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Campus & Community
BIDMC’s Pandolfi to receive cancer research award
Cancer geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the recipient of the 2011 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research.
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Campus & Community
Deadline looms for two HMS fellowships
Two fellowships in Harvard Medical School’s media fellowship program are open for applications from reporters.
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Campus & Community
Expert etiquette
Robin Abrahams, a research associate at Harvard Business School and Boston Globe columnist, answered Harvard employees’ questions on workplace etiquette in a HARVie chat in January.
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Science & Tech
Light touch
Physicists and bioengineers have developed an optical instrument allowing them to control the behavior of a worm just by shining a tightly focused beam of light at individual neurons inside the organism.
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Campus & Community
Elections open for Overseers and HAA directors
This spring, Harvard University alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association board.
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Arts & Culture
Eyes on the stage
Harvard’s Learning From Performers (LFP) program began in 1975 “to facilitate direct engagement between Harvard students and gifted artists.” Today, LFP hosts 15 to 20 virtuosos each year who lead master classes in music, dance, theater, and other performing arts.
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Campus & Community
Record applications to Harvard College
Nearly 35,000 students applied for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2015 for entry in August, an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year, and of more than 50 percent from four years ago. Financial aid program proves a major attraction.
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Campus & Community
Miss Conduct to conduct online chat
Harvard will host an online chat with Robin Abrahams, the Boston Globe’s Miss Conduct, who also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School, on Jan. 18 at noon. The chat is part of a HARVie series that offers Harvard community members the opportunity to learn from experts across campus.
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Campus & Community
More diner than dining hall
The Quincy House Grille — part of 57,000 square feet of social space renovated or constructed by the College over the past five years — is a popular spot for Quincy residents and their undergraduate classmates from the surrounding river Houses.
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Arts & Culture
Bucky on stage
Inventor and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller, thrown out of Harvard College twice in the early 20th century, returns in the center of a one-man play on the “history (and mystery) of the universe.”
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Campus & Community
Beyond the lab and library
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring a winter break grab bag of seminars, workshops, and recreational activities designed to help its students recharge and build skills.
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Campus & Community
Kafadar nabs Turkish honors
Turkish President Abdullah Gül presented in December the 2010 Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts to Harvard Professor Cemal Kafadar for history.
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Campus & Community
HGLC seeks applications for public service fellowship
The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus is seeking current full-time Harvard student applicants for its 2011 Public Service Fellowship.
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Campus & Community
NARSAD awards $720,000 to Harvard researchers
Twelve from Harvard are among 214 researchers named NARSAD Young Investigators.
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Campus & Community
Institute of Politics director named
Trey Grayson, who is completing his second term as secretary of state in Kentucky, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University. Grayson will assume his post on Jan. 31.
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Campus & Community
Moving past any obstacles
Tomer Rosner is an accomplished Israeli civil servant and a midcareer student on a fellowship at Harvard. He’s also the only blind student at Harvard Kennedy School, but that’s hardly slowed him down.
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Health
What made Darwin first
Evolution icon Charles Darwin rushed “On the Origin of Species” into print to beat the competition, but neglected to credit early thinkers on the subject, who let him know it after the book’s 1859 publication, leading to his appended “Historical Sketch” in later editions.
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Nation & World
Haiti: New Hospital
Harvard faculty work through nonprofit to bring health to world’s poor.
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Nation & World
Progress in Haiti ‘painfully slow’
A year after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Harvard faculty members reflect on work done there and the difficult job that remains.
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Campus & Community
AAAS announces 15 Harvard fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded 15 Harvard faculty members the distinction of being named an AAAS Fellow on Jan. 11.
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Health
Checking in, saving lives
Harvard researchers have estimated the likely cost-effectiveness of post-discharge follow-up phone calls to smokers hospitalized with acute heart attacks. In a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the researchers suggest that phone calls to these discharged smokers encouraging them to quit would yield significant health and economic gains.
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Campus & Community
Nominations open for Harvard Corporation members
As announced in December, the Harvard Corporation will expand from seven to 13 members, as part of a broader set of changes involving the Corporation’s composition and work.
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Nation & World
Congo: Rape as Strategy
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
Haiti: Home Visit
Living in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, most of Haiti’s nine million people are subsistence farmers. Poverty and malnutrition are exacerbated by poor health care and a low vaccination rate.
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Nation & World
Haiti: Mother to Child
Living in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, most of Haiti’s nine million people are subsistence farmers. Poverty and malnutrition are exacerbated by poor health care and a low vaccination rate.
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Health
Expecting better
Harvard researchers in the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program have created a model for predicting a drug’s tendency to cause birth defects.
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Science & Tech
Slimy secrets
Harvard researchers have discovered that Bacillus subtilis biofilm colonies exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a wide range of liquids — and even vapors. The finding holds promise for developing better ways to eliminate harmful biofilms that can clog pipes, contaminate food production and water supply systems, and lead to infections.
