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  • Science & Tech

    New committee to create University-wide conflict of interest policies and principles

    A newly empaneled committee is about to begin an intensive review of University-wide conflict of interest (COI) “principles, policies and recommendations.” The committee, under the direction of David Korn, vice…

  • Health

    New ALS gene identified

    A collaborative research effort spanning nearly a decade between Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and King’s College London (KCL) has identified a novel gene for inherited amyotrophic lateral…

  • Health

    Predicting risk of stroke from one’s genetic blueprint

    A new statistical model could be used to predict an individual’s lifetime risk of stroke, according to the results of a study by Harvard researchers at the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program.

  • Health

    Weight loss bottom line: Fewer calories

    A new study by Harvard researchers and colleagues shows that eating fewer calories leads to weight loss, regardless of where those calories come from. Many popular diets emphasize either carbohydrate,…

  • Health

    Low-income women with diabetes at increased risk for postpartum depression

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the University of Minnesota have found that living just above the poverty line and having diabetes increases by 50 percent a woman’s chance…

  • Health

    Vitamin B and folic acid may reduce risk of age-related vision loss

    Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that taking a combination of vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid appears to decrease the risk of…

  • Health

    Patients are untapped resource for improving care, study finds

    A 15-month study of 21,860 patients and 110 primary care physicians at 11 Harvard Vanguard health centers found that patients who received mailed reminders that they were due for colorectal…

  • Health

    Scientists identify antibodies effective against bird, seasonal flu viruses

    Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported the identification of human monoclonal antibodies (mAb) that…

  • Campus & Community

    Allston update letter

    Dear Colleagues, Friends and Neighbors: I am writing today to update you on our plans for development in Allston.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Feb. 28, 1902 — The Athletic Committee approves the formation of a swimming club.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Egg & Nest’

    World-renowned photographer Rosamond Purcell’s photographs of exquisitely elegant eggs and remarkable nests are on view at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit, “Egg & Nest,” on display through March 15.

  • Campus & Community

    James Franco well-done at Hasty roast

    On the most superstitious day of the year, James Franco got lucky. With his roguish grin and trademark James Dean looks, the actor appeared stunned but happy during his Friday the 13th roast as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year, rubbing his Pudding Pot and declaring, “Now I’ve made it.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Briggs-Copeland reading features poets Klink and Richards

    Tonight (Feb. 19) at 7, Houghton Library hosts Harvard’s first Briggs-Copeland Poetry Reading. The event, held in the Edison and Newman Room, will feature readings by Joanna Klink and Peter Richards, two of Harvard’s six Briggs-Copeland Lecturers. Bret Anthony Johnston, director of the creative writing program in the Department of English, will provide an introduction.

  • Campus & Community

    Flu shots still available

    Free flu vaccines are still available to all Harvard faculty and staff through Harvard University Health Services (HUHS). The flu shots will be given on the third floor of HUHS in Holyoke Center during regular weekly office hours. Similarly, faculty and staff may also receive flu shots at satellite HUHS offices at the Longwood Medical…

  • Campus & Community

    Voluntary early retirement offered

    Harvard is offering an early retirement incentive package to staff across the University as one of many steps toward managing the challenges of the economic downturn.

  • Campus & Community

    Markley named Ivy Player of the Week

    For the third time this season, Crimson basketball forward Emma Markley ’11 has been named Ivy League Player of the Week. Markley had 18 points, 10 rebounds, and two blocks in the Crimson’s 18-point win against Cornell on Friday (Feb. 13). Then, in a 71-74 loss to Columbia on Saturday (Feb. 14), Markley tied her…

  • Campus & Community

    Princeton edges Harvard in women’s squash final

    The No. 2 Harvard women’s squash team fell just shy of their 12th College Squash Association (CSA) national championship on Sunday (Feb. 15), falling to No. 1 Princeton, 5-4.

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson shock No. 6 Cornell, continue to win at home

    After consecutive losses to No. 1 Boston University, No. 14 Yale, and No. 15 Boston College, the Crimson men’s hockey team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 decision against Colgate on Friday (Feb. 13) and a 4-2 shocker against the No. 5 Cornell Big Red on Saturday (Feb. 14).

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson fall short in overtime

    Resilience has defined the Harvard women’s hockey team this season. After a slow start, in which the Crimson went 6-7-3 in their first 16 games, Harvard bounced back by winning nine of 10 — including five straight wins on the road. So on Tuesday (Feb. 17) night, when the recently ranked No. 9 Crimson saw…

  • Campus & Community

    Winthrop House names master, co-master

    Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson have been appointed master and co-master of Winthrop House. Sullivan has been a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2007. He is also director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, with areas of interest including criminal law, criminal proceedings, legal ethics, and race theory.…

  • Health

    Attendance grows at Dental School’s ‘free care day’

    Despite historic increases in health insurance coverage in Massachusetts, fewer than 20 percent of the commonwealth’s dentists accept patients insured through public programs such as Medicaid. Although state-subsidized insurance programs include dental care, the insurance mandate does not require employers to cover dental care. Dental schools are considered affordable sites for treatment, but even reduced…

  • Campus & Community

    Detroit Free Press recognized with Worth Bingham Prize

    For their comprehensive series “A Mayor in Crisis,” Detroit Free Press staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick, in addition to their colleagues, are the winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

  • Nation & World

    Room for optimism after Gaza

    A capacity crowd at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) this week (Feb. 11) got to see a scaled-down, toned-down version of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Instead of stones and rockets, words flew. Instead of despair, there was at least a glimmer of hope.

  • Health

    Science programs advancing

    Harvard President Drew Faust today renewed the University’s commitment to the vision of advancing interdisciplinary, collaborative science in general, and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (WIBIE) in particular.

  • Campus & Community

    Tuition to rise 3.5 percent at Harvard for 2009-10

    Undergraduate tuition at Harvard will increase 3.5 percent to $33,696 for academic year 2009-10. Need-based scholarship aid is expected to grow to a record $147 million, an 18 percent increase over what was planned for the current academic year. The total package (tuition plus room, board, and student services fee) will be $48,868, a 3.5…

  • Nation & World

    Index offers abundance of data

    To employ an analogy: If Somalia were to take a math test, the chaotic nation in the Horn of Africa would score a dismal 18.9 out of 100.

  • Health

    The way of the digital dodo

    The National Science Foundation-funded, three-year effort aims to create 3-D digital models of each species represented in Harvard’s collection of 12,000 bird skeletons.

  • Science & Tech

    Science, engineering programs advancing

    Harvard President Drew Faust today renewed the University’s commitment to the vision of advancing interdisciplinary, collaborative science in general, and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), the…

  • Arts & Culture

    The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century

    Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz hold a microscope to loneliness, in part a symptom of our chaotic contemporary lifestyles, revealing the widespread effects of our disconnection and a culture that romanticizes autonomy.