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Campus & Community
2,600 miles and one screen apart
Harvard, Boston, and Cambridge officials join with a corporate partner to launch a program that will link distant schools along high-speed connections.
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Nation & World
A backdrop on Islam in America
A teach-in at Harvard tries to put the Ground Zero mosque controversy in a historical context.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, Cisco, BBN Technologies connect with Boston and Cambridge schools
Harvard University announced today (Sept. 22) a new partnership with the cities of Boston and Cambridge designed to bring the world to students — faster and clearer than ever.
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Campus & Community
Faust: Let’s break down boundaries
Harvard President Drew Faust took questions from television journalist Charlie Gibson, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School this year, in a Sanders Theatre forum intended to kick off the school year.
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Campus & Community
New endowed coaching position
A gift from Gregory Lee ’87 and Russell Ball ’88 establishes the Gregory Lee ’87 and Russell Ball ’88 Endowed Coach for Squash. Newly appointed director of squash Mike Way will be the first coach to hold the position.
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Campus & Community
Opening Year Dialogue with President Faust and Charlie Gibson
President Faust and Charlie Gibson’s Opening Year Dialogue was held on Tuesday, September 21, at Sanders Theatre at 4 p.m.
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Arts & Culture
The dark corners of ‘Cabaret’
In a panel discussion, Harvard scholars and performer Amanda Palmer examined the sinister sides and social significance of the American Repertory Theater’s new production of “Cabaret.”
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Campus & Community
Partnerships for Progress — Boston
This work is a key extension of the public service ethic called for in Harvard’s charter, and the University takes great pride in its longstanding partnerships with communities in Boston.
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Nation & World
TV races toward its future
Disney executive Anne Sweeney, Ed.M. ’80, looks at the speed, challenge, and creativity of modern television platforms.
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Arts & Culture
Looking past the plantation
Archaeologists examining the African-American past are broadening their focus to include a greater understanding of Africa, according to Christopher Fennell, who spoke at the Harvard African Seminar.
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Nation & World
Months after Chile’s quake, the relief effort toils on
A massive earthquake rumbled through Chile last Feb. 27, killing more than 500 people, destroying tens of thousands of homes.
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Campus & Community
Extension School instructor debuts online lit mag
Talking Writing, a monthly online literary magazine, has released its first issue with Harvard Extension School instructor Martha Nichols as editor in chief.
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Arts & Culture
Language made visible
New Harvard lecture series, “Visible Language,” explores the origins of the written word across diverse ages and cultures, its origins marked by a “diverse oneness.”
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Campus & Community
Town, gown, and football
At Saturday’s Allston-Brighton Family Football Day, neighborhood residents met and mingled with each other and with Harvard staff members over dinner before attending the evening football game.
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Campus & Community
Fundraising holds steady
Against an ongoing backdrop of global economic uncertainty, Harvard University raised $596 million in cash through fundraising efforts in fiscal year 2010. These results represent a less than 1 percent decline from the $602 million in cash raised in fiscal year 2009.
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Campus & Community
John E. Murdoch, professor of history of science, 83
John E. Murdoch, one of the world’s top scholars of ancient and medieval science, died Thursday (Sept. 16) at age 83. He had been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1963, and professor of the history of science since 1967.
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Arts & Culture
Century of scientific breakthroughs
A lecture marks the path to a Harvard exhibit of 16th century art and science, still in the making.
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Campus & Community
Helping veterans to reconnect
Harvard employees help veterans transition from the armed services to the civilian workforce through mentoring, career counseling, and networking.
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Health
Poised for progress
A discovery by scientists at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute may lead to an effective way of operating the immune system’s internal “control panel,” improving therapies for a variety of diseases.
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Science & Tech
‘It is within our grasp’
Answers to questions about life in the universe is “within our grasp,” astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger said at an Origins of Life Initiative forum.
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Nation & World
Telling it like it was
Three former spokespersons discussed their time on the press firing line when they worked in the White House.
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Campus & Community
Baby, you can drive my Zipcar
New transportation options for Harvard affiliates are energy- and cost-efficient, and can be fun, too.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 15
At its Sept. 15 meeting, the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian, reviewed proposed changes to the Rules of Faculty Procedure, and heard a report from the Harvard University Retirement Plans Investment Committee.
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Science & Tech
A clean break
Engineers’ finding could provide crucial clues about cloud formation, differences between natural and polluted environments, and climate change.
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Arts & Culture
The soaring sounds of music
Harvard’s newest professor of composition explores the limits of musical expression with her works and hopes to steer students to their own musical voices.
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Arts & Culture
The golden ruling
“In Brown’s Wake,” the new book by Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, tackles the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Adams House
Bow and Arrow Press of Adams House hosts a weekly “Party in the Press,” where residents take part in the historic process of printing.
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Campus & Community
Takemi Fellows take Harvard, tackle international health
The Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health announced the names of its incoming research fellows.
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Campus & Community
Harvard in stitches
Knitting’s popularity continues to grow — even at Harvard, where at least 20 informal knitting circles meet once a week.
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Campus & Community
They save horses, don’t they?
A meeting with a wild stallion set Harvard curator Castle McLaughlin on a journey involving an endangered horse breed and a complex exhibition.
