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Campus & Community
Harvard grad awarded Fulbright
Harvard graduate Alexander J. Berman ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Russia in filmmaking, the Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.
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Campus & Community
Harvard voted league favorite
Harvard was voted as the league favorite in the Ivy League preseason media poll, released today (Aug. 10) as part of the league’s annual football media day.
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Campus & Community
Scientists Unravel Secrets of Sound Sleep
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) find that people’s brain rhythms during sleep may hold the answer to sleeping through loud noise.
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Campus & Community
SEAS student awarded fellowship
Emily Gardel, a Ph.D. candidate in applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded a three-year Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship.
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Health
Love life
A new Harvard study shows that ratios between males and females affect human longevity.
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Science & Tech
Researchers demonstrate highly directional terahertz laser rays
A collaborative team of scientists at Harvard and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that emits beams with a much smaller divergence than conventional…
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Nation & World
For sale, cheap
Study finds that bank foreclosures reduce a house’s price by an average of 27 percent, and nearby homes see their prices cut by an average of 1 percent.
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Nation & World
Lending a guiding hand
Child welfare advocates from around the country gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School to share strategies for improving the lot of troubled children across the nation.
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Nation & World
Colleagues recall Kagan’s years at Harvard
At Harvard, new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is remembered as an insightful intellectual, a tough-minded basketball player, and a colleague who had grit, graciousness, and patience.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s historic mark
As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of now 23 justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and historical ways — they all hail from Harvard.
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Campus & Community
HUCTW ratifies two-year contract
Members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers ratified a two-year contract with the University that guarantees modest wage increases, and provides policy improvements on key issues such as layoff selections.
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Health
Excess maternal weight gain increases birth weight, study finds
Expectant mothers who gain large amounts of weight tend to give birth to heavier infants who are at higher risk for obesity later in life. But it’s never been proven that this tendency results from the weight gain itself, rather than genetic or other factors that mother and baby share.
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Science & Tech
Quantum networks advance with entanglement of photons, solid-state qubits
A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials. The work marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks, as…
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Campus & Community
A picnic in the Yard
Harvard hosts hundreds of senior elderly residents from Cambridge at the 35th Annual Senior Picnic at Tercentenary Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Teach for America taps talent
More than three dozen Harvard graduates will join Teach for America this fall, as the University remains among the nation’s top contributors to the national education program.
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Science & Tech
Quantum connections
Harvard physicists demonstrate the first quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials, in work that marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks that can communicate over long distances.
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Nation & World
Getting down to cases
Business neophytes at Harvard and MIT wrap up the annual case competition, stepping out of their everyday fields to learn about being business consultants.
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Campus & Community
Time travel in chalk
Members of Professor Ann Pearson’s lab switched from science to art recently, decorating the slate panels outside the Hoffman Laboratory with depictions of three great eras in Earth’s history: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.
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Nation & World
Basic science
A Harvard chemist and two graduate students from Harvard and MIT traveled to Liberia in June to conduct a workshop on science teaching for professors and students in the war-torn nation.
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Health
Insights on healthy aging
New research from Harvard scientists shows that exercise and caloric restriction rejuvenate synapses in laboratory mice, illuminating a reason for the beneficial effects of these regimens on aging.
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Health
Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate older synapses
Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control.
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Arts & Culture
One writer’s gospel
A student in novelist Paul Harding’s last Harvard class recounts the lessons learned.
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Arts & Culture
The little book that could
Novelist Paul Harding rose from obscurity and rejection to win a Pulitzer Prize for his debut book “Tinkers,” which is derived from his family history.
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Campus & Community
Adrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology at Harvard University, effective next Jan. 1.
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Health
Vaccine vacuum
Small increases in vaccine costs can cause large gaps in protection, study finds. Also, vaccine “scares” may do more harm than previously believed to a population’s “herd immunity.”
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Campus & Community
Kindergarten skills pay off in big bucks
Harvard-led study shows children, whether rich or poor, who were in top-scoring kindergarten classes back in the 1980s have grown up to earn about $1,000 more a year than their peers in weaker performing classes…
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Health
Warnings of suicidal intent
Two powerful new tests developed by Harvard psychologists show great promise in predicting patients’ risk of attempting suicide, researchers say. These tests may help clinicians to overcome their reliance on…
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Science & Tech
Inklings of suicide
Two new computerized tests, developed at Harvard, show promise in predicting patients’ risk of attempting suicide.
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Campus & Community
U.S. grants visa to journalist and Nieman fellow
The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to leading Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. He is now free to travel to the United States, where he will begin a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.