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  • Campus & Community

    Hasty taps Hathaway

    Actress Anne Hathaway is chosen as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2010 Woman of the Year, and will visit Cambridge on Jan. 28.

  • Campus & Community

    Corporation search committee invites nominations and advice

    Members of the Harvard community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing board.

  • Campus & Community

    A first for Harvard

    For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students have applied for undergraduate admission. Applications have doubled since 1994, and about half of the increase has come since the University implemented a series of financial aid initiatives over the past five years to ensure that a Harvard College education remains accessible and affordable…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard opens skating rink in Allston

    Harvard University will open a free skating rink in Allston on Friday (Jan. 15). The 40-by-60-foot temporary indoor rink will be open to the public Fridays and weekends through March 28.

  • Health

    Zebrafish point the way

    A new technique for screening drugs’ effects on zebrafish behavior is pointing Harvard University scientists toward unexpected compounds and pathways that may govern sleep in humans.

  • Campus & Community

    Mathematician gains dual appointments

    Sophie Morel, a young mathematician whose research involves algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory, is named professor of mathematics in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She also is named to the Radcliffe Alumnae Professorship.

  • Health

    Fishing for new medications

    A robust new technique for screening drugs’ effects on zebrafish behavior is pointing Harvard scientists toward unexpected compounds and pathways that may govern sleep and wakefulness in humans. Among their…

  • Campus & Community

    Xie to receive award from DOE

    Harvard Professor Sunney Xie was one of six recipients of the 2009 E.O. Lawrence Award.

  • Campus & Community

    Catching up on lost sleep a dangerous illusion

    People who are chronically sleep-deprived may think they’re caught up after a 10-hour night of sleep, but new research shows that although they’re near-normal when they awake, their ability to function deteriorates markedly as night falls…

  • Nation & World

    Harvard responds to Haiti crisis

    A catastrophic earthquake in Haiti Tuesday (Jan. 12) has prompted a rapid-fire response of broad-based medical and humanitarian assistance from Harvard and its affiliates.

  • Health

    Chronic sleep loss degrades nighttime performance

    Although the exact function of sleep remains unknown, sleep is clearly necessary for optimal cognitive performance, learning, and memory.

  • Campus & Community

    H1N1 vaccine clinic

    Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received a new shipment of H1N1 influenza vaccine and will distribute it at a clinic open to all members of the Harvard community under age 65.

  • Health

    Doubts about health care reform

    A group of Harvard scholars and visiting health care experts offers a pessimistic view of health care reform at a Harvard Medical School symposium.

  • Campus & Community

    It’s not easy being Big Green

    Surging Harvard men’s basketball team runs away from Dartmouth, 76-47, to continue best start in its 99-year history.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard China internship program open to Harvard College students

    The Harvard China Student Internship Program is accepting applications through Jan. 29.

  • Arts & Culture

    Defining themselves

    Two daguerreotypes recently acquired by the Harvard Art Museum’s Department of Photographs show a distinguished African-American man and a woman, countering stereotypes of the day.

  • Campus & Community

    Toxic Metal Found in Kids’ Jewelry Very Dangerous

    Cadmium is particularly dangerous for children because growing bodies readily absorb substances, and cadmium accumulates in the kidneys for decades.

  • Health

    Quantum (not digital) computing

    Study uses quantum computing to make calculations, in a breakthrough that could change myriad fields, including cryptography and materials science.

  • Health

    Light worsens migraine headaches

    Normal 0 0 1 701 4001 33 8 4913 11.1282 0 0 0 Ask people who suffer from migraine headaches what they do when they’re having attacks, and you’re likely…

  • Health

    Evolution and ailments

    The pressures of human evolution could explain the apparent rise of disorders such as autoimmune diseases and autism, researchers say. Some adaptations may even help such ailments persist.

  • Nation & World

    A new system for measuring poverty

    HKS researchers present new calculus for comparing poverty levels and changes over time, and between countries. The authors say the U.S. “war on poverty” produced significant gains in the 1990s compared with the ’80s.

  • Health

    Tracking our traits

    Researchers devise method to pinpoint key genetic variations under positive natural selection that may impact human health.

  • Health

    Tracking genetic traits over time

    Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history, but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they…

  • Health

    Coronary artery disease more severe in HIV-infected men, study finds

    Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found that relatively young men with longstanding HIV infection and minimal cardiac risk factors had significantly more coronary atherosclerotic plaques — some…

  • Nation & World

    HKS receives $20.5M for Asia studies

    Harvard Kennedy School receives $20.5 million gift to start program and institute pointed at key issues confronting rapidly growing Asian countries.

  • Campus & Community

    Swim School offering spring classes

    The Harvard Swim School, which provides swimming and diving lessons for adults and children (ages 5 and up), will offer Saturday morning classes (March 27-May 1) at Blodgett Pool and the Malkin Athletic Center.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard prof receives IIT-M distinguished alumnus award

    “Why do you read Shakespeare? And you don’t learn plumbing and electrical work because they are useful in daily life, do you?” responds Harvard University professor L Mahadevan when he’s asked about the relevance of mathematics in daily life.

  • Campus & Community

    Thompson wins writing grant

    Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson wins creative-writing fellowship to research her book project on how the Polynesians came to settle the Pacific region.

  • Campus & Community

    Mass. lags on homes for assisted living

    Assisted living has rapidly emerged over the past decade as the long-term care of choice for older Americans, but a Harvard Medical School study reveals that in Massachusetts, this type of housing is far less available than it is nationwide.