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Marshaling the resources of business, government, academia, and civil society to address pressing social challenges in the United States and globally is the goal of a new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative, being launched today (March 4) by Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

Harvard researchers identified eight chemicals that induce a change in leukemia cells out of more than 1,700 candidates in a trial of a process they say holds promise as a way to rapidly identify potential drug candidates.

Postmenopausal women taking estrogen are more than twice as likely to develop asthma than their counterparts not taking the hormone, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.

Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and an expert on international terrorism, opened Radcliffes 2004 Voices of Public Intellectuals series on Confronting Terrorism: Democracys Response to the Terrorist Threat Thursday (Feb. 26). In her lecture, The Nature of the Terrorist Threat, she put terrorism in context, providing historical, psychological, religious,…

The de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation, a family foundation based in Montreal, has donated $7.5 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) in honor of Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (M.B.A. 54) and his wife, Nan-b. The gift will fund the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and focus on supporting a wide range of…

The Harvard campus got a little greener last week, and it has nothing to do with the coming of spring. Rather, the Universitys Transportation Services opened its own biodiesel filling station in Allston, allowing Harvards 25 diesel vehicles – shuttle buses, maintenance and mail trucks, and dining services vehicles – to run on cleaner-burning biodiesel.…

As a child in Erie, Pa., Eric Engel was the kid who said, Lets put on a play!

Joel Hirschhorn, assistant professor of genetics (pediatrics), has been named the recipient of the 2004 Young Investigator Award by the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). This award recognizes the achievements of scientists and physician scientists embarking on careers investigating the diseases that affect children.

Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Emeritus, has received the 2004 Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy. Cavell is the first Harvard professor to receive the award.

A diverse range of expertise presented by panelists and participants from around the world sparked thought-provoking discussion and dissent at Globalization and Education, a conference at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Thursday (Feb. 26). The conference, sponsored by the GSE, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and Ross Institute Agenda, drew from findings presented in…

Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates III delivered a relaxed, sometimes humorous talk to about 350 students, faculty, and administrators at Lowell Lecture Hall Thursday evening (Feb. 26), outlining a software future that features smarter, more secure machines and encouraging students to develop computings next big idea.

Harvards 24-hour Shuttle Service has been extended through March. The service, which began Feb. 4, runs from 12:30 to 7 a.m. (9:30 a.m. on weekends) on a fixed route that includes stops at Memorial Hall, Lamont Library, the river houses, Johnston Gate, and the quad area. Specific departure times are posted at house offices, libraries,…

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 Feb. 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Fonseca service today Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mount Auburn St.,today (March 4), at 4 p.m. The ceremony will…

March 20, 1934 – The Charles William Eliot Memorial Association observes the 100th birth anniversary of its namesake by donating a bronze bust of Eliot to Eliot House. Unveiling the sculpture is the late presidents four-year-old great-grandson, Charles William Eliot 3rd. In the evening, CWEMA also holds a memorial meeting in Sanders Theatre that includes…

Through a trick of reflection, the 1901 Harvard football team, displayed in the window of the Leavitt and Peirce tobacco shop, look like they are posing in

Driven by both personal and humane concerns, Doug Melton has produced 17 new lines of embryonic stem cells, which can, in theory, be coaxed into becoming any type of adult tissue from kidneys to spinal cords.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers flung Harvards doors open even wider last week, outlining a new financial aid initiative intended as a clarion call to talented students from poor families and disadvantaged communities across the country.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced today a major new initiative designed to encourage talented students from families of low and moderate income to attend Harvard College.

Spanning four centuries, the exhibition Civitates Londinium: Maps of London from 1572, documents how London grew from town to city to megametropolis. The exhibition, open through June 30 at the Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library, is organized chronologically. Moving forward from map to map is like gazing on still frames from a highly sophisticated…

Pierre Auguste Renoirs 1887 painting The Great Bathers, a depiction of voluptuous female nudes cavorting in an idealized woodland pool, has elicited much critical response from art historians, particularly during the past few decades as feminist theory entered the discourse of art criticism.

According to Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, the solution to world poverty comes down to passports and apples.

Livingston Taylor (with special guests) performs a benefit concert at the Memorial Church on Tuesday (Feb. 24). A composer and performer with 14 albums to his name, Taylor has been described as an unrepentant romantic with a razor-sharp mind, a biting sense of humor, and a quirky view of the world.

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a protein in Old World monkeys that blocks infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). The finding could lead to improved animal models of AIDS for research and suggests that a similar molecule known to exist in humans might be exploited for prevention and therapy.

Harvard researchers are weighing in on the national ozone pollution debate, asserting that federal assumptions on natural background levels are wrong and may result in national standards that permit too much ozone pollution.

George Lopez, star of the hit ABC comedy that bears his name, has been named the 2004 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. Lopez will be awarded the foundations medal at Harvards Annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 28.

Nearly 60 projects in dance, music, theater, literature, and the visual arts will take place this spring at Harvard, sponsored in part through funding from the Office for the Arts (OFA). Selected by the Council on the Arts at Harvard, the projects include concerts, theater productions showcasing original student work, as well as classic musicals,…

After surviving teasing about his less memorable films, a therapy session with a neutered bulldog, and a red beaded bra and blue wig, actor Robert Downey Jr. received the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Pudding Pot Thursday night (Feb. 19) as its Man of the Year. The ceremony preceded the opening night performance of the Theatricals As…

Cultural historian Louis Menand lectured Feb. 12 on the three moments when pragmatism, a quintessentially American philosophy that he defined as an idea about ideas, gained ascendancy in American intellectual life. Unfortunately, according to Menand, the third and last moment has just passed.