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Campus & Community
The HGLC announces fellowship for summer 2010
The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) is encouraging all current full-time students at Harvard to apply to the HGLC Public Service Fellowship, made possible with support from The Open Gate Foundation.
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Health
Reflections on a catastrophe
Assistant Professor of Medicine Louise Ivers shares her story of being caught in the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Campus & Community
Inside electronic commerce
Harvard’s David C. Parkes studies the intersection of computer science and economics in order to simplify decision making.
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Campus & Community
Allston-Brighton’s ice capades
Harvard extends temporary public ice rink through March, and opens Bright Center to community. University issues grants to Allston-Brighton neighborhood groups.
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Nation & World
A Salvadoran snapshot
An HGSE student project over January break leads young students to create photographic art, along with exhibits in two countries.
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Campus & Community
Two Harvard College seniors named Churchill Scholars
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States has awarded two Harvard College seniors Zhou Fan and Yi Sun Churchill Scholarships for 2010-11.
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Nation & World
Overseas, violence against women
In some Muslim societies, the tension between genders can lapse into violence. Some Radcliffe Fellows can tell that tale.
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Campus & Community
Setting up House
New Winthrop House masters, the first African Americans in those roles at Harvard, juggle duties as teachers, researchers, student mentors, and parents of a new baby.
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Campus & Community
HKS’s Kokkalis program to offer executive training in Greece
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Kokkalis Program on Southeast and East-Central Europe will host a four-day HKS executive training program May 31-June 3 titled “Leading, Innovating and Negotiating: Critical Strategies for Public Sector Executives.”
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Campus & Community
Michael Rabin to share in $1M prize
Michael O. Rabin of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has been named a 2010 Dan David Prize laureate.
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Campus & Community
Bottom line gets a touch of green
In a University-wide race to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases, Harvard Business School shares its strategies for technology and behavior.
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Nation & World
Donations that make a difference
First grants from Harvard fund to aid Haitian community in helping employees to take care of their families.
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Campus & Community
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation taps seven from Harvard
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded seven Harvard faculty members Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
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Campus & Community
Undefeated, and national champions
Perfection is never easy to achieve, but the No. 1-ranked Harvard women’s squash team surely made it look that way.
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Arts & Culture
The lizard king
Researcher Jonathan Losos devotedly studies the anole lizard, and has compiled decades of research into a new book.
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Campus & Community
Electronic ‘iShoe’ aims to prevent falls
Erez Lieberman-Aiden had a nagging feeling that his grandmother’s death, which occurred after a hard fall, could have been prevented.
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Campus & Community
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation taps seven from Harvard
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded seven Harvard faculty members Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
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Campus & Community
An education that works on two levels
Harvard Kennedy School student Nizar Farsakh talks about what makes the School work, citing its two-pronged approach involving faculty with real-world experience and students with varied backgrounds, all with a willingness to entertain other points of view.
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Campus & Community
Nieman Foundation awards Worth Bingham Prize to Raquel Rutledge
Raquel Rutledge, from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has been chosen as winner of the Nieman Foundation’s Worth Bingham Prize, awarded annually to honor investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute
Radcliffe Magazine, the signature publication of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and successor to the Radcliffe Quarterly, debuted in late February
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Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson awarded highest external honor by U.Va.
E.O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, the highest external honor given by the University of Virginia.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is losing a faculty member to the federal government, even as it regains one.
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Arts & Culture
Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography named
The Peabody Museum has named Stephen Dupont, a prize-winning Australian photographer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair magazine, Time magazine, and Rolling Stone, the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts & Sciences
“Harvard Shorts” is not stock market lingo, nor abbreviated pants for wearing on a treadmill. It’s a new University-wide digital movie contest, sponsored by the Division of Humanities.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating a green campus
The Green Carpet awards ceremony will premier this spring honoring Harvard faculty, students, and staff who have made significant contributions to greenhouse gas reduction and sustainability at Harvard. Submission deadline is April 15.
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Campus & Community
Henry Louis Gates Jr. honored with NAACP Image Award
Henry Louis Gates Jr. received the 41st NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work (nonfiction) for his book “In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past.”
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Campus & Community
Waxman, Adams will lead Harvard Overseers
Harvard overseers elect Seth Waxman and Mitchell Adams as senior officers for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Researcher receives grant to study Haiti-American emergency preparedness
Researcher Linda Marc has received a grant from the Harvard School of Public Health to examine public health and emergency preparedness in Haitian-Americans. Marc is based at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard-affiliated health system.
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Campus & Community
Heart test debate heats up
Two studies published yesterday are expected to reignite an emotionally charged debate about whether young athletes should be screened with a heart test to reduce the small risk of sudden death from an undiagnosed heart problem.
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Arts & Culture
The many beats of Cultural Rhythms
Performers from Harvard University’s ethnically diverse student groups gather each year at Sanders Theatre to participate in the annual Cultural Rhythms showcase.
