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An undersized Harvard football team effectively dismantled 19th-ranked Northeastern, 41-14, this past Saturday (Oct. 16) to keep its unbeaten season intact. Now 5-0, the host Crimson (2-0 Ivy) held the husky Huskies (3-3) to just two first-half touchdowns – 24 points below their per-game season average – while converting five turnovers into 13 Harvard points.

You walk into a room and spy a plate of gooey doughnuts dripping with chocolate frosting. But wait: You were saving your sweets allotment for a party later today. If it feels like one part of your brain is battling another, it probably is, according to a newly published study.

Scientists identify major molecular pathway that leads to diabetes Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have discovered what they believe is the fundamental mechanism within cells that links…

Harvard University announced a groundbreaking partnership agreement Thursday (Oct. 14) with Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), creating a premiere fellowship program at Harvard for outstanding Ph.D. students from Mexico.

Peabody, Consulate General of Mexico to fete Day of the Dead The Peabody Museum and the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston will host a celebration of the traditional Mexican…

Six alumni/ae were recognized for their outstanding Schools and Scholarships work during an awards ceremony on Oct. 15.

Concerned about a recent trend that has seen a decline in the number of international students studying in the United States, Harvard University continues to work to smooth the road for those students, who in recent years have faced tougher screenings and longer waits to enter the United States.

Theres a war going on inside our bodies, early in life.

Dennis N. Skiotis, director of undergraduate studies at Harvards Department of History from 1985 to 1998, and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1976 to 1985, passed away on Oct. 19 from complications of pneumonia after a long struggle with leukemia. He was 67.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial celebration honoring the life of Philip S. Holzman will be held on Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holzman, who died on June 1, was the Esther and Sidney R. Rabb Professor of Psychology Emeritus, and professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry emeritus. A…

Robert A. Jones, a 37-year veteran of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), died of colon cancer on June 10. He was 61. A Boston native, Jones joined the HUPD force in 1963 after brief stints as a cook and security guard at Radcliffe College. Jones was promoted to sergeant in the late 1970s and…

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School recently announced that Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations credited with helping to end the war in the former Yugoslavia in 1995, is the recipient of its 2004 Great Negotiator award. Holbrooke will receive the award at a dinner in his honor at…

Oct. 6, 1642 – “The times and order of their Studies, unlesse experience shall shew cause to alter,” the earliest detailed Harvard curriculum, is preserved in writing. Harvard’s undergraduate course…

A phone totin pedestrian casts a long shadow as he walks in front of the Malkin Athletic Center.

Did you hear the one about the psychiatrist who laughs during therapy? Humor was once considered taboo at such times because it might disrupt a patients chain of thought or hurt his or her feelings. But analysis of videotapes of 10 recent sessions reveals that psychotherapy can be a laughing matter.

Planning for Harvards future development in Allston is moving ahead on several fronts this fall. The planning firm Cooper, Robertson and Partners has begun its work, a series of faculty retreats are fleshing out recommendations involving the sciences, and Harvard continues to work with the city of Boston and with Allston in a community-based planning…

A Cambridge holiday tradition since 1971, the Christmas Revels will return to Harvards Sanders Theatre beginning Dec. 10 for 18 performances of music, dance, and rituals in celebration of the winter solstice.

A visiting biology professor showed that the majority of threatened species have low genetic diversity, bolstering the scientific view that genetic factors are a threat to species heading toward extinction.

In 1970, John Misha Petkevich, a Harvard junior, was getting a routine checkup at Childrens Memorial Hospital in Brookline. After meeting some children being treated for leukemia there, Petkevich (a future Olympian) returned to Eliot House and, with the help of other students, organized a benefit skating event called An Evening With Champions.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, has announced the appointment of 12 new fellows for the 2004-05 academic year.

Twenty new fellows from five different countries have joined the Kennedy School of Governments Center for Business and Government (CBG) for the 2004-05 academic year.

Far below the Pacific Oceans waves, seabed vents spew hot water, minerals, and nutrients into the cold, dark depths, opening a window to the geologic processes driving them and anchoring biological communities that scientists hope can reveal the secrets of lifes beginnings.

After four full quarters of on-field surprises, the Harvard football team may have blown its single biggest secret against visiting Cornell this past Saturday (Oct. 9). Pass it on, this Crimson roster runs deeper than the stat sheets might suggest.

Professor Bernard Bailyn receives Kennedy Medal The council of the Massachusetts Historical Society awarded the Kennedy Medal – given to persons who have “rendered distinguished service to the cause of…

Asking Who am I? may launch a quest to understand ones own identity, but unless one happens to be Michel de Montaigne or Jean Jacques Rousseau, the effort is unlikely to be of much concern to anyone else.

Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, has published a new book titled Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. Allison, an expert on arms control and defense policy, served as assistant secretary of defense for policy and…

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and President Lawrence H. Summers joined forces last Thursday (Oct. 7) to celebrate the partnership that has put Boston after-school efforts in the national arena and to recognize two exemplary Boston-area school principals who have made after-school education a vital and successful part of their schools.