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Campus & Community
Men’s soccer escapes Yale in double overtime
The No. 6 Harvard men’s soccer team traveled to New Haven, Conn., Oct. 3 to defeat the Yale Bulldogs, 1-0, in double overtime.
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Health
Jack Szostak 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Jack Szostak, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work in the…
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Health
How does a worm build a throat?
Mention worms to most people, and they probably think of fishing, gardening, or trips to the vet. Mention them to Susan E. Mango, and she begins telling you how “absolutely…
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Health
Not having health insurance is expensive
New findings from researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) demonstrate that individuals who were either continuously or intermittently uninsured between the ages of 51 and 64 cost Medicare more than…
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Campus & Community
University Presidents Panel: Higher Ed after the Crash
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, on a panel with three other university presidents at the First Draft of History conference, noted that the crash has occasioned a moment of stocktaking, in which universities have been reminded the importance of keeping focus on the “the long view.” Universities, unlike corporations, should not be focused on the…
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Campus & Community
Claiborne and Giacoppo appointed HUPD deputy chiefs
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is pleased to announce the hiring of two senior level managers, James Claiborne and Michael Giacoppo, to serve as deputy chiefs for operations.
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Campus & Community
‘Immortality Enzyme’ Wins Three Americans Nobel Prize
Three American scientists, including Jack W. Szostak, genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for research linked to telomerase, an “immortality enzyme” that allows cells to divide continuously without dying and could play a role in the uncontrolled spread of cancer cells.
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Campus & Community
Nobel Prize in Medicine shared by Harvard Medical School professor
Jack W. Szostak, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, is one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year, with Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine….
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Campus & Community
Telomerase work wins Szostak Nobel Prize in medicine
Jack W. Szostak, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work on cellular structures called telomeres, which protect chromosomes from degradation.
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Campus & Community
After 100+ years, a first: homecoming at Harvard
The nation’s oldest university, which has been handing out homework since 1636 and handing off footballs since 1874, will host its first homecoming this fall, a potential new tradition designed to attract alumni to campus in years that The Game is played at Yale.
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Campus & Community
Match Game: A Modest Proposal on Revamping Law-Firm Hiring
Law Professor Asish Nanda (pictured) said he is leading a movement to reform the recruiting process that would entail transitioning law schools to a system similar to the method medical schools use to match students with residencies.
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Campus & Community
Understanding the Anxious Mind
Jerome Kagan’s “Aha!” moment came with Baby 19. It was 1989, and Kagan, a professor of psychology at Harvard, had just begun a major longitudinal study of temperament and its effects. Temperament is a complex, multilayered thing, and for the sake of clarity, Kagan was tracking it along a single dimension: whether babies were easily…
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Science & Tech
Donald Ingber awarded the 2009 BMES Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship for outstanding achievements, originality and leadership
Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, has been awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s prestigious Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship for 2009.…
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Science & Tech
Invisible matters
A new study seeking to answer the question of why some galaxies are extremely dark compared with others may eventually help to explain the formation of all galaxies, according to…
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Arts & Culture
Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Business is about adapting and acting — and in an uncertain world, these authors prove that if you want to be a leader, you’ve got to have skills.
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Arts & Culture
The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life
This alumnus and Continuing Ed professor says embracing the highs and lows of being human leads to happiness. So leave your android perfection behind and get real.
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Arts & Culture
Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy
This thoughtful tome assesses the growth of government and subsequent outsourcing of work to private organizations. Freeman and Minow dig deep and ask: What’s efficient and who’s accountable?
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Health
Re-examining Darwin’s thoughts on species
Radcliffe Fellow James Mallet says Darwin’s idea of speciation as a step in a continuum of differences reflects reality in nature.
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Campus & Community
Risking unknown roads
Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, marks an anniversary moment at Morning Prayers.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held on Sept. 30
At its third meeting of the year (Sept. 30), the Faculty Council heard a review of the Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine. The council also continued a discussion of the nomenclature of the Harvard Extension School and its degrees, as well as a proposal to change some of the procedures of the…
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Campus & Community
Wednesday Tea
Tea time at Harvard is a longstanding tradition. The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes remarks on drinking tea at Harvard in 1968 while drinking tea today.
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Campus & Community
Caroline Elkins named professor of history
Historian Caroline Elkins, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her book “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya,” has been named professor of history at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Autism’s genetic roots examined in new government-funded study
Researchers at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston will sequence the genomes of at least 85 people diagnosed with autism in a bid to tease out the genetic basis for some cases of the neuropsychiatric disorder.
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Campus & Community
Earth’s ‘Boring Billion’ Years Blamed on Sulfur-Loving Microbes
“If we really want to understand what’s happed in the history of Earth, we really have to understand this cross talk between the physical and biological processes,” says study coauthor Andrew Knoll of Harvard University.
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Arts & Culture
The story from beginning to end
Norton Greenberger, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has written a book about the hidden world of digestion — and no holds are barred.
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Campus & Community
Carpio rising
Worlds of poverty and wealth, constraint and liberation, bring literary scholar Glenda R. Carpio to Harvard stardom.
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Campus & Community
Bringing plants, technology together
Donna Tremonte of the Harvard Herbaria loves plants so much that she travels to far-flung locales like Africa and Venezuela to study them. But that’s just part of her job.
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Nation & World
Law students venture into new field
First-time online sports and entertainment law journal created by Harvard Law School students offers a new scholarly outlet
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Campus & Community
CPL names Karen Tse winner of international activist award
The HKS Center for Public Leadership (CPL) has named legal pioneer Karen Tse as this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman International Activist Award.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute
The Radcliffe Institute’s first decade is being celebrated this fall, starting with a two-day symposium Oct. 8 and 9 — a star-power taste of the institute’s signature interdisciplinary exchanges.
