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Robert C. Orr, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), left his post this month to become assistant secretary-general of the United Nations. In his new role, Orr is the UNs top official responsible for policy and planning, and the senior-most American…

The third annual Its Movie Time at Harvard – a free outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. The event is open to the entire University community and their families.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) officially kicked off a new research center Monday (Aug. 23) focused on understanding and reversing the immune system dysfunction that both causes diabetes and that presents a hurdle to potential cures.

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…

Harvards alpine ski team will be under the tutelage of a new head coach for the 2004-05 season, as former UMass standout Justin Rouleau joins the Crimson coaching staff. Rouleau replaces Lisa Smyth, who was with the team for five years.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is committed to assisting all members of the Harvard community in providing for their own safety and security. Harvards annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), is titled Playing It Safe, and can…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning July 18 and ending August 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Researchers have found a family of molecules that play a key role in the formation of synapses, the junctions that link brain cells, called neu-rons, to each other. The molecules initiate the development of these connections, forming the circuitry of the mammalian nervous system.

At the annual Mid-Summer Celebration of the 12 day camps run by Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), a student-led non-profit at Harvard College, Wednesday evening (Aug. 4), old-fashioned summertime fun took on a distinctly urban flavor. As campers from Boston and Cambridge ran sack races, tossed rings and softballs, slurped watermelon, and smeared their faces…

The world’s first quantum network, integrated with the Internet, is now operating in the Boston area. Its developers hope that the messages it sends will be secure from hackers and eavesdroppers for as long as imagination now extends.

Balloons waved, jazz standards played, and Cambridge seniors danced on the steps of the Memorial Church during Wednesday’s (Aug. 4) 29th Annual Senior Picnic in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have found that the content of human DNA and genes, originally thought to be very similar among all human beings, differs significantly. This unexpected finding could one day provide researchers with the insight necessary to understand how disease development differs among individuals and…

Howard A. Frank, co-developer of the heart pacemaker and clinical professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died from complications of a stroke at his Brookline, Mass., home on June 27. He was 89.

The impending retirement of 77 million baby boomers, if managed properly, can transform the nature of American society through an explosion in volunteerism that rejuvenates the societal ties that bind the nation together.

The John Harvard Mall, a hilltop park in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, is now restored and designed to be safer for Boston residents and their children, thanks to a partnership between the city of Boston and Harvard University.

Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Forsyth Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have successfully used tissue-engineering techniques to regenerate rat tooth crowns.

On Sunday, June 20, hundreds of fathers, including Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, celebrated Father’s Day with a walk to fight cancer.

It’s like the chicken and egg question. Do we learn to think before we speak, or does language shape our thoughts? New experiments with five-month-olds favor the conclusion that thought comes first.

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Maha for short) studies the obvious but ignored – how do flags flutter, worms wiggle, fabrics fold. ‘There’s a certain joy in trying to discover the sublime in the mundane,’ says the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at Harvard University.

For those of you who want to live longer, you’re getting closer to having your cake and eating it. You can even add a glass of wine.

Ground was broken July 14 for the new long-term home of the Broad Institute at 7 Cambridge Center on the corner of Main and Ames streets. The institute will serve as the vital center of a relatively new collaboration intended to bring the power of genomics to bear on the understanding of disease and to…

The international community has not succeeded very well at stopping incidents of genocide. From Armenia to Rwanda, efforts at intervention have generally been either nonexistent or too little and too late.

Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin have given $5 million to support the Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program, which enables the University to make research materials from libraries across Harvard freely available over the Internet.

P S A are frightening letters for those diagnosed with prostate cancer, some 230,000 men every year. They stand for prostate-specific antigen, a protein the body secretes in excess when a man has the malignancy. It is used as a marker to both diagnose the disease and to detect its recurrence after surgery or radiation.…