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Campus & Community
In last semester, ‘Last Lectures’
As a prelude to graduation, seniors organize a “Last Lecture” series to receive advice from favorite professors.
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Health
Killer mushrooms!
It is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of emperors. In parts of California’s forests, it is everywhere. It is the deathcap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, so filled with…
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Arts & Culture
‘Walden’ for the 21st century
In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.
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Campus & Community
From Homeless to Harvard
Everyone has baggage, but Lalita Booth’s is heavier than most.
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Science & Tech
Posing the Big Questions
In 1900, renowned mathematician David Hilbert laid down a challenge to future generations: 23 handpicked mathematical problems, all difficult, all important, and all unsolved. Since then, countless mathematicians around the world have struggled…
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Health
Treatment resistance in some cancer cells may be reversible
The ability of cancer cells to resist treatment with either targeted drug therapies or traditional chemotherapy may, in some cases, result from a transient state of reversible drug “tolerance.” In…
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Campus & Community
Helping outside the classroom
HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.
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Campus & Community
Reflecting on a young life
A freshman reflects on an eye-opening seminar session, designed to prompt Harvard undergrads to step back from the striving and ponder what life means to them, and what they value.
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Campus & Community
Behind the blue
Harvard’s two new deputy police chiefs discuss their transitions, and what everyday life is like covering the University.
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Campus & Community
The greening of the Law School
Harvard Law School moves aggressively to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.
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Health
A ‘mind-blowing’ day
Vermont high school students explore the human brain, with help from Harvard scholars.
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Health
Understanding the deadly deathcap
Biology Professor Anne Pringle is taking the study of one of the world’s most poisonous mushrooms out of the realm of adventure stories and into the world of ecology, in an attempt to better understand how it spreads.
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Campus & Community
The tale of the two-sport athlete
This season, soccer’s Melanie Baskind ’12 makes her return to lacrosse — and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
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Campus & Community
Taking finance up the Red Line
Stephen Blyth, managing director of the Harvard Management Company, doubles as a faculty member in the Statistics Department, bringing real-world financial acumen to studying numbers.
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Nation & World
Six from Harvard awarded fellowships for Australian research
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation recently awarded fellowships to six Harvard researchers who intend to undertake collaborative scientific research in Australia in 2010.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
A collaboration by the Foundation Alícia (Alimentació i Ciència), headed by chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli fame, and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has led…
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Campus & Community
Clooney named 2010-11 Luce Fellow
The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation have named Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Social change at ground level
Scott Ruescher’s interest in Latin America spawned a lengthy career in volunteer work — not to mention, he’s also a poet.
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Campus & Community
HBS faculty win McKinsey Awards
Three Harvard Business School professors, Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice; and Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, were recently honored with 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm…
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Campus & Community
Photographic memory
By a roundabout route, Robin Kelsey became an authority on photography, eventually becoming a professor in the field at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
HBS’s J. Sterling Livingston dies at 93
J. Sterling Livingston, a retired professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), died on Feb. 14 from multiple organ failure. He was 93.
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Campus & Community
American Chemical Society presents two with awards
Robert J. Madix, a senior research fellow in chemical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Sang-Hee Shim, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with her mentor Martin T. Zanni, an associate professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison, were…
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Campus & Community
Andrew Mattei Gleason
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2010, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Andrew Mattei Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Gleason’s best-known work is his resolution of Hilbert’s Fifth Problem.
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Campus & Community
Gazette staffer recognized for poetry
Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has been awarded a $5,000 prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. The foundation annually honors poets under the age of 40 whose work celebrates the human spirit.
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Campus & Community
Sisters in arms
Qualification for the NCAA Championships has become something of a ritual for recent members of the Harvard women’s fencing team, a far cry from the sports origins on campus dating back to 1888, but not far removed from the year the team officially came into being in 1974.
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Campus & Community
Robert C. Merton receives Kolmogorov Medal
Robert C. Merton, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School and the 1997 co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic Sciences, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service for Leon Kirchner
A memorial gathering in remembrance of Leon Kirchner, the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus, will be held on Apr. 8 (7:30-9:30 p.m.) at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council holds March 24 meeting
At its eleventh meeting of the year on March 24, the Faculty Council discussed a proposed conflict of interest policy and the report of the Committee to Review the Administrative Board.
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Campus & Community
Augustus A. White III receives Tipton award for orthopedic leadership
Augustus A. White III, the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the fifth annual William W. Tipton Jr. M.D. Leadership Award for his work as an educator, mentor, and champion of diversity initiatives.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What big questions will occupy the world’s social scientists in the coming decades? On Saturday (April 10), a dozen “big thinkers” will share their thoughts on the hardest problems in social science.
