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Arts & Culture
‘Walls of Tehran’ panels to explore art, propaganda
An afternoon panel in association with “Walls of Martyrdom” — a photography exhibit of Tehran’s propaganda murals by Ph.D. candidate in public policy Fotini Christia — will be held May 18 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center, the Center for Middle Eastern…
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Campus & Community
Colloquium attracts scholars, witches
What does the word “witchcraft” mean to you? If it’s Elizabeth Montgomery’s twitching nose or something some hapless woman in Colonial Salem was put to death for, you’ve got some catching up to do.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First edges toward the edgy in conceptual public art display
With John Harvard looking on, four students and their instructor, local artist Gary Duehr, put the finishing touches on their creation, what one of the students referred to as an “interactive piece of visual art.”
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Arts & Culture
‘Accidental opera composer’ speaks
As a young man, John Adams didn’t like opera. “I never listened to opera as a kid. I didn’t like the operatic voice or the stiff posturing of opera performances.”
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Campus & Community
21st century technology takes students back to 17th century
In 1998 cellist Yo-Yo Ma took to the road, and a growing number of people have followed him.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 25, 1951 — The Medical School attracts some 250 graduates to its first Alumni Day.
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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 7. 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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Arts & Culture
In brief
Concert to honor music faculty A farewell concert featuring the music of Harvard Department of Music faculty Julian Anderson and Joshua Fineberg will be held May 21 at 8 p.m. in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Anderson, the Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music, and Fineberg, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities,…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
YWCA Boston names Gomes Racial Justice Award winner The YWCA Boston has named the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes the recipient of its 2007 Racial Justice Award. The YWCA’s board and guests will fête Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, at the 13th annual Women’s Leadership Gala…
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Campus & Community
Faculty council
At its 15th and final meeting of the year on May 9, the Faculty Council held a review of the Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health, considered a proposal to create a standing committee on life sciences education, and voted on proposed changes to the Handbook for Students for 2007-2008 and on the…
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Campus & Community
Memorial Minute
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences October 17, 2006, the following Minute was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
Commencement Exercises, June 7
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:
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Campus & Community
Design School’s Mazereeuw receives Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that Miho Mazereeuw M.Arch./M.L.A. ’02 will receive the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture to study post-disaster urban architecture in three cities along the Ring of Fire, a zone of the most frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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Campus & Community
Looking at politics through a racial lens
As a 15-year-old who had spent half her life in Saudi Arabia’s expatriate community, Claudine Gay got a rude awakening when, in the 1980s, she returned “home” to a private New Hampshire boarding school.
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Campus & Community
Sports briefs
Softball sweeps Penn, nabs Ivy title Solid pitching lifted the Harvard softball team past Penn, 4-0 and 4-2, this past Saturday afternoon (May 5) at Soldiers Field in Ivy League Championship action. With the wins, the Crimson program collected its fourth league title and first since the 2001 season.
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Health
Species thrive when sexual dimorphism broadens niches
Some Caribbean lizards’ strong sexual dimorphism allows them to colonize much larger niches and habitats than they might otherwise occupy, allowing males and females to avoid competing with each other for resources and setting the stage for the population as a whole to thrive. The finding, reported this week in the journal Nature, suggests sex…
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Science & Tech
Ingenious use of indigenous tree reaps award
The jatropha tree is a humble — some might even say homely — plant, with large, maple-like leaves and clusters of inedible fruit that, when mature, look too brown and shriveled to be of much use to anyone. But to thousands of rural eastern and southern Africans, the jatropha is a beautiful thing. It represents…
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Science & Tech
Using Spitzer telescope, scientists create first map of extrasolar planet
For the first time, astronomers have created a rough map of a planet orbiting a distant sun-like star, employing a technique that may one day enable mapping of Earth-like worlds. Because the planet just charted is a gas giant and lacks a solid surface, the map shows cloud-top features. Using the Spitzer infrared space telescope,…
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Campus & Community
Test improves prediction of self-injurious behavior
Researchers have found a way to better predict self-injurious behavior by using a test that assesses subjects’ implicit attitudes toward self-injury rather than relying on self-revealing talk. The test addresses…
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Health
Patrick announces $1B initiative
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Tuesday (May 8) announced a $1 billion biotech initiative to secure Massachusetts its position as a world leader in biotechnology and stem cell science.
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Campus & Community
Howard Gardner’s ‘quintet of minds’
It’s been more than 20 years since Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner offered up a radical idea: that humans possess multiple forms of intelligence rather than just a single type that is easily tested by linguistic and logical-mathematical parameters.
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Campus & Community
Noyce Scholarships provide incentive for public school internships
Among the topics in the national conversation on education during the past few years have been teacher retention (particularly for high-needs schools) and the lack of math and science educators in primary and secondary settings. The National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Scholarship — which was awarded this year to 10 master’s students from the Harvard…
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Health
Evolution caught playing with genetic on-off switch
A tiny opossum’s genome has shed light on how evolution creates new creatures from old, showing that change primarily comes by finding new ways of turning existing genes on and off.
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Health
Leading scientists announce creation of Encyclopedia of Life
Realizing a dream articulated in 2003 by renowned biologist E.O. Wilson, Harvard and four partner institutions have launched an ambitious effort to create an Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), an unprecedented project to document online every one of Earth’s 1.8 million known species. For the first time in history, the EOL would grant scientists, students, and…
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Health
Diabetes drug dramatically boosts power of platinum chemotherapy
A widely used diabetes drug dramatically boosted the potency of platinum-based cancer drugs when administered together to a variety of cancer cell lines and to mice with tumors, report scientists from Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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Campus & Community
Women of the Ivies
In a historic first, Harvard on Wednesday (May 2) hosted “Women at the Top: The Changing Face of the Ivies,” a summit of the five women who lead, have led,…
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Campus & Community
$5 million grant from Gates Foundation to fund Financial Access Initiative
Finding funding is a key step in building the wealth of low-income individuals in developing countries. How to make that step, however, is not always clear. The anecdotal success stories about microfinance are well known; substantive research on how to increase and improve access is still lacking.
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Campus & Community
Schelling and Neustadt winners announced
An international trade theorist and a longtime judge and international war crimes prosecutor are recipients of the 2007 Thomas C. Schelling and Richard E. Neustadt Awards. The awards were announced during a May 4 event hosted by the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).
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Nation & World
Secretary of Treasury Paulson talks about China’s booming economy
“Time is of the essence,” Henry Paulson told the capacity crowd at Burden Hall on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus Thursday afternoon (May 3). China needs to make some critical economic reforms — floating its currency, reforming its capital markets, and restructuring so that domestic consumption plays a bigger role — and the time…