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Campus & Community
Craig R. McCoy wins 2010 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence
Craig R. McCoy, an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, has won the 2010 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.
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Campus & Community
Six grad students named Rappaport Fellows
Six Harvard University graduate students are among the 13 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.
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Campus & Community
Soccer as global village
In an increasingly globalized world, soccer both benefits and suffers from a player’s ability to leave his homeland and compete on an international stage.
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Nation & World
Questions on an oil-dark sea
The gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the catastrophe on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig will change the way corporate officials think about future risks, Harvard officials say.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s hearty harvest
The new Harvard Community Garden holds its first workday of the summer, and celebrates with salad.
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Campus & Community
Three Harvard scientists named Pew Scholars
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Fernando Camargo, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) Alexander Gimelbrant, and Sun Hur, assistant professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS, have been named 2010 Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Nation & World
A rippling effect of the Holocaust
Areas of Russia whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of the Holocaust have seen lower economic growth and wages in the decades since, according to a new analysis.
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Campus & Community
Swing time in Allston
Harvard opens community facility in Allston featuring mini-golf course and cages for practicing baseball, golf swings.
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Health
Nobel winners and losers
Author Erling Norrby discusses how the Nobel Prizes for the sciences, while often awarding breakthrough efforts, also can miss pivotal findings that made a difference.
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Science & Tech
Insights on quantum mechanics
Physicists create an artificial material to gain up-close insights into quantum materials and how they interact.
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Campus & Community
To market, to market
Harvard reopens its seasonal farmers’ markets with a bounty of fresh produce and local, handmade products.
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Arts & Culture
Where art and advertising collide
A new exhibition at Harvard Business School explores the intersection of fine photography with product marketing in the 1930s.
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Campus & Community
Panel ponders digital divide
University administrators gather to explore the issues surrounding the expansion of digital scholarship.
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Arts & Culture
Food for thought
A weeklong seminar at the Radcliffe Institute examines cookbooks through the centuries, and what they say about the practices, resources, and cultures of their times.
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Nation & World
When China’s doors reopened
Retired diplomat Nicholas Platt ’57 weighs in on China then and now, and on the durability of U.S. ties to that nation.
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Campus & Community
A park by the river
Cambridge and Harvard officials dedicate Riverside Community Park, the city’s newest open space, and the result of years of cooperative effort.
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Campus & Community
50 receive Dean’s Distinction awards
Fifty FAS staff members and managers receive first Dean’s Distinction awards, in recognition for strong contributions during difficult times.
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Campus & Community
ACLS awards fellowships to Harvard bunch
Harvard faculty members and doctoral candidates are among those awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.
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Campus & Community
National Humanities Center names fellows for 2010-11
The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently named Harvard’s Suzannah Clark, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music, and James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and professor of comparative literature, among the 2010-11 class of 36 distinguished scholars.
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Campus & Community
Mind/Brain/Behavior awards seniors
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Mind/Brain/Behavior recognized seniors in a ceremony held at the Harvard Faculty Club on May 26.
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Campus & Community
Scientists hit on universal theory of bubbles
James Bird, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, finds that bubbles just don’t disappear.
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Campus & Community
Three winners of the Howard T. Fisher Prize announced
One undergraduate and two graduate students will receive the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.
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Nation & World
The mystique of merit pay
Scholars, educators, and politicians gathered for a two-day seminar at Harvard Kennedy School to explore the complicated issue of performance pay in the nation’s public schools.
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Campus & Community
Students selected for Ash summer fellowships and internships
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School recently announced the students selected for Summer Fellowships in Innovation, research internships in Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as independent student research projects.
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Campus & Community
Reading and study strategies course open for registration
The Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day reading course is now open for registration.
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Campus & Community
Nieman Foundation for Journalism announces fellows for 2011
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 25 journalists from the United States and abroad to join the 73rd class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes journalists who work in print, radio, television, photography, and online.
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Campus & Community
Cambridge Health Alliance’s David Bor receives Art of Healing Award
David Bor, Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was recently honored with the third annual Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Art of Healing Award.
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Campus & Community
Details, details
Amidst the bustle of daily activities at Harvard, still lives of stone, bronze, iron, and glass surround us. Artistic and architectural details on campus boast a dizzying array of fine craftsmanship — both ornamental and functional — ranging across centuries. With the quiet calm of the attentive photographer, teacups, tomes, and the steadfast hands of…
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Campus & Community
All-USA College Academic winners defy expectations
Harvard social studies major and ROTC member Christopher Higgins, 22, stumbled onto his passion in 2007 while interning at New Hope, an orphanage in Uganda