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  • Campus & Community

    How-to guide for flu coverage

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard launched a comprehensive online guide to covering pandemic flu.

  • Campus & Community

    BIDMC geneticist Rinn named to Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center geneticist John Rinn, whose research has helped uncover a new class of RNA, has been named to this year’s “Brilliant 10” list of top young scientists by Popular Science magazine.

  • Campus & Community

    Building an arts bridge

    Arts Bridge is an initiative developed by recent alumni in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Now current students in the program are teaching kids from Allston and Brighton how to make their own films.

  • Campus & Community

    Alexander Hamilton Leighton

    Alexander Hamilton Leighton, whose respectful, attentive, and scholarly approach to other species colored his distinguished career in cross-cultural psychiatry at the Harvard School of Public Health, died on Aug. 11, 2007 at the age of 99.

  • Arts & Culture

    Big voice, big heart

    The Memorial Church welcomed opera virtuoso Dominique Labelle last week, who was described as genuine and gracious during her master class, proving that divas can be divas without diva behavior.

  • Campus & Community

    Green report card

    For the fourth-straight year, Harvard is at the top of the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, a report that grades the green credentials of 300 colleges and universities.

  • Campus & Community

    Hunn Award honors seven for Schools Committee work

    This year the Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools & Scholarships Award recognizes seven for their work with Harvard’s Schools Committee.

  • Campus & Community

    Gates wins Madison Freedom Award

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was presented the 2009 Madison Freedom Award at The Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16.

  • Science & Tech

    Icebreaker

    Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard’s Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers upstairs.

  • Campus & Community

    New Clues to How Fish Oils Help Arthritis Patients

    Researchers think they now understand the way that fish oils benefit people with rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions linked to inflammation. The body converts an ingredient in fish oils called DHA into a chemical called Resolvin D2, which reduces the inflammation that can lead to various diseases, the scientists from Queen Mary, University of London…

  • Campus & Community

    Allston-Brighton has its day

    Harvard has hosted its Allston and Brighton neighbors to an early reception and a football game for the past 20 years. It is a bookend to Cambridge Football Day, which was held earlier this month.

  • Campus & Community

    Arnold Arboretum invites artists to submit shirt designs for Lilac Sunday

    The Arnold Arboretum is holding a T-shirt design contest for Lilac Sunday 2010.

  • Arts & Culture

    Painting pictures in our minds

    Nobel laureate in literature Orhan Pamuk nears the end of his six-lecture Norton series on the novel’s durable attractions.

  • Campus & Community

    Freshman Parents Weekend

    In October, Freshman Parents Weekend fills campus with mothers and fathers eager to and experience all aspects of Harvard life.

  • Campus & Community

    A century of everyday learning

    Since 1910, Harvard Extension School has opened the gates of learning to half a million students.

  • Campus & Community

    Q&A with Dean Michael Shinagel

    An interview with Harvard Extension School Dean Michael Shinagel in honor of the School’s 100th anniversary.

  • Nation & World

    Wanted: Doctors for Africa

    Esther Mwaikambo is used to starting small. Until her teaching hospital was started in 1997, there was only one medical school in Tanzania, graduating 25 to 40 doctors annually.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Aura’ migraines a stroke risk

    Young women who have migraines with auras are twice as likely to have a stroke, researchers have confirmed. The investigators from the US, France and Germany did not find any link between migraines and heart attacks or death due to cardiovascular disease but there was a 30% increase in the risk of angina (heart pain).

  • Campus & Community

    The college transition

    Freshman Parents Weekend involves first-year students and family in sessions designed to smooth the transition to college.

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s volleyball looks to keep pace in Ancient Eight

    The Harvard women’s volleyball team, which split its recent games with a 3-0 sweep of Brown (Oct. 23) and a 3-0 loss to Yale (Oct. 24), is embarking on a four-game home stand.

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson stay unbeaten in Ivies

    Homecoming was all about highs and lows in Harvard’s 37-3 blowout of the Princeton Tigers on Saturday (Oct. 24).

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson fall in OT to Princeton

    Andre Akpan ’10 moved two steps closer to becoming the all-time leading scorer for men’s soccer at Harvard after scoring his ninth and 10th goals of the season on Oct. 20 and Oct. 24.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Medical School releases iPhone app to protect against swine flu

    As the threat of the swine flu (otherwise known as H1N1) pandemic become more serious and President Obama declares a national emergency over the rapidly spreading virus, Harvard Medical School is hoping to help educate people with its new iPhone app. The Swine Flu app, which is currently available on the app store, costs $1.99.

  • Science & Tech

    To tell the truth

    Harvard University study suggests that the pain of torture can make even the innocent appear guilty to those interrogating them.

  • Campus & Community

    UHS to open final seasonal flu clinics

    After a dwindling supply of vaccines forced the suspension of seasonal flu clinics, University Health Services (UHS) officials said today (Oct. 26) that it had acquired additional doses and would be able to reschedule several clinics.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 21

    At its fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 21, the Faculty Council spoke with President Drew Faust, reviewed the Dean’s Annual Report, and discussed a report from the Standing Committee on pedagogical improvement.

  • Campus & Community

    Study says 1 in 5 children lack vitamin D

    At least 1 in 5 US children ages 1 to 11 don’t get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests. By a looser measure, almost 90 percent of black children that age and 80 percent of Hispanic children could…

  • Health

    Darkness with the light

    Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk of suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments have ended, according to a study led by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber…

  • Nation & World

    Geoffrey Canada’s good works

    Geoffrey Canada was honored with the Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award for his work. The annual event is sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association and recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the public service realm.

  • Nation & World

    In praise of public service

    Even while extolling the virtues of public service, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick focused on the pitfalls of public life during remarks in an Oct. 22 Harvard Kennedy School forum on “Inspiring Public Service.”