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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.
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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.