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Spray-dry vaccine for TB developed
Bioengineers and public health researchers have developed a novel spray-drying method for preserving and delivering the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. The low-cost and scalable technique offers several potential advantages over conventional freezing procedures, such as greater stability at room temperature and use in needle-free delivery. The spray-drying process could one day provide a better…
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Health
Wilson urges alliance to save species
Edward O. Wilson sees a future in which science and religion join forces to save the natural world. Without such an alliance, said the legendary Harvard biologist and author, an alternative future is in store for the human race: one of accelerating environmental cataclysm fueled by overpopulation, deforestation, declining fisheries, and climate change.
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Health
Viruses get the silent treatment, any disease is a target
What do you do if you’re sure you’ve found a way to knock out the AIDS virus but you can’t get the medicine into infected cells? That was the problem faced by Judy Lieberman, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
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Campus & Community
College offers 28 secondary fields to undergraduates
Ten months after professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to establish secondary fields as part of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, the College has approved and is now offering 28 of the optional programs to undergraduates.
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Nation & World
Economics in the apple heartland
A Harvard doctoral student has traveled to the wild apple’s home in the mountains of Central Asia to lend a hand to an international nonprofit working with local apple farmers to improve how they grow, harvest, and sell their crops. Plamen Nikolov, a first-year Ph.D. student in health economics, has designed an assessment survey and…
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Campus & Community
Seeing Scarlett
In Harvard Yard just before noon today (Feb. 15), there was ice, slush, wind, a 2-degree wind chill – and there was Scarlett Johansson.
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Nation & World
Democrats need unified message
In 1967, Charles E. Schumer, a middle-class teenager from Brooklyn, N.Y., arrived at Harvard College with two goals in mind: to play freshman basketball and to study organic chemistry. At the basketball tryout, the would-be power forward – now New York’s senior senator – never got on court, after admitting to the coach that his…
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Nation & World
Power sees U.S. foreign policy on steep downhill slide
On Aug. 19, 2003, the first suicide bomb to hit Iraq went off with a roar at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, where the United Nations had been encamped for a dozen years. Among the dead was a Brazilian diplomat, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the UN high commissioner for Human Rights.
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Campus & Community
Once again, record numbers apply for admission to the College
Nearly 23,000 students have applied for admission to the Class of 2011. While the final number is yet to be determined, thus far 22,920 have applied, exceeding the previous record of 22,796 for the Class of 2009 and last year’s 22,754.
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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. 12. 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
HMS meeting to explore HMS fellowship, grant opportunities
The Faculty Fellowship Committee at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is sponsoring an information session March 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Waterhouse Room (first floor of Gordon Hall) on the subject of invitational research fellowships and grant opportunities for HMS postdocs and faculty.
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Campus & Community
David G. Freiman
David Galland Freiman, M.D. was born on July 1, 1911 in New York City, the son of Leopold and Dorothy (Galland) Freiman. After graduating from City College of New York, David attended the Long Island College of Medicine (now Downstate Medical Center SUNY), receiving his M.D. degree in 1935. David completed an internship in Internal…
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Campus & Community
Richard Alden Howard
On the last day in May, 1962, Professor Richard Howard received the following civil subpoena: “You are hereby commanded to appear in the United States District Court [and to] bring with you the entire card catalog of all books, pamphlets, monographs etc. now located in the Administration Building at Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain.”
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Campus & Community
Jerome Hamilton Buckley
Jerome Hamilton Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, was born in Toronto on August 30, 1917, and received his secondary education at Humberside Collegiate Institute where the principal called him “one of the most brilliant pupils” ever to attend the school.
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Campus & Community
William Samson Beck
Physician, scientist, teacher, writer, and musician, Bill Beck’s life gave zestful expression to his many creative talents.
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Campus & Community
CES welcomes spring fellows
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies has announced the arrival of its 2007 spring fellows. The center is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, and society at Harvard. Visiting scholars play an active role in the intellectual life of the center and the University. While in Cambridge, the scholars conduct…
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Campus & Community
Office for Arts announces spring grant recipients
Sponsored in part by Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) grant program, more than 1,000 students will participate in 38 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this spring. Grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Portrait unveiling
The late Eileen Jackson Southern, a music scholar and Harvard’s first black female tenured professor, is the subject of the latest painting in the Minority Portraiture Project, established in 2002 by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
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Campus & Community
‘Learned exchange’ goal of HCA fellowship
Now in its third year of operation, the Australia-Harvard Fellowship supports innovative researchers who may be planning collaborative work with Australian research organizations. Sponsored by the Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation, the fellowship aims to support learned exchange between the University and Australia.
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Campus & Community
Call 496-NEWS for closings info
The University operates the call-in number 496-NEWS for major School and University-wide closings due to inclement weather or other special circumstances affecting the Harvard campus.
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Campus & Community
Highlights from 367 years of Harvard presidents
Simple arithmetic supplies one of the most striking facts of Harvard history: since 1640, the institution has had only 27 presidents. The United States – nearly 140 years younger –…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Presidential Announcement: Remarks by President-Elect Drew G. Faust
Text as prepared for delivery Seven years ago, when I was named as the first dean of the new Radcliffe Institute, I said I was deeply honored to have been…
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Campus & Community
Harvard names Drew G. Faust as its 28th president
Drew G. Faust, an eminent historian and outstanding academic leader who has served since 2001 as the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University, effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
Feeling the noise
No matter how fiercely coaches may preach to their players about the virtues of shutting out the noise come game time, the clatter surrounding the annual Beanpot tournament – that madcap midterm examination of Boston collegiate hockey – is tough to shush. What with all the media coverage surrounding the 55-year-old event, together with the…
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Campus & Community
Daffodil Days marks 20 years of fighting cancer
Although yellow is not often associated with the drab winter months, Community Affairs has gone a long way in helping to change that perception on Harvard’s campus. This early spring, those efforts reach a milestone as Harvard celebrates two decades as a key participant in the annual Daffodil Days fundraiser.
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Campus & Community
HRES proposes 2007-08 rents for Affiliated Housing
Per University policy, Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) is required to charge market rent for its housing. To establish proposed rents for 2007-08, HRES performed a regression analysis on three years of market rents for more than 4,000 neighboring apartments, all of which were voluntary postings at the Harvard Housing Office by non-Harvard property owners.…
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Campus & Community
The philosophy of evolution
For many college students, deciding what subject to major in can be a struggle. But for Peter Godfrey-Smith the decision seemed obvious almost from his first days as an undergraduate at Sydney University in Australia. “I knew when I was a first-year student that I was going to do philosophy,” he said. “There was such…