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  • Campus & Community

    Sidney R. Coleman

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 15, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sidney R. Coleman, Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. For much of his career, Professor Coleman was the preeminent teacher of quantum field theory in the world.

  • Health

    Harnessing your creative brain

    Shelley Carson, a researcher in the Psychology Department and lecturer at the Extension School, has penned a how-to book on harnessing your untapped abilities.

  • Nation & World

    Scholars at Risk network

    The Scholars at Risk network is made up of 194 universities in 23 countries, and based at New York University. It was founded in 1999 by University of Chicago legal scholar Jacqueline Bhabha, who now is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and the University adviser on human rights education.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hooray for Harvardwood

    As a liberal arts college, Harvard doesn’t train its students for jobs in Hollywood. But student clubs, a liaison network, and individual drive prompt some toward entertainment careers, a fact reflected in this year’s Oscar nominees.

  • Health

    Study: Ibuprofen cuts Parkinson’s risk

    A new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers shows that adults who regularly take ibuprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, have about one-third less risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than nonusers.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard men drive on to ‘destiny’

    Last year, the Harvard men’s basketball team won the most games in its history. This year, despite graduation of their best player and significant injuries, the Crimson are in a position to finish even better.

  • Campus & Community

    Rev. Peter J. Gomes dies at 68

    The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, died on Feb. 28 from complications arising from a stroke. He was 68 years old.

  • Campus & Community

    GPA SmartTALK Family Math Night February 16, 2011

    The North Allston elementary school’s first Math Night, held Feb. 16, brought parents into the school for an Italian dinner and a chance to learn fun ways to practice math with their children. But the evening, sponsored by the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI), also provided the school’s families with insight into the up-to-date learning…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Thinks Big: “It’s the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine” – Daniel Gilbert

    Our planet is on the brink of an ecological catastrophe and you are sitting calmly in Sanders Theatre. Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology tells us why.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Thinks Big: “Religion in the Age of Pluralism” – Diana Eck

    Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society on what everyone needs to know in a new era of faith and globalization.

  • Campus & Community

    HKS establishes professorship of U.S.-Asia relations

    The Harvard Kennedy School has established the S.T. Lee Professorship of U.S.-Asia Relations.

  • Campus & Community

    AAC&U names Skocpol a director

    At its recent annual meeting in San Francisco, the Association of American Colleges and Universities named Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, a director.

  • Campus & Community

    University of Macedonia honors Herzfeld

    Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology and curator of European ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Macedonia on Nov. 24.

  • Campus & Community

    New journal launches at GSD

    underWRITING: The Harvard Student Journal of Real Estate launched on March 1 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

  • Campus & Community

    Rev. Peter J. Gomes dies at 68

    The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University, died from complications arising from a stroke on Feb. 28. He was 68 years old.

  • Campus & Community

    Talking with their mouths full

    More than 50 faculty members and guests gathered at the Harvard Faculty Club on Feb. 24 for “Fish Markets and the Art of Sushi Making,” a seminar and demonstration organized by the Office of the Provost.

  • Campus & Community

    Shakira takes the stage

    Singer Shakira was at Harvard on Feb. 26 to receive the Harvard Foundation’s 2011 Artist of the Year award.

  • Science & Tech

    Matching supply, demand

    Harvard graduate student Wonyoung Kim has developed and demonstrated a new device with the potential to reduce the power usage of modern processing chips.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard lends a hand to Chile

    The Harvard community has reached out to help Chile recover from last year’s earthquake, with efforts ranging from students working on reconstruction during winter break to an upcoming planning meeting involving Harvard faculty members and President Drew Faust.

  • Science & Tech

    Brenner awarded Ledlie Prize

    Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

  • Health

    Dilemmas of destiny

    As genetic testing and its offspring — personalized medicine — have matured, patients and doctors have become entangled in such issues as how to best share at-risk information, access treatment options, and weigh decisions about threats to the young and unborn. And sometimes these issues mushroom, becoming quandaries for society as a whole.

  • Arts & Culture

    A call to action, amid acting

    A.R.T.’s “Prometheus Bound” ties the ancient Greek play to modern human rights.

  • Nation & World

    Avoiding a ‘fiscal train wreck’

    During remarks Thursday (Feb. 24) at the Harvard Kennedy School, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor portrayed the United States as a “fiscal train wreck” and sketched the stark choices that Republicans consider necessary to fuel the nation’s economic engine.

  • Campus & Community

    New York Times columnist wins Goldsmith

    New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich will receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism as part of the annual Goldsmith Awards Ceremony.

  • Nation & World

    Labor’s love lost

    As anti-union sentiment sweeps state governments around the country, recent success stories in Massachusetts could hold the keys to improving public unions’ image, local leaders said at Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Campus & Community

    Ice time

    The 22nd annual Allston-Brighton Family Skating Party drew Allston-Brighton residents of all ages to Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center on Wednesday (Feb. 23) for an evening of free ice skating.

  • Nation & World

    Chronic condition

    Panelists discussed the impact, failures, and future of health care reform at a Harvard Kennedy School event on Feb. 23.

  • Health

    Designing gene

    Taking advantage of the simple color pattern of deer mice, Harvard researchers showed that small changes in the activity of a single pigmentation gene in embryos generate big differences in adult color pattern.

  • Science & Tech

    Mapping the Human Genome: Ten Years After

    On February 15, 2001, a decade ago, the first draft sequence and analysis of the human genome—the blue print for a human being—was published in the journal Nature. On the tenth anniversary of that transformative moment, Harvard hosted an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional forum on the genome project’s origins, promise, and significance to society.

  • Campus & Community

    Early action returns

    Harvard College will restore early action and create a new initiative to level the playing field in early admission.