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Campus & Community
Study: Walking Seems to Lower Women’s Stroke Risk
Women can lower their stroke risk by lacing up their sneakers and walking, a new study suggests…
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Campus & Community
Radiation use may raise adult cancer risk
NEW YORK — Women’s risk of developing breast cancer may increase as much as 20-fold if they were treated with chest radiation for malignancies as children or young adults, according…
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Nation & World
Understanding health care reform
With the debate on health care reform slowing after its passage, media outlets now turn to explaining how the massive legislation will be implemented.
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Science & Tech
Cold atoms and nanotubes come together in an atomic ‘black hole’
Carbon nanotubes, long touted for applications in materials and electronics, may also be the stuff of atomic-scale black holes. Physicists at Harvard University have found that a high-voltage nanotube can…
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Science & Tech
‘Settle down,’ warns E.O. Wilson
Esteemed biologist Edward O. Wilson called for renewed efforts to understand and conserve the planet’s biodiversity, in the first of three Prather Lectures being presented this week.
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Health
Electronic medical records not a panacea?
The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, Harvard researchers from…
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Science & Tech
Understanding tiny reactions
Scientists believe that tiny carbon nanotubes may also create something like atomic-scale black holes.
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Science & Tech
Looking for life beyond Earth
Scientist Carolyn Porco explored the deeper regions of the solar system and her work with the Cassini mission to Saturn during a talk at Radcliffe.
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Health
Childhood cancer survivors may face shortened lifespan, study reveals
Although more children today are surviving cancer than ever before, young patients successfully treated in the 1970s and 80s may live a decade less, on average, than the general population,…
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Campus & Community
Special notice regarding Commencement Exercises
A special notice regarding Commencement Exercises for those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises offers guidelines for the May 27 event.
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Arts & Culture
Looking at ‘Invisible Cities’
Harvard students, in an eclectic art show, travel to real and imagined “Invisible Cities,” which simmer beneath the surface of the real.
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Science & Tech
Kicking the habit
Clean, renewable wind and solar power may be the most-preferred fossil fuel alternatives, but their land-hungry collecting requirements make them difficult options for replacing more conventional power sources, according to a British energy…
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Science & Tech
An addiction to fossil fuels
David MacKay, physics professor at Cambridge University and scientific adviser to the United Kingdom’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, outlines challenges facing efforts to eliminate fossil fuels from the world’s energy mix.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College, MIT launch pilot program
Harvard College and MIT start pilot program that allows undergraduates at each school to access each other’s libraries.
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Campus & Community
Bill Gates to speak at Sanders
Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates will visit Harvard April 21 and will speak about the importance of giving back to the community.
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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.