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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.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University has announced that the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) has joined the center.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard University students have launched the first collegiate Sarah Jane Brain Club, to explore issues surrounding pediatric traumatic brain injury, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Campus & Community
Guardian of the House
Quincy House security guard Paul Barksdale doubles as a friend, confidante, and adviser to undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
East Asian Legal Studies announces Yong Kim Memorial Prize for 2010
The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School is accepting submissions of papers for the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize, awarded to the author of the best paper concerning the law or legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia or concerning issues of law as it pertains to U.S.-East…
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What do John Keats’ Shakespeare volumes, William Wordsworth’s library catalog, and Victor Hugo’s commonplace book have in common with primers and spellers and other historical materials about learning to read? Each item is among the 1,200 books and manuscripts that are now online at a site called in Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and…
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School
For a week in late January, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after a 2009 coup in which Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by the country’s military.
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Campus & Community
Running his buns off
A student tries to help an educational nonprofit by combining two of his passions, burgers and running.
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Campus & Community
David Armitage named Royal Society of Edinburgh corresponding fellow
David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard, has been elected a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters.
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Health
Playing on our instincts
Assistant clinical professor of psychology Deirdre Barrett says that many of today’s ills come from intentional overstimulation of natural human impulses, giving people hard-to-resist appetites for everything from fighting to sex to unhealthy foods.
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Campus & Community
Two from Harvard honored for research in biological sciences
Erez Lieberman-Aiden and Mamta Tahiliani were named the 2010 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award winners for their graduate work in biological sciences.
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Campus & Community
Dana-Farber calls for artists
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is looking for artists to help create its 2010 collection of holiday cards and candle wraps.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service scheduled for James Stemble Duesenberry April 8
A service in memory of James Stemble Duesenberry, the William Joseph Maier Professor of Money and Banking Emeritus, will take place at the Memorial Church on April 8 at 2 p.m. A reception will follow at Loeb House at 17 Quincy St.
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Campus & Community
Former director of computer services, Lewis Law dies, at 77
Lewis (Lew) Law, 77, former director of computer services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), died in Belmont on Feb. 14 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for many years.
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Arts & Culture
Buddhism on the dinner plate
New book by a Harvard nutritionist and renowned monk encourages the Buddhist sense of mindfulness in how people eat.
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Arts & Culture
‘Inside/Out’
Exhibit and upcoming panel discussion probe how women have dealt with spaces over time. The exhibit is in four parts, each representing a realm within space: private, public, political, and artistic.
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Arts & Culture
The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan
Laura L. Adams, a lecturer on sociology and co-director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, delivers an insightful look into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era.
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Arts & Culture
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, a venerable critic, takes another crack at the 20th century’s greatest poets’ last works and how their style reflects their contemplations of death.
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Arts & Culture
Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy
D.N. Rodowick, a professor of visual and environmental studies, edits this collection of writings on Deleuze, a French philosopher and prolific writer on literature, film, and fine art.
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Nation & World
A church rises again
Harvard undergrads on Alternative Spring Break learn construction techniques while helping to complete a rebuilt Alabama church.
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Science & Tech
Portals into Haiti, Chile
Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis created Web clearinghouses to aid information flow in response to Haiti’s and Chile’s earthquakes.
