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Nation & World
Harvard, University of Johannesburg join forces
Education is a force for liberation, President Drew Faust told an audience Thursday (Nov. 26) at the University of Johannesburg at Soweto, where she announced that Harvard and the host university were developing an initiative to train school principals in some of South Africa’s most desperate regions.
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Nation & World
President Faust in Africa
Harvard President Drew Faust saw firsthand how Harvard is helping the African nation of Botswana to fight AIDS, when she toured facilities in two communities where a Harvard-Botswana partnership is operating anti-AIDS programs.
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Health
Cancer vaccine success
A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week (Nov. 25) in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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Campus & Community
Business journalist fellowship funded at Harvard
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has received a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a new fellowship for business reporters.
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Health
First cancer vaccine to eliminate tumors in mice
A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, a team of Harvard bioengineers and biologists report…
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Campus & Community
Dozen from New England named Rhodes Scholars
This year, 12 of the students who won the coveted award (from the 1,500 nationwide who applied) live or attend college in New England.
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Campus & Community
The Flu Fighters—in Your Food
To create immune cells to fight off a specific infection, the body has to rapidly draw nutrients from the bloodstream, says Anuraj Shankar, a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health…
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Campus & Community
Kennedy honors two
A health care entrepreneur and the first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress are the latest recipients of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award. Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Murphy and Rebecca Onie, co-founder and chief executive of Project HEALTH, were honored during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Science & Tech
‘Landscapes of Energy’
In a world marked by dams, oil fields, mines, and other energy infrastructure, scholars in a new Harvard journal begin looking at its social impact.
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Campus & Community
Levin to give Noble Lectures
Robert D. Levin, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music in the Department of Music at Harvard, will deliver the annual William Belden Noble Lectures at the Memorial Church on Dec. 1-3 at 8 p.m.
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Campus & Community
Not yet done
In its second-round NCAA tournament match against Monmouth, the men’s soccer team shows just how good it is, with a 3-0 win.
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Campus & Community
The Game, 1927
Original footage the 1927 Harvard-Yale football face off inside Harvard University Stadium.
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Campus & Community
Executives Kept Wealth as Firms Failed, Study Says
Many people on Wall Street say these examples help make the case that pay incentives were not what caused executives at these fallen firms to take excessive risks. But three professors at Harvard are disputing that logic in a new study, saying it is an urban myth that executives at Bear and Lehman were wiped…
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Campus & Community
One lab’s trash becomes a poorer one’s treasure
When Nina Dudnik arrived at Harvard Medical School in 2001 to pursue her doctorate, her eyes weren’t drawn to the marble hallways, the state-of-the-art facilities, or the august faculty.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service to honor Connors
A memorial service will be held at the Memorial Church in remembrance of Harvard in-house attorney Frank J. Connors Jr.
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Campus & Community
Five from Harvard named Rhodes Scholars
Two Harvard undergraduates and three recent graduates are among the 32 American men and women named Rhodes Scholars on Nov. 22. Each of the five will begin study next October at the University of Oxford in England.
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Campus & Community
A comeback for the ages
Crimson quarterback Collier Winters ’11 threw for 211 yards, ran for 51 yards, and threw two touchdowns on Nov. 21 as the Harvard football team came back from a 10-0, fourth-quarter to defeat the Yale Bulldogs,14-10.
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Campus & Community
Medicine Ball
In an era when big-time college football too often is tarnished by tales of disrepute – Tennessee this week dismissed two players charged with attempted armed robbery – Murphy and seven Harvard teammates who are bound for medical school represent not only the glory of The Game but the spirit of amateur football as the…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Finds Kidney Stones, Malaria Among Global-Warming Risks
Climate change from the burning of fossil fuels will add to risks to public health, said Paul Epstein, associate director of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment in Boston. The center and groups led by the American Medical Association are presenting data at a briefing today in Washington as a call for action…
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Campus & Community
Harvard-Yale clash for 126th time
On Nov. 21, the Harvard football team visits New Haven to face Yale in the 126th playing of The Game.
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Arts & Culture
Learning’s online fate
Panel says higher education is freshened, expanded, and challenged in a networked age.
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Nation & World
God and Walmart
Author and scholar Bethany Moreton examines the success of the discount retail chain Walmart and its Christian corporate ethos.
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Campus & Community
Crimson dominate Ivy awards
Crimson forwards Andre Akpan ’10 and Brian Rogers ’13 have been named 2009 Ivy Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, respectively.
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Campus & Community
More members of middle class file for bankruptcy
A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University associate professor of sociology, finds that personal bankruptcy has become a largely middle-class phenomenon led by filers who are college-educated and owners of homes…
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Nation & World
Standing at center-right in America
Norman Coleman Jr. states his case: America is a center-right nation, and the party that understands that wins elections.
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Science & Tech
Just use less
Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030.
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Nation & World
Cochran at 100
The Harvard Statistics Department marked the centennial birth year of one of its founding members, William Gemmell Cochran, with a symposium celebrating his landmark scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
Patients who lack health insurance are more likely to die from car accidents and other traumatic injuries than people who belong to a health plan — even though emergency rooms are required to care for all comers regardless of ability to pay, according to a study published today…
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Arts & Culture
Blowing his own horn
Musician Fred Ho received the Harvard Arts Medal and performed the premiere of his piece, “Take the Zen Train,” with the Harvard Jazz Bands.
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Campus & Community
Penn damages football’s title hopes
In a classic “win or go home” battle for the Ivy League Championship, Harvard and Penn went head-to-head for the 80th time on Nov. 14. In the end, Penn was not going home, defeating the Crimson by a score of 17-7.
