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  • Campus & Community

    House masters appointed

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, announced the appointment of three House masters: Douglas Melton, Christie McDonald, and Rakesh Khurana.

  • Arts & Culture

    Performance as art

    Performance artist Andrea Fraser discussed some of the inspiration behind her work and her current installation on view at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, during a discussion at Harvard’s Barker Center.

  • Nation & World

    Forge ahead, and build your brand

    In a panel discussion celebrating the Harvard Extension School’s centennial, three speakers discuss the moribund economy, offering advice that job seekers plunge ahead and reinvent themselves to prosper in the changed marketplace.

  • Campus & Community

    It’s lights out

    For the second consecutive year, Harvard University will join the city of Boston by turning out the lights for “Earth Hour,” a major community awareness event about climate change, taking place in Boston and cities worldwide.

  • Health

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder knows no international boundaries

    The diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has come a long way since the 1970s, with research now showing it is both more common and more treatable than once thought. While early doubters dismissed the condition as a Western phenomenon that arose because researchers pathologized a nonmedical condition, subsequent research identified physiological changes to…

  • Health

    Internet offers risks as well as benefit to patients

    The Internet has had a profound effect on clinical practice by providing both physicians and patients with a wealth of information. But with those rewards come risks of incorrect or poorly interpreted information that require that a doctor “never be optional,” warn Harvard physicians Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center…

  • Arts & Culture

    A.R.T. announces two new executive appointments

    Diane Borger has been named A.R.T. producer and Tiffani Gavin has been named the director of finance and administration at the A.R.T.

  • Health

    Post-traumatic stress

    Terry Keane, a longtime PTSD researcher and associate chief of staff for research and development at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, says researchers in recent years have learned much about post-traumatic stress, including that it is both more prevalent and more treatable than previously supposed.

  • Health

    ‘I thought a bomb went off’

    As twilight fell over Port-au-Prince that first terrible night after Haiti’s January earthquake, Louise Ivers watched a strange cloud of dust settle over the city. Stirred by buildings collapsing as the late afternoon quake struck, the cloud was pierced only by sound, a rising chorus of screams from across the capital as the toll became…

  • Campus & Community

    Earthwatch comes to Allston

    Earthwatch Institute, a leading international nonprofit environmental group, announces plans to move its headquarters and staff to a Harvard-owned building in Allston. The group hopes to build partnerships with the community and the University.

  • Campus & Community

    Charting the leatherbacks

    Earthwatch volunteers join in-the-field scientists to help document environmental conditions.

  • Campus & Community

    Earthwatch Institute moves world headquarters to Harvard property in Allston

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Earthwatch Institute, a leading international nonprofit environmental organization, will move its world headquarters to the Allston neighborhood of Boston this spring, Harvard University announced today (March 24).

  • Campus & Community

    Painkillers may lower risk of breast and ovarian cancers: Harvard researchers

    Harvard researchers find that painkillers reduce levels of the female hormone oestrogen in the system which can fuel certain forms of cancer…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard opens classes to all, online

    Harvard University yesterday launched its own version of iTunes U, on a dedicated portion of iTunes…

  • Health

    60 minutes of exercise per day needed for middle-aged women to maintain weight

    If a middle-aged or older woman with a normal body mass index wants to maintain her weight over an extended period, she must engage in the equivalent of 60 minutes per day of physical activity at a moderate intensity, according to new findings by Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). “There is plenty…

  • Arts & Culture

    A celebration of substance

    The Weissman Preservation Center celebrates 10 years of treating and safeguarding rare books, manuscripts, scores, and photos for the Harvard Library system.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard launches on iTunes U

    Harvard University today launched its own content on iTunes U, a dedicated area within iTunes that allows students, faculty, alumni, and visitors to tap into the University’s wealth of public lectures and educational materials on video and audio.

  • Campus & Community

    Chicago Tribune wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers

    The Chicago Tribune has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for “Clout Goes to College,” its evenhanded and thorough investigation of improper influence peddling in the admissions process at the University of Illinois.

  • Campus & Community

    David Fanning to receive the Goldsmith Career Award

    David Fanning, executive producer of “Frontline,” will be recognized for his distinguished broadcast journalism career by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy on March 23 at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Health

    Replacing those saturated fats

    In a new study, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health find that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated ones is likely to help reduce the risk of heart disease.

  • Health

    Polyunstaturated fats may cut risk of heart disease

    Although for nearly 60 years people have been urged to decrease their consumption of saturated fats to prevent heart disease, there has been surprisingly little scientific evidence that doing so actually decreases the risk of coronary heart disease events

  • Campus & Community

    Taking the title

    In his last collegiate match, Crimson wrestler J.P. O’Connor capped off a dominant season and career at Harvard by taking the 157-pound national title at the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Neb., on March 20.

  • Campus & Community

    Coming soon: Harvard garden

    Harvard will start gardens for growing food in April, with students taking a lead role.

  • Nation & World

    HBS’s Herzlinger on health care

    Podcast interview on health care reform with Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  • Health

    “Good” cells can go “bad” in a “bad neighborhood”

    Normal.dotm 0 0 1 375 2142 Harvard University 17 4 2630 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false The general theory of cancer development holds that malignancies occur because of the presence of certain genetic elements within the affected cells. But a new study by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General…

  • Nation & World

    Harvard Center Shanghai opens its doors

    Intellectual inquiry and practical action were both on rich display at “Harvard and China: A Research Symposium,” a series of lectures, panels, and break out sessions held to mark the official opening of the Harvard Center Shanghai on March 18.

  • Campus & Community

    Competing on a national stage

    Harvard wrestlers Louis Caputo ’10, J.P. O’Connor ’10, and Steven Keith ’13 travel to Omaha, Neb., to compete at this year’s NCAA Wrestling Championships.

  • Campus & Community

    US ski Paralympian overcomes rare disease

    Cailtin Sarubbi is on leave from her freshman year at Harvard to race on the U.S. Ski Team at the 2010 Paralympics.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard in Japan

    As President Drew Faust becomes the eighth Harvard president to visit Japan, faculty members are sending back dispatches about cultural and historical aspects of her visit.