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Campus & Community
Yes, Harvard sweats
Known as a bastion of academe, Harvard has more Division 1 sports programs than any other college — and thousands of students in club, intramural programs.
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Campus & Community
No giving up
Despite battling three injuries in three years, senior Pat Magnarelli is here to stay.
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Campus & Community
Beanpot bound
Harvard women skate to Beanpot finals with 5-0 hockey win over Boston College.
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Campus & Community
Student concert to aid Haiti
Harvard’s student artists, in collaboration with the OfA, pull together to produce a two-hour benefit on Feb. 12 in Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Michael Jensen receives AFA award
Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), has received the 2009 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association (AFA) Award for Excellence in Financial Economics.
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Campus & Community
Stephen Burt named National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
Associate Professor of English Stephen Burt has been named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in Criticism for his book “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry.”
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Nation & World
The Haitian apocalypse
A Harvard panel looks at the Haitian crisis through the lens of both history and medicine.
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein Center announces Goldsmith winners and finalists
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has announced two winners of the Goldsmith Books Prize and six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
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Campus & Community
Daffodil Days in full bloom
At Harvard, the month of February brings the promise of spring with the kick-off of Daffodil Days, a University-wide effort to raise funds to support the fight against cancer.
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Health
Open innovation challenge seeks solutions to type 1 diabetes
The best scientific insights, which ultimately may lead to the solution of the world’s great puzzles, do not always come from the experts in the fields in question. Sometimes they…
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Campus & Community
Learning beyond the gates
Marcel Moran ’11, a biology concentrator, plans on a career in medicine. But last semester he stepped aside from problem sets and laboratory experiments to venture into a course called “Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City.”
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Campus & Community
Harvard upended by B.C.
Harvard struggled to generate any offense in its Beanpot semifinal match against Boston College, losing 6-0.
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Campus & Community
Scientists Say Crack HIV / AIDS Puzzle For Drugs
Scientists say they have solved a crucial puzzle about the AIDS virus after 20 years of research and that their findings could lead to better treatments for HIV…
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Arts & Culture
Sculptural photos
Radcliffe Fellow and artist Leslie Hewitt brings “the undeniable physical presence of objects’’ to photography.
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Science & Tech
For bonobos, it’s one for all
Daycare workers and kindergarten teachers tend to offer young humans a lot of coaching about the idea of sharing. But for our ape cousins the bonobos, sharing just comes naturally.
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Science & Tech
Toy story
Scientists have long studied how atoms and molecules structure themselves into intricate clusters. Unlocking the design secrets of nature offers lessons in engineering artificial systems that could self-assemble into desired…
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Science & Tech
Learning from toys
Using magnetic toys as inspiration, researchers tease out structures that echo self-assembled clusters of atoms and molecules.
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Campus & Community
Pudding Pot princess
Actress Anne Hathaway visits Harvard for a tour, a short parade, and a Pudding Pot as Woman of the Year.
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Nation & World
Freshman at State of Union
Harvard freshman Janell Holloway was among the guests sitting in first lady Michelle Obama’s congressional box during the State of the Union speech Wednesday.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting, Jan. 27
At its seventh meeting of the year on Jan. 27, the Faculty Council reviewed proposals to rename the Department of Literature and Comparative Literature and to establish a new concentration in biomedical engineering.
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Health
Looking at cooking
Harvard biology professor Richard Wrangham talks about the importance of cooking in human origins.
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Nation & World
Multiple interests
Howard Gardner, creator of the theory of multiple intelligences, reflects on his past breakthrough discoveries and his present policy interests during a presentation at an Askwith Forum.
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Nation & World
Attracting stronger federal workforce
Q&A with David T. Ellwood, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School: Acting in time on the government workforce.
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Arts & Culture
‘Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness’
PBS will air “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness,” a documentary that examines the towering influence of controversial anthropologist Melville Herskovits, on Feb. 2 at 10:30 p.m. as part of the series “Independent Lens.” Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal will host the program.
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Nation & World
HBS talks iPad
Four Harvard Business School professors offer their early thoughts on prospects for the new Apple iPad.
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Health
Perfect landing
New research suggests that barefoot running is far less stressful on feet than running in shoes, if runners learn how to alter their strides properly to reduce impact.
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Science & Tech
Barefoot running easier on feet than running shoes
New Harvard research casts doubt on the old adage, “All you need to run is a pair of shoes.”
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Health
Blood tells old cells to act young
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center (JDC) have taken a major step toward eventually understanding — and perhaps slowing — the aging process. In a series…
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Campus & Community
Holloway goes to Washington
When President Obama delivers his first State of the Union address tonight (Jan. 27), Harvard freshman Janell Holloway ’13 will be watching from the first lady’s box in the U.S. House chamber.
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Campus & Community
Top surgeon Atul Gawande urges doctors to use ‘The Checklist’
But surgeon Atul Gawande, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says medicine today is so complex that even the sharpest doctors can no longer keep everything they need to know in their heads.