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  • Health

    Individual primates display variation in general intelligence

    Scientists at Harvard University have shown, for the first time, that intelligence varies among individual monkeys within a species – in this case, the cotton-top tamarin.

  • Health

    Search for new tuberculosis drugs outlined

    A new drug candidate that attacks the cell walls of tuberculosis bacteria offers a promising alternative in the fight against a disease that has been resurgent in the global age of AIDS, according to findings highlighted by a key researcher Friday (June 12) at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

  • Nation & World

    BBC Radio’s prestigious Reith Lectures delivered by Sandel

    Harvard Professor Michael Sandel, chosen by the BBC to deliver its Reith Lectures for 2009, can be heard on the BBC Web site.

  • Science & Tech

    Peculiar, junior-sized supernova discovered by New York teen

    In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so.

  • Science & Tech

    Physics for the musical masses

    Harvard physicist Lisa Randall is taking Paris’ opera-going public to the fifth dimension this month, working with a composer and artist to present an opera that incorporates Randall’s theories about…

  • Campus & Community

    Vautin to serve as acting vice president for administration

    President Drew Faust announced today (June 11) that Thomas E. Vautin will be Harvard’s acting vice president for administration (VPA), effective July 1. Sally H. Zeckhauser, currently the vice president for administration, is retiring at the end of June.

  • Arts & Culture

    Peabody Museum receives grant to preserve maps, plans, and drawings

    The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    June 21, 1776 — The College reassembles in Cambridge after its eight-month stay in Concord.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    Mobile kiosk links Harvard arts events; inspires digital artists

    Passersby will soon be able to access current cultural events at Harvard through the Mobile Information Unit, an innovative, cross-disciplinary research project designed and fabricated by Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) students.

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    FAS CONFERS 17 MIND, BRAIN, AND BEHAVIOR CERTIFICATES; ‘REMEMBERING AWATOVI’ WINS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER AWARD

  • Campus & Community

    I. (Israel) David Todres

    (Israel) David Todres, Professor of Paediatrics (Anaesthesia) at Harvard Medical School, died at his home of lymphoma on Sept. 26, 2008. He was 73.

  • Campus & Community

    Jack H. Mendelson

    Jack H. Mendelson, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry (Neuroscience) at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean Hospital died on August 15, 2007, after a brief illness; he was 77 years old. Jack devoted his research career to clinical, behavioral, and biological studies of alcoholism and drug abuse.

  • Campus & Community

    Donald James Martino

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Donald James Martino, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Martino was one of the leading American composers of the twentieth century.

  • Campus & Community

    Shukri F. Khuri

    Dr. Shukri F. Khuri passed away peacefully at the age of 65, surrounded by family and friends, on September 26, 2008, at his Westwood home, after courageously battling brain cancer for more than eighteen months. A gifted and spirited surgeon and researcher, his absolute love for life enabled him to achieve remarkable professional success and…

  • Campus & Community

    Dimitri Hadzi

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 10, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Dimitri Hadzi, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Hadzi was an artist of enormous ambition and achievement.

  • Campus & Community

    M-RCBG, HKS announce Dunlop awards

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has announced that Vivek Viswanathan and Anna Katherine Barnett-Hart are the 2009 recipients of The John T. Dunlop Thesis Prize in Business and Government, awarded to the graduating senior who writes the best thesis on a challenging public policy issue at…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard-Yenching Institute’s 22 visiting scholars, fellows

    The Harvard-Yenching Institute has selected 22 visiting scholars and fellows from major universities in Asia. Established in 1928, the Harvard-Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia, with special attention to the study of Asian culture. The group of visiting scholars and fellows includes faculty members and advanced graduate students…

  • Campus & Community

    Bhat and Holland named Fisher Prize winners

    The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Harvard College senior Shubha Lakshmi Bhat and Alisha Holland, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, are the 2008-09 recipients of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.

  • Campus & Community

    Committee on African Studies awards 51 summer travel grants

    Through its Africa Initiative, the Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded 51 grants to Harvard students for travel to sub-Saharan Africa during the summer of 2009. The grants fund internships, language study, senior thesis research, master’s thesis research, and doctoral dissertation research. Twenty-four undergraduates and 27 graduate students were awarded grants, the largest number…

  • Campus & Community

    Six faculty named Cabot Fellows

    Six professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards recognize tenured faculty members for distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history, or art, broadly conceived.

  • Campus & Community

    Deadlines for summer online Harvard Gazettes

    This summer the Gazette will publish two online issues — on July 23 and Aug. 20. The deadline to get copy into the July 23 issue is July 16; the deadline for the Aug. 20 issue is Aug. 13. The first print issue of the academic year — in the Gazette’s new, redesigned format —…

  • Campus & Community

    Berrizbeitia appointed professor of landscape architecture

    Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, announced the appointment of Anita Berrizbeitia as tenured professor of landscape architecture, starting in July.

  • Campus & Community

    Fresh, local, and in your back Yard

    One of the many months of New England farm abundance, June gives us fresh beets, cabbage, collards, kale, greens, radishes, and rhubarb.

  • Science & Tech

    Green reunions: Groundwork set

    As of June 4, Harvard has celebrated 358 commencements. Add to that the simultaneous celebration of untold thousands of reunions.

  • Science & Tech

    Physics for musical masses

    Harvard physicist Lisa Randall is taking Paris’ operagoing public to the fifth dimension this month, working with a composer and artist to present an opera that incorporates Randall’s theories about extra dimensions of space.

  • Campus & Community

    Frans Spaepen named interim director of Center for Nanoscale Systems

    Frans Spaepen, director of the Rowland Institute, will serve as interim director of Harvard University’s Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) starting July 1, upon completion of his term as interim dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

  • Science & Tech

    ‘Water guy’ John Briscoe stays in motion

    For someone who deep-sixed his BlackBerry (instant e-mail was taking over his life) and traded the local newspaper for a good book (“What do I need to know about Celtics’ scores?”), John Briscoe ’76 is as worldly a person as you are ever likely to meet.

  • Science & Tech

    Trading energy for safety, bees extend legs to stay stable in wind

    New research shows some bees brace themselves against wind and turbulence by extending their sturdy hind legs while flying. But this approach comes at a steep cost, increasing aerodynamic drag and the power required for flight by roughly 30 percent, and cutting into the bees’ flight performance.

  • Campus & Community

    Highlights from a memorable Commencement

    On June 4, administrators sighed with relief at the weather, speakers went over their notes, and graduates congregated in black-tasseled flocks alongside a rainbow of professors in their own caps and gowns. Meanwhile, the Harvard Gazette staff fanned out across the campus on Commencement day to pick a rainbow of their own — colorful accounts…