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  • Science & Tech

    Study identifies food-related clock in the brain

    In investigating the intricacies of the body’s biological rhythms, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have discovered the existence of a “food-related clock” which can supersede the “light-based”…

  • Campus & Community

    Cohen named new chair of Department of Architecture

    Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), recently announced the appointment of Preston Scott Cohen as chair of the Department of Architecture, effective July 1.

  • Arts & Culture

    Photographs reveal tiny leaf details

    The sense of loss Amanda Means felt is exposed in a new exhibit of her unusual photographs of leaves at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Called “Looking at Leaves,” the exhibit is the third in a series of photographic exhibitions at the museum that explore the intersection of art and science by inviting visitors…

  • Arts & Culture

    Yearlong search for the ‘human’ concludes with Bhabha address

    The series “Rethinking the Human,” a yearlong exploration of the very nature of what it means to be human, sponsored by the Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, concluded last week (May 12-13) with a two-day symposium.

  • Arts & Culture

    Bhabha named senior adviser

    Homi K. Bhabha has just been named senior adviser on the humanities to the president and provost. The position, a first for the University, takes effect July 1.

  • Arts & Culture

    Reminiscences of Maxim Gorky

    In 1895, Russian journalist Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, a onetime shoemaker’s apprentice who had quit school at 10, adopted a new name: Maxim Gorky. After that, literary fame came fast and furious for this self-taught, fresh-voiced grandson of a Volga boatman. Gorky — the name means “bitter” — could tell a story, remember everything he read…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    May 6, 1945 — At noon a novel contraption appears on high as a helicopter hovers over Harvard and lands on the riverbank in front of the Business School. A Coast Guard pilot and another officer alight from the craft to present a letter from the president of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce to a…

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    Yivo institute honors Summers

    The YIVO Institute for Jewish research honored Charles W. Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers on May 13 at its 83rd annual benefit dinner. The ceremony was held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its 12th and final meeting of the year on May 14, the Faculty Council reviewed the Ph.D. program in African and African American Studies and approved the Student Handbook and Courses of Instruction for 2008-2009.

  • Campus & Community

    Kieffer awarded International Reading Fellowship

    Michael Kieffer, an advanced doctoral student in language and literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is the recipient of the International Reading Association’s (IRA) Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship.

  • Campus & Community

    Weatherhead names grant recipients

    Sixteen Harvard College students have received summer travel grants through the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs to support their senior thesis research.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Magazine selects two Ledecky Fellows

    Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2008-09 academic year will be Brittney Moraski ’09 and Christian Flow ?????10, who were selected after a competitive evaluation of writing submitted by student applicants.

  • Campus & Community

    Frisbie family endows head coach for men’s lacrosse

    Richard D. Frisbie ’71, J.D. ’74, a former All-Ivy Harvard lacrosse midfielder who captained the Crimson his senior year, is leading his team once again with the announcement of the Frisbie Family Endowed Coach for Men’s Lacrosse. The news comes only weeks after the announcement of the first two women’s head coaching endowments in Harvard…

  • Campus & Community

    Community advisory

    On May 6 at approximately 1:40 a.m., an undergraduate student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that she was the victim of an assault and battery in Harvard Yard near Houghton Library by the stairs going down toward Pusey Library.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty, students honored for improving intercultural relations

    The Harvard Foundation presented its 2008 Faculty/Administrator Award to Benedict H. Gross, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics, at its annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards dinner in Quincy House on May 4.

  • Campus & Community

    Author tells of life-changing experience

    Kennedy School graduate Steve Reifenberg M.P.P. ’88 reflected recently on becoming — at the age of 23 — a father figure to 12 young children.

  • Campus & Community

    Arnold Herbert Colodny

    Arnold Herbert Colodny died June 15, 2001, in his 77th year. He was a highly respected and beloved pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital and a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

  • Health

    Prostate cancer treatments are contrasted

    Jim Hu and colleagues at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) assessed surgical utilization and complications, lengths of hospital stay, and cancer outcomes in more than 2,700 men who underwent prostate cancer surgery.

  • Health

    Undergrads volunteer for Nalgene bottle BPA study

    For a while last month, whenever Scott Elfenbein ’11 was thirsty he’d take a pull or two from a Nalgene bottle. But Elfenbein was quaffing from Nalgene for science, not for convenience. He was one of about 80 Harvard College students who volunteered for a two-week April study intended to track levels of bisphenol A…

  • Campus & Community

    THURJ provides forum for students

    Spanning topics as diverse as cancerous tumors and the overfishing of grouper in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a new journal aims to highlight the serious scientific research regularly undertaken by Harvard undergraduates.

  • Health

    New pyramid puts oil, exercise, poultry in their place

    The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has relaunched its Web site, The Nutrition Source. One of the highlights of the improved site is a freely downloadable version of the Healthy Eating Pyramid, built by nutrition faculty at the School, which should appeal to educators and health professionals as well…

  • Health

    New Rx for doctors: Go back to school

    This year six doctors are pursuing a one-year master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). The students are all part of the School’s flexible Special Study Program that allows them to design their own curriculum and tailor it to their individual interests.

  • Nation & World

    Candidates emphasize hot-button issues

    D. Sunshine Hillygus, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and Todd G. Shields, professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, extensively studied campaign strategy during the 2004 general election, work that may illuminate strategy in the current presidential race.

  • Nation & World

    Princess Zahra outlines the work of Aga Khan Development Network

    Princess Zahra Aga Khan ’94 came home to Harvard this week (May 13) to present a hopeful vision of what education in the developing world can be like.

  • Campus & Community

    David Rubenstein Fund to support HKS/HBS Joint Degree students

    Underscoring its commitment to expand financial aid options for students, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has established the David M. Rubenstein Fund, supporting students enrolled in the Harvard Kennedy School/Harvard Business School (HKS/HBS) Joint Degree Program, thanks to a $5 million gift from David M. Rubenstein.

  • Nation & World

    Panels contrive job interview for the next president of the U.S.

    If the presidency of the United States were a job one applied for like a job in the business world, what questions should be included in the interview? That question was one of the provocative ideas behind the all-day “Conversation on Leadership and the Next Presidency” presented Monday (May 12) at the Charles Hotel by…

  • Campus & Community

    Unusual year yields positive results for Class of 2012

    With a record applicant pool of 27,462, the Class of 2012 will enter Harvard College through the most competitive admissions process in its history.

  • Nation & World

    Students see AIDS up close

    While her classmates in Cambridge were shivering through a New England February, Sandy Bolm was sweltering in the heat of a Botswana summer, staring her future in the face in the labs of the Botswana-Harvard Partnership.

  • Nation & World

    AIDS: Finding answers

    Ampheletse Medupe’s headaches just wouldn’t go away. Living in her small, neat home outside the African nation of Botswana’s capital, the mother of four kept on as best she could until sores broke out on her face.