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Science & Tech
Ecosystems under siege
Environmental panel discusses the problems facing the Earth, and what it would take to reverse the damaging trends.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 14
At its 12th meeting of the year on April 14, the Faculty Council continued its discussion of the College’s academic dishonesty policy and discussed the voting status of senior lecturers. In addition, the council reviewed reports on the Ph.D. programs in systems Biology and social policy.
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Health
From lab trash to treasure
Surplus and waste laboratory equipment from Harvard is finding new life in labs overseas through two student groups and a nonprofit started by a former Harvard graduate student.
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Campus & Community
Bringing faiths together
Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions celebrates its 50th anniversary of mining the commonalities of faith.
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Campus & Community
Peabody awarded NEH grant
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology will soon put thousands of one-of-a-kind ethnographic and archaeological photos from around the world online for the public and researchers, thanks to a new $215,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Campus & Community
Harvard Neighbors Gallery calls all artists
The Harvard Neighbors Gallery, located at Loeb House (17 Quincy St.), provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists to show off their artistic talents. This year, artists will be selected for four-week exhibitions (solo or group shows) between September 2010 and May 2011.
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Campus & Community
Easter at Memorial Church
The Great Vigil of Easter at the Memorial Church, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, is a time for new beginnings in the Christian faith, including baptisms. Its spiritual meanings are illuminated through the window of experience that the participants have shared.
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Campus & Community
Bringing men’s lax back
Third-year head coach John Tillman helps Harvard lacrosse return to national prominence.
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Health
When cost-cutting backfires
Chronically ill elderly patients, when asked to bear a higher share of health care costs, cut prescription drug use and office visits. Consequently, they were hospitalized more often, according to a Harvard Kennedy School study.
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Campus & Community
Boston shines 2010
For the eighth consecutive year, Harvard University is joining with Allston neighbors and local businesses to participate in the city of Boston’s citywide neighborhood cleanup event in Allston on April 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.
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Campus & Community
Lukas Prize Project Awards announced for 2010
The Nieman Foundation at Harvard and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism recently announced this year’s recipients of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction.
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Arts & Culture
Boulders that bowl over
A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.
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Campus & Community
Paula T. Hammond wins 2010 Scientist of the Year
The Harvard Foundation presented the 2010 Scientist of the Year Award to Paula T. Hammond, the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as part of its annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.
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Campus & Community
Two GSAS physics students named Hertz Foundation Fellows
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has awarded Hertz Fellowships to Adam Marblestone, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Biophysics Program, and Tony Pan, a theoretical astrophysics Ph.D. candidate at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Stalking the ‘big idea’
One of the organizers of the first “Harvard Thinks Big” session reflects on why the program that had 10 professors speak for 10 minutes about their one big idea proved so successful.
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Arts & Culture
Often, we are what we were
In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.
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Campus & Community
A la carte for freshmen
Advising Fortnight sessions help freshmen to determine their passions, as they survey many academic areas in choosing their concentrations.
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Campus & Community
PBK inducts Class of 2011 members
The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, elected 24 juniors at a private ceremony at Leverett House on April 13.
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Health
Novel artificial pancreas controls blood sugar more than 24 hours
An artificial pancreas system that closely mimics the body’s blood sugar control mechanism was able to maintain near-normal glucose levels without causing hypoglycemia in a small group of patients. The…
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Campus & Community
János Kornai receives the highest Hungarian state decoration
János Kornai, the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard, on March 15 was presented with Hungary’s highest state decoration, the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.
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Arts & Culture
Stage set for theater festival
The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.
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Campus & Community
GSD names Krzysztof Wodiczko professor in residence
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design names Krzysztof Wodiczko, an authority on large-scale slide and video projections, as professor in residence of art, design, and the public domain.
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Arts & Culture
Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School team up in this all-star collaboration on cyberspace. Whether the subjects are online censorship or surveillance, the wild frontier of the Web gets tamed in this tome.
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Arts & Culture
The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse
Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals into lyrical fodder.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School has launched a revamped Web site. The enhanced site reflects the integration and program development that the center has accomplished over the past two years.
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Science & Tech
Battling climate change on all fronts
Harvard’s research spans the gamut from the sciences to the humanities, examining key questions about this critical challenge facing humanity.
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Arts & Culture
The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
Government and happiness? Not so strange bedfellows, says Derek Bok, former president of Harvard and professor at Harvard Law School, who investigates how happiness research could affect policy.
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Campus & Community
Campaign to turn Crimson green
Harvard makes great strides in cutting its everyday energy use, saving money and greening the campus in the process.
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Campus & Community
Oglesby Paul
Oglesby Paul, a towering figure in the field of internal medicine and cardiology and one-time former dean of admissions at Harvard Medical School, is remembered for tirelessly serving both his patients and students.
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Campus & Community
The gym unlocker
Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.
