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Campus & Community
KITA and Harvard connect to advance Korean Scholarship
Harvard University and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) recently announced an agreement (Dec. 10) to advance modern Korean scholarship at the University.
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Campus & Community
Lin takes home Ivy League Player of the Week award
Jeremy Lin ’10 was named Ivy Player of the Week for the third time this season.
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Campus & Community
Dowling awarded the Glenn A. Fry Medal in Physiological Optics
John E. Dowling, the Gordon and Llura Gund Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard, was awarded the Glenn A. Fry Medal in Physiological Optics during a ceremony at the Great Lakes Vision Research Conference in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 21.
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Campus & Community
Harvard School of Public Health predoctoral grant available
Predoctoral training slots are available for the spring 2010 term on the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) training grant “Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Biodefense.” HSPH students from all departments are encouraged to apply.
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Campus & Community
HSPH honors The New York Times
The Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) Center for Health Communication honored The New York Times at a luncheon event at the Harvard Club of New York City on Dec. 4 for “distinguished journalism in public health.”
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Campus & Community
Jordan scholars honored at luncheon
Longtime supporters of Harvard College financial aid, Gerald R. (Jerry) Jordan Jr. and his family established the Gerald Jordan Family Scholarship in 1995-96 to ensure that undergraduate students in need of financial support are able to attend the College.
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Campus & Community
Fulbright Scholars Program awards 21 from Harvard with grants
Twenty-one foreign scholars and professionals from Harvard have been named Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipients for 2009-10.
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Campus & Community
Alastair Graham Walter Cameron
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 19, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Alastair Graham Walter Cameron, Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Alastair Cameron’s theory is now the accepted one for the origin of the Moon.
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Campus & Community
Akpan of the men’s soccer team named Hermann Trophy finalist
Andre Akpan ’10 has been named one of three finalists for the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy, which honors the top Division I college soccer player in the country.
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Campus & Community
CCSR annual report now available for 2009
The 2009 annual report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility.
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Campus & Community
Lippert lauded with Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors
Victoria Lippert ’13 of the Harvard women’s basketball team (6-3) was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Dec. 12 after tallying 21 points and 10 rebounds in the Crimson’s 90-85 double-overtime win against Northeastern (Dec. 9).
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Campus & Community
Bruno, Hierl receive Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service
Thomas Bruno, head of resource sharing at Widener Library, and Sebastian Hierl, librarian for Western Europe, have been named the winners of the 2009 Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service in the Harvard College Library (HCL).
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Campus & Community
Gates honored with Morry Award
Project Morry presented Henry Louis Gates Jr. with its annual award on Nov. 19.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools
As part of a student-initiated community development project to promote civic engagement and rural development in the Mississippi Delta, nine Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students will spend 10 days in January in Greenwood, Miss. working on service projects for the community.
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Campus & Community
Inaugural Burke Global Health Fellows named
The Provost and Deans Committee of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) announced the selection of the 2009 Burke Global Health Fellows.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Graduate School of Education
A group of students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will give the gift of literacy this holiday season while on a service-learning trip to Caluco, El Salvador.
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Campus & Community
A joyful noise
The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College celebrate the African-American aural tradition, and have done so for almost 40 years.
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Campus & Community
Eric Beerbohm appointed director of Graduate Fellowships
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics recently announced the appointment of Eric Beerbohm as director of the Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowships in Ethics.
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Health
Want to live well?
Harvard faculty members from a range of fields give tips on how to live healthy.
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Campus & Community
New Stroke Tool May Predict Early Recurrence
Researchers have developed a tool to predict whether a patient will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke.
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Campus & Community
A Sultry World Is Found Orbiting a Distant Star
Astronomers said Wednesday that they had discovered a planet composed mostly of water.
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Arts & Culture
Indian College found?
Students digging in Harvard Yard may have found remnant evidence of Indian College, one of Harvard’s earliest buildings.
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Health
Shifts in health care landscape
Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk delivered the Barmes Global Health Lecture Dec. 15 at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, saying that new challenges and opportunities face the global health community amidst a changing health care landscape.
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Science & Tech
Study: Polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming
A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth’s sea level, carried out by scientists at Harvard and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, employs…
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Campus & Community
New director of I Tatti
Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman announced Dec. 16 that Lino Pertile will become director of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, beginning next summer.
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Campus & Community
Florida A&M, Harvard study link between lead and hypertension
A machine that looks as if it can emit a laser beam may be key to determining why many adults in Gadsden County have high-blood pressure.
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Campus & Community
Survey Finds Travelers Taking Health Precautions
More than half of adult travelers say they are taking more precautions against flu this year compared to last year, according to a poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Campus & Community
Houghton to conclude Corporation service
James R. Houghton, the longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation and chair of the University’s 2006-07 presidential search, today announced his plans to step down at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, after 15 years on the Corporation.
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Campus & Community
Harvard gets $500k gift for history museum
The Harvard Museum of Natural History has received its largest donation since its founding in 1998. The $500,000 commitment from a Harvard University alumnus will help fund a permanent multi-media exhibition…