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Health
60 minutes of exercise per day needed for middle-aged women to maintain weight
If a middle-aged or older woman with a normal body mass index wants to maintain her weight over an extended period, she must engage in the equivalent of 60 minutes…
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Arts & Culture
A celebration of substance
The Weissman Preservation Center celebrates 10 years of treating and safeguarding rare books, manuscripts, scores, and photos for the Harvard Library system.
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Campus & Community
Harvard launches on iTunes U
Harvard University today launched its own content on iTunes U, a dedicated area within iTunes that allows students, faculty, alumni, and visitors to tap into the University’s wealth of public lectures and educational materials on video and audio.
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Campus & Community
Chicago Tribune wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers
The Chicago Tribune has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for “Clout Goes to College,” its evenhanded and thorough investigation of improper influence peddling in the admissions process at the University of Illinois.
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Campus & Community
David Fanning to receive the Goldsmith Career Award
David Fanning, executive producer of “Frontline,” will be recognized for his distinguished broadcast journalism career by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy on March 23 at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Health
Replacing those saturated fats
In a new study, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health find that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated ones is likely to help reduce the risk of heart disease.
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Health
Polyunstaturated fats may cut risk of heart disease
Although for nearly 60 years people have been urged to decrease their consumption of saturated fats to prevent heart disease, there has been surprisingly little scientific evidence that doing so actually decreases the risk of coronary heart disease events
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Campus & Community
Taking the title
In his last collegiate match, Crimson wrestler J.P. O’Connor capped off a dominant season and career at Harvard by taking the 157-pound national title at the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Neb., on March 20.
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Campus & Community
Coming soon: Harvard garden
Harvard will start gardens for growing food in April, with students taking a lead role.
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Nation & World
HBS’s Herzlinger on health care
Podcast interview on health care reform with Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
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Health
“Good” cells can go “bad” in a “bad neighborhood”
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 375 2142 Harvard University 17 4 2630 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false The general theory of cancer development holds…
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Nation & World
Harvard Center Shanghai opens its doors
Intellectual inquiry and practical action were both on rich display at “Harvard and China: A Research Symposium,” a series of lectures, panels, and break out sessions held to mark the official opening of the Harvard Center Shanghai on March 18.
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Campus & Community
Competing on a national stage
Harvard wrestlers Louis Caputo ’10, J.P. O’Connor ’10, and Steven Keith ’13 travel to Omaha, Neb., to compete at this year’s NCAA Wrestling Championships.
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Campus & Community
US ski Paralympian overcomes rare disease
Cailtin Sarubbi is on leave from her freshman year at Harvard to race on the U.S. Ski Team at the 2010 Paralympics.
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Nation & World
Harvard in Japan
As President Drew Faust becomes the eighth Harvard president to visit Japan, faculty members are sending back dispatches about cultural and historical aspects of her visit.
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Campus & Community
Harvard increases undergraduate financial aid by 9 percent for 2010-11
Harvard College will increase financial aid for undergraduates by 9 percent, to a record $158 million, for the upcoming 2010-11 academic year.
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Campus & Community
New cancer drug screening method created
Scientists affiliated with Harvard Medical School say they’ve developed a laboratory technique that improves on traditional methods of screening potential anti-cancer drugs.
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Arts & Culture
Witnesses to history
Andover-Harvard Theological Library nears completion of major project to digitize Holocaust-related archives.
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Campus & Community
Hard look at harsh times
History professor Caroline Elkins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book outlining British colonial abuses during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising, is working to build ties with Kenyan institutions.
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Arts & Culture
Cowboy’s tale
Husband-and-wife filmmakers chronicle a dying way of life and humanity with their new film “Sweetgrass.”
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Nation & World
Beyond boundaries
As a global university, Harvard not only attracts students and faculty from around the world, it sends them out, to teach and work, extending Harvard’s influence far beyond its local boundaries.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard School of Public Health
A new firearms research database launched by the Harvard School of Public Health makes scholarly articles about the topic more accessible to reporters, law enforcement agents, public health officials, policymakers, and the public.
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Campus & Community
Three HLS students recognized for outstanding writing
Three Harvard Law School students have been awarded prizes for outstanding written work.
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Campus & Community
Six from Harvard named Paul and Daisy Soros fellows
Out of 890 applications nationwide, six individuals from Harvard have been awarded 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.
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Campus & Community
Shinagel wins Frandson Award for ‘The Gates Unbarred’
Michael Shinagel, dean of the Harvard University Extension School, has won the 2009 Frandson Award for Literature, given annually by the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), for his book “The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910-2009.”
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Campus & Community
Crimson fall hard
The Harvard women’s hockey team couldn’t hold back surging Cornell.
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Campus & Community
HKS seeks grant proposals on Kuwait
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now accepting applications for the spring 2010 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.