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Campus & Community
Nichols among 10 finalists for Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award
Senior Lizzy Nichols, co-captain of the women’s soccer team, was named one of 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award for women’s soccer on Oct. 5.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Arts Medalist named
Composer, baritone saxophonist, and activist Fred Ho ’79 will be honored by Harvard University as the fall 2009 recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal on Nov. 13. He will perform in a tribute concert with the Harvard Jazz Bands on Nov. 14.
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Campus & Community
Gordon, Scales lead Crimson to victory over Cornell
For the second straight week, the Crimson’s rushing attack, which leads the Ivy League, guided the Harvard football team to victory.
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Campus & Community
Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility
Kraft Foods, Greyhound Lines and Capital One Financial have bought some strange ads on the Internet lately. What’s so strange about them is that they’re invisible.
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Campus & Community
Tweens convene for learning, support on body image
In a study about weight and body satisfaction, researchers measured the height and weight of 4,254 schoolchildren from Nova Scotia and asked them how much they agreed with the statement “I like the way I look.”
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Campus & Community
Body’s Own Antioxidant May Slow Parkinson’s Decline, Study Says
Today’s study “suggests a new approach in slowing down the rate of the disease,” said Schwarzschild, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, in an Oct. 9 telephone interview. “People live with Parkinson’s disease for decades. We want to make those decades much more manageable and keep people much more mobile….”
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Campus & Community
Women’s soccer downs Cornell, 2-0; extends winning streak to four
The temperature may be falling, but the Harvard women’s soccer team is getting hot at just the right time. After an Oct. 6 victory in which the Crimson dominated Fairfield, 4-1, Harvard traveled to Ithica, N.Y., to defeat Cornell, 2-0.
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Campus & Community
Service of Thanksgiving for Drew Faust
As the clouds cleared, the rain ceased and the sun began to break through, a new day in Harvard history dawned as the University’s first woman president, Drew Faust, was honored at a Service of Thanksgiving at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.
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Health
For economic success, channel your inner bonobo
Psychology Professor Marc Hauser dispels misconceptions about human and ape behavior with regard to patience, impulsiveness, and economic interactions in Harvard Museum of Natural History talk.
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Arts & Culture
Rare opportunity
One of the most extensive collections of rare Chinese books outside China will be digitized and made freely available to scholars worldwide as part of a six-year cooperative project between the Harvard College Library (HCL) and the National Library of China.
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Nation & World
Fundamental realities
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers a list of “fundamental realities” facing the United States in the coming years in a talk at Harvard this week, as well as a list of ways to best confront them.
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Campus & Community
A Heroine of ‘Capitalism’
Passionate and engaging, Warren has long been a fearless advocate for the middle class. She has been embraced by the left-wing blogosphere for challenging economic policymakers and has become a thorn in the side of the bankers and credit card companies, which, she insists, should be better regulated….
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Campus & Community
Scientists get closer to making safe patient-specific stem cells
But many scientists think the safest approach is to replace the genes altogether with so-called small molecules. In a study published online today in the journal Cell Stem Cell, researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute report that a single compound they dubbed RepSox can replace two of the four key reprogramming genes.
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Health
Three-dimensional structure of human genome deciphered
Scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, paving the way for new insights into genomic function and expanding our understanding of how cellular DNA folds at scales…
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Science & Tech
Wasteland and wilderness
Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.
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Health
A look inside
Scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, paving the way for new insights into genomic function and expanding our understanding of how cellular DNA folds at scales that dwarf the double helix.
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Health
Three Harvard teams to receive $9 million each in federal funding for stem cell research
Three teams of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers are slated to receive $27 million over seven years in National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) grants for the development…
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Health
Harvard team reports major step forward in cell reprogramming
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers has made a major advance toward producing induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, that are safe enough to use in…
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Campus & Community
Tom Cruises into lecture at Harvard Law
According to Harvard Law Record blogger Jessica Corsi, Cruise popped into celebrity attorney Bertram Fields’ guest lecture in professor Bruce Hay’s entertainment-law class. After announcing he had never heard his buddy lecture before, Cruise took a seat in the back of the class at Langdell South and even participated in the two-hour discussion.
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Nation & World
Focused on the future
Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Institute of Politics, uses a Harvard stage to look at the future of the Democratic Party.
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Nation & World
Educational merits of TV
A lecture series at the Harvard Graduate School of Education explores the benefits of learning through entertainment. This most recent lecture featured Neal Baer, Ed.M.’79, A.M. ’82, M.D. ’96, executive producer of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” a network television crime drama.
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Arts & Culture
Old music new again
The Music Department honored Thomas Forrest Kelly’s longtime contributions to the study of chant and performance practice with a conference called “City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music.”
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Arts & Culture
Updike papers acquired by Houghton Library
Harvard University has acquired a massive treasure trove of papers from one of its most famous literary graduates, John Updike ’54, the multifaceted novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic who died last January.
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Campus & Community
U.S. study shows mammograms save lives
“The most effective method for women to avoid death from breast cancer is to have regular mammographic screening,” Dr. Blake Cady of Cambridge Hospital Breast Center and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts told reporters in a telephone briefing…
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Campus & Community
Harvard buys Updike archive
Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of John Updike, a celebrated member of the Class of 1954 who kept a Harvard library card and frequently visited the campus to research the contemporary culture that enlivened his acclaimed fiction.
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Campus & Community
Crimson look to helmets in fight against concussions
When the Harvard Crimson men’s hockey team takes center ice later this month, it will do so with another line of defense — a new hockey helmet designed by Cascade Sports in collaboration with NHL legend Mark Messier.
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Campus & Community
Running away with another victory
Harvard running back Cheng Ho ’10 ran for 132 yards on 21 carries and two touchdowns in the Crimson’s Oct. 3, 28-14 victory over the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.
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Campus & Community
Field hockey takes down Brown for fourth win of season
There wasn’t enough rain falling from the sky to stop the Harvard field hockey team on Oct. 3 as the Crimson took down the Brown Bears in overtime, by a score of 4-3.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Sandel Says Free Markets, Bonuses, Are Not Sacrosanct
In his Harvard University course on moral reasoning, Michael Sandel asks students to consider a wide variety of contentious issues, ranging from the financial bailouts to affirmative action.
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Campus & Community
Police captain heads for Harvard
Boston police Captain James Claiborne, who was once a candidate for commissioner of the department and was at one point the highest-ranking minority member on the force, is leaving to become deputy police chief at Harvard University.