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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.
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Science & Tech
Ambitious undertaking
U.S. Undersecretary of Energy Kristina Johnson said the United States plans to have 80 percent of its energy come from alternative and unconventional fossil fuels by 2050. She spoke as part of the “Future of Energy” discussion series sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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Nation & World
‘Power Lunch’ comes to HBS
CNBC show “Power Lunch” interviews Harvard M.B.A. students to gain insights into prospects for Twitter’s future business model.
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Nation & World
Out of Africa
Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.
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Arts & Culture
A march toward the arts
The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.
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Arts & Culture
Medieval recycling
Radcliffe Fellow Robin Fleming peers into the history of early medieval Britain through the lens of material culture.
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Campus & Community
Bill Lee to join Harvard Corporation
William F. Lee, A.B. ’72, a Boston-based intellectual property expert and former Harvard Overseer who leads one of the nation’s most prominent law firms, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today (April 11).
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Campus & Community
Seeing Harvard from all sides
Bill Lee, who is the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, has seen Harvard from many vantage points: He attended the College, has taught at the Law School, served as an Overseer and has been a proud Harvard parent – twice. As he prepared to join the Corporation, Lee sat down with the Gazette to…
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Nation & World
Doctor examines torture
Author and Harvard doctor Atul Gawande explored the practice of solitary confinement in a lecture at Harvard Law School.
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Campus & Community
Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96
Nathan Keyfitz, professor of demography and sociology at Harvard from 1972 to 1983, recently died at the age of 96. Keyfitz was a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.
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Campus & Community
Harvard-based pay-for-study experiment shows students incentivized to actions, not results
A program that paid city students if they got higher test scores earned an F, a new study shows.
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Arts & Culture
Emily as art
A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.
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Nation & World
Schools may flunk testing
During a presentation at a Harvard Graduate School of Education Askwith Forum Diane Ravitch, former proponent of educational testing, told the audience that the movement has gone too far, including punishing schools for unrealistic expectations.
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Nation & World
Reclaiming their future
The first visiting scholar for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative examines the reforms needed to drive human development in the Middle East.
