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Campus & Community
Local superintendents, Faust share ideas
Harvard President Drew Faust met with public school superintendents and professional associates from Boston area schools on Feb. 8 to share ideas about, among other things, educational leadership, teaching and learning, and preparing students from preschool through college and beyond.
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Campus & Community
Daffodil Days, Harvard team up to fight cancer
The first flower of spring, the daffodil has long been a symbol of hope and renewal. It has also become a powerful tool in the American Cancer Society’s efforts to treat patients.
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Health
Newly identified gene variants associated with prostate cancer risk
Three studies presenting newly identified genetic variants that are associated with increased susceptibility to prostate cancer were published recently (Feb. 10) on the advance online site of Nature Genetics. The 10 gene variants double the number of known variants associated with risk of the disease and are the result of genomewide association studies.
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Health
Anxiety linked to overestimation of breast cancer risks
Elevated levels of anxiety may cause women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), the most common form of noninvasive breast cancer, to overestimate their risk of recurrence or dying from breast cancer, suggests a study led by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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Health
Infants are able to recognize quantity
By looking at infant brain activity, researchers have found that babies as young as 3 months old are sensitive to differences in numerical quantity. Additionally, the scientists were able to see that babies process information about objects and numbers in different, dissociated parts of the brain, which is also the case in older children and…
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Health
Web technology allows health experts from around globe to kibitz
It was close to midnight one day this week in Durban, South Africa, when Harvard AIDS researcher Bruce D. Walker switched on his computer and made a visit to 104 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge.
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Health
BWH-led tuberculosis research project receives $14M NIH grant
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Partners In Health (PIH) have received a grant of $14 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). The goal of the project is…
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Health
Making statistics not just palatable, but delicious
Money, love, health, innocence or guilt — even finding the right wine. Who doesn’t want to know more? “Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery),” offered this semester by Harvard’s Department of Statistics, will explore the critical tools to make good judgments in matters large and small.
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Health
How brain cells make good connections
Harvard neuroscientist Venkatesh N. Murthy has a sunny second-floor office on Divinity Avenue, where he is a professor in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. In one corner is a set of weights and a soccer ball — both untouched in over a year, he said, because of an intensely busy schedule.
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein Center announces Goldsmith finalists
Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2008 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (HKS). The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at a March 18 awards ceremony at the John…
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Campus & Community
Mossavar-Rahmani Center names fellows
Two regulatory affairs executives from an Italian energy company, the president of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, and a Vietnamese professor of economics are among the incoming fellows being welcomed this spring at the Kennedy School of Government’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG).
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Campus & Community
Golden to deliver Morris Lecture at Nieman
Tim Golden, senior writer for The New York Times, will present the 2008 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Feb. 21, 2008.
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Campus & Community
Liberian president to address HKS graduates
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first elected female leader on the African continent, will deliver the 2008 graduation address at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). She will speak to graduates and their families on Class Day (June 4) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Campus & Community
H-Link will connect students in same classes
In response to student requests and the evolving ways students are using technology to communicate with each other, Harvard University is creating H-Link, a Web application that connects students’ courses and classmates with their Facebook accounts, which will be available starting Feb. 25. Facebook is an Internet “social utility” very popular among high school and…
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Nation & World
Calderón cites nation’s progress
The election that put Felipe Calderón Hinojosa into office as the president of Mexico was a real squeaker — the closest vote in the modern history of his country. It took a couple of months for the federal electoral tribunal to certify him as the winner. Even then his chief opponent wouldn’t concede. An hour…
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Health
Ethicists, philosophers discuss selling of human organs
In nearly every country in the world, there is a shortage of kidneys for transplantation. In the United States, around 73,000 people are on waiting lists to receive a kidney. Yet 4,000 die every year before the lifesaving organ is available.
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Nation & World
Security chief cautions against complacency
If Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was politically wounded by his department’s response to Hurricane Katrina, he showed no sign of it during his forceful lecture Feb. 6 at the Kennedy School of Government.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty
In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the University a worldwide license to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit.
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Science & Tech
Hauser presents theory of “humaniqueness”
Shedding new light on the great cognitive rift between humans and animals, a Harvard University scientist has synthesized four key differences in human and animal cognition into a hypothesis on…
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Health
Major step forward in understanding cell reprogramming
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have taken a major step toward eventually being able to reprogram adult cells to an embryonic stem cell-like state…
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Science & Tech
The ethics of the organ bazaar
In nearly every country in the world, there is a shortage of kidneys for transplantation. In the United States, around 73,000 people are on waiting lists to receive a kidney.…
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Arts & Culture
Pauletta Washington honored
There was no debating the glamour of the Harvard Foundation’s black-tie, red-carpet premiere of “The Great Debaters,” starring and directed by Denzel Washington, at the Harvard Film Archive at the Carpenter Center. Close to 200 students, faculty, and staff attended the Dec. 18 premiere, which was followed by a lively question-and-answer session with Washington and…
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Arts & Culture
Exhibition shows a lot of soul
Ever wonder what a soul looks like? You have 30 chances to see a picture of one at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Gutman Library through Feb. 15. Hundreds more chances if you look at the related book, “Soul” (Reg Vardy Gallery/Satellite Arts, 2007), or if you go to the Web site http://www.drawyoursoul.org.
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Arts & Culture
Gamelanathon!
Stepping carefully in their stocking feet, the musicians thread their way among the array of low-lying gongs, drums, and metallophones and lower themselves cross-legged onto the floor. Lifting their padded mallets, they begin to play. The ringing sound of the metal bars, punctuated by the dry slap of the drum and the gong’s shimmering resonance,…
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Campus & Community
‘I’m ready for my close-up, Professor Kuriyama …’
How do you attract students to a course? With more than 5,400 classes on offer each year, it can be a difficult proposition. Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, borrows a Hollywood technique: offer a movie trailer.
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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 Feb. 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Appointments
HUAM appoints Williams first director of education, Lawry appointed senior research fellow at Hauser Center
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Campus & Community
In brief
Bok Center offering half time postdoc fellowship, HSPH symposium to tackle thorny international health issues, Grants, fellowships available to HMS members, HSPH announces new scholarship opportunity, Docent-led tour at Semitic Museum upcoming, HMS center honors trio for global environmental efforts, Center for Wellness and Health announces spring bounty
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Taubes awarded NAS prize, School of Dental Medicine receives ADEA Award for Vision, Ph.D. candidates receive Kauffman Dissertation Fellowships, Peter Black elected to lead WFNS, HHL-Leipzig honors Porter, Stone receives Batchelor Prize
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Campus & Community
Korea Institute receives grant for development of programs
The Northeast Asian History Foundation (NEAHF) in Seoul, Korea, has awarded a grant of $1 million over a five-year period to the Early Korea Project at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.