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Campus & Community
Sobering poems, more sobering oration mark PBK
Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) chapter first met in 1781, two years before the end of the Revolutionary War.
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Campus & Community
At ROTC commissioning, Faust touts idea of ‘soldier-scholar’
Barron, Bilotti, Bras, Chiappini, Doohovskoy, Kristol, Pellegrini, West. That’s roll call for eight 2009 Harvard graduates who were commissioned late Wednesday morning (June 3). Five are new officers in the U.S. Army and three in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Campus & Community
Faust bids farewell to 2009’s ‘improvisers’
Harvard President Drew Faust shared final words of wisdom with the Class of 2009 Tuesday (June 2), sending them into a newly uncertain world with assurances that their liberal arts education gives them the ability to improvise in changing times.
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Campus & Community
Ten honorary degrees awarded at Commencement
Harvard University has conferred today (June 4) honorary degrees on 10 outstanding individuals: Energy Secretary Steven Chu, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, author Joan Didion, religious historian Wendy Doniger, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, immunologist Anthony S. Fauci, anthropologist Sarah Hrdy, engineer Robert Langer, musician Wynton Marsalis, and political scientist Sidney Verba.
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Health
Shining light on leptin’s role in brain
In investigating the complex neurocircuitry behind weight gain and glucose control, scientists have known that the hormone leptin plays a key role in the process. But within the myriad twists…
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Health
Researchers solve ‘bloodcurdling’ mystery
By applying cutting-edge techniques in single-molecule manipulation, researchers at Harvard University have uncovered a fundamental feedback mechanism that the body uses to regulate the clotting of blood. The finding, which…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Class Day 2009
Journalist Matt Lauer joins student orators in a humor-filled afternoon of informal celebration.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to participate in Yellow Ribbon Veterans Education Program
President Drew Faust announced a partnership with the federal government today that will help America’s military veterans obtain a Harvard education.
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Health
How growing cells move together
Our cells are more than inert bags of proteins and genes whose complex signaling networks confound the world’s most powerful computers. They also have a physical side whose brawny feats…
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Science & Tech
Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks
More than a decade after Harvard Medical School researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks – prompting calls upon them to divest…
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Campus & Community
Faces of the Future: Harvard Class of 2009
What do music therapy, midwifery, ballet, graphic art, physics, finance, and the study of military culture have in common? They are practiced at the highest levels of commitment and excellence by the Harvard graduates profiled here.
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Health
Video can help patients make end-of-life decisions
Viewing a video showing a patient with advanced dementia interacting with family and caregivers may help elderly patients plan for end-of-life care, according to a study led by Massachusetts General…
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Health
DFCI cancer research highlights age-related treatment effectiveness, patient cost concerns
New research from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute highlights age-related responses to colon cancer treatment and patient attitudes toward cost of drugs to manage side effects. Research presented at the American…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 13, 1958 — On the steps of Widener Library, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society perform choruses from Bach’s B-minor Mass. Although the groups have performed together for decades, the occasion marks the Choral Society’s first participation in a Glee Club outdoor concert.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online athttp://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Niall Kirkwood honored for work in landscape architecture
Niall Kirkwood, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and professor of landscape architecture and technology at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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Campus & Community
Beaudry and Theodore named Trudeau Scholars
The Trudeau Foundation has recently awarded two 2009 Trudeau Scholars scholarships to doctoral candidates Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry and David Theodore. Beaudry, currently pursuing a juridical science doctorate at Harvard Law School, and Theodore, an architecture and urban planning doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, were among the 15 scholars who will each receive…
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Campus & Community
Judah Folkman
Judah Folkman was born Moses Judah Folkman in 1933. The son of a rabbi, he became inspired to become a physician as a young boy when visiting ailing members of the congregation with his father. He soon became fascinated with science and medicine, and as a high school student he devised a perfusion system in…
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Campus & Community
GSE’s Corriveau lands funding for research
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Board of Trustees named Kathleen Corriveau, a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as a 2009 APF Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship recipient. The $25,000 fellowship will support Corriveau’s research during the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Five grad students named Rappaport Fellows
Five Harvard graduate students — Meghan Haggerty, Devin Lyons-Quirk, Jessica Hohman, Antoniya Owens, and Michael Long — are among the 12 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.
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Campus & Community
Undergrads tackle issues in practical ethics
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has announced this year’s recipients of the Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics. Five Harvard College students have been awarded grants to carry out summer projects on a variety of important subjects.
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Campus & Community
Nieman Foundation chooses 24 for its 72nd class of Nieman Fellows
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 24 journalists from the United States and abroad to join the 72nd class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes print and multimedia reporters and editors; radio and television journalists; photographers; book authors; a filmmaker; and a columnist.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe recognizes its distinguished alumnae
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced the 2009 Radcliffe Alumnae Award winners, who will be honored at the Radcliffe Awards Symposium on June 5 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the American Repertory Theater’s Loeb Drama Center. The event will also feature a panel discussion by alumnae award winners, titled…
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe Institute 2009-10 fellows include artists, scientists
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced the women and men selected to be Radcliffe Fellows in 2009-10. These creative artists, humanists, scientists, and social scientists were chosen for their superior scholarship, research, or artistic endeavors, as well as the potential of their projects to yield long-term impact. While at Radcliffe,…
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Arts & Culture
Peabody awards photography fellowship
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has recently announced Alessandra Sanguinetti as the recipient of the 2009 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography.
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Campus & Community
H1N1 influenza advice for Commencement week visitors
While at Harvard, should you experience any symptoms consistent with H1N1 flu, you should contact Harvard University Health Services (HUHS).
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Campus & Community
Tips to help you enjoy Commencement, come rain or shine
VISITOR TIPS AND SERVICES The following services will be in effect at the University on Commencement Day, June 4.
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Campus & Community
Special notice regarding Commencement Exercises
MORNING EXERCISES To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning (June 4):