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David G. Freiman, pathologist in chief at Beth Israel Hospital from 1956 to 1979 and the first person at Beth Israel to hold a chair endowed by Harvard Medical School, has died from complications resulting from a fall in his home. He was 92.

Memorial services are often somber affairs, but when the person being honored lived well beyond the biblical three score and ten, was productive, nay, indispensable, up until his final days, left behind a list of accomplishments that would have been impressive had they been parceled out among a dozen lesser mortals, and touched the lives…

Venerable Mallinckrodt Lab is reflected in the more modern building across the street.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, comparing data on the rates of use of 12 specific high-cost operative procedures among Medicare beneficiaries in for-profit and not-for-profit health plans, found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, enrollees in for-profit health plans were no less likely to have the procedures done. The findings appear in the…

Have you heard the one about the Muslim woman who walked into the comedy club wearing a headscarf?

Theres beauty everywhere, even underfoot, if you only look. A puddle captures the tower of Harvard Hall gracefully framed by a bare winter tree. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)

Ask most people to pull up a mental image of a physicist, and theyll likely present a wild-haired amalgam of Albert Einstein and Bill Gates wearing Buddy Holly glasses, a lab coat, and yesterdays lunch on his shirt. After all, it hardly matters what you look like if youre doing great science, right?

For the first time in Harvards history, women outnumber men in gaining admission to the College under the Early Action program. Early Action admissions for the Class of 2008 total 906, 50.9 percent of which are women. For quite some time, we have been on the verge of reaching this milestone. Alumni/ae, faculty, students, and…

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 weeks beginning Dec. 7 and ending Jan. 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will conduct an accreditation survey of Harvard University Health Services on Feb. 10 -13.

Jan. 10, 1921 – In the Music Building’s John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Marian MacDowell, widow of composer Edward MacDowell, gives a lecture on “The MacDowell Colony at Peterborough” (the…

At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed three interrelated topics: (1) The extension of the Infrastructure Fund (2) The rise in and effects of the fringe benefit rate and (3) Faculty of Arts and Sciences financial results for FY 2003 and prospects for this and future years. Ann Berman, vice president…

A memorial service for Kennedy School faculty member Susan C. Eaton will be held Saturday (Jan. 10) at 10:30 a.m. at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Eaton died Dec. 30 from complications of leukemia. She was 46.

On Dec. 11 at approximately 7 p.m. a graduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street toward Dunster Street when she was approached by a male who attempted to grab her crotch while walking by her. The victim pulled back causing the suspect to briefly touch her thigh. The suspect and the victim continued to…

Paloma Valverde knows scorpion venom. A biochemist, she has worked with it for years, and marveled at how it can both kill prey and fight a number of diseases in both animals and humans.