-year undergraduates to campus and gave the Class of 2012 advice on preparing for life after college during the Junior Parents Weekend (JPW) program, March 4-5. More than 560 students and nearly 1,200 of their guests attended the annual event.
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Arts & Culture
A river of concern
Artist and photographer Atul Bhalla uses his work to explore the cultural and historical contexts of water. His current installation at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum is part art and part performance project involving India’s Yamuna River.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Escaping the Ivory Tower” – Caroline Elkins
Caroline Elkins, Professor of History; Chair of the Standing Committee on African Studies; Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Triumph in the City” – Edward Glaeser
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “From Eye to Mind: Affirming the Union of Science and Art” – Robert Lue
Robert Lue, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Tutor in Biochemical Sciences; Director of Life Sciences Education
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Beauty as a Call to Justice” – Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality” – Joshua Greene
Joshua Greene, Assistant Professor of Psychology
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Experiencing Time in Music” – Richard Beaudoin
Richard Beaudoin, Lecturer on Music
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Citizens” – Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law
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Campus & Community
Harvard Thinks Big 2: Introductions
Steven Hyman, Provost; Member of the Board of Snydics of Harvard University Press; Professor of Neurobiology; Peter Davis ’12 and Zachary Richner ’11, Co-Producers and Co-Hosts of Harvard Thinks Big
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Nation & World
Lesotho: MDRTB Outpatients
The tiny African nation of Lesotho is among those hardest hit by the raging twin epidemics of ADIS and tuberculosis. Harvard faculty members are advising the government and helping to revamp clinics and treat patients in the far-flung mountain regions of this poor country.
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Nation & World
Congo: Survivors Song
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Nation & World
South Africa: Durban Labs
One of the continent’s richest nations, South Africa also has one of the world’s highest HIV infection rates and is home to the world’s biggest population of HIV-infected people, an estimated 5.5 million.
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Nation & World
Congo: Couldn’t leave them behind
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Nation & World
Lesotho: She looks better
The tiny African nation of Lesotho is among those hardest hit by the raging twin epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis. Harvard faculty members are advising the government and helping to revamp clinics and treat patients in the far-flung mountain regions of this poor country.
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Campus & Community
Bill Richardson named IOP spring visiting fellow
Former governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson has been named a spring visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics.
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Campus & Community
Harvard and ROTC
At Harvard, military service is regarded as a form of public service. The University’s long history with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has provided generations of students with formative leadership opportunities, and it has provided the military with some of its best-educated officers.
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Campus & Community
Signing ceremony welcomes ROTC
After a 40-year hiatus, Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, according to an agreement signed Friday (March 4) by President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, J.D. ’76.
