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Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) selects a number of distinguished scholars and professionals, many from Latin America, to spend a minimum of one semester at Harvard. While in residence, visiting scholars and fellows spend time working on their own research and writing projects, making use of the Universitys extensive…

King, the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Divinity School, is the author of a new book, “What Is Gnosticism?” (Harvard University Press, 2003), which offers a provocative look at Christianity during its formative centuries and the heterogeneous array of groups, doctrines, and beliefs that all claimed to be inspired in some way by…

The incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), or kidney failure, has doubled over the past decade in the United States. Now researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have published a study that links abnormal cholesterol levels with the development of kidney problems, raising the possibility of preventing the onset of chronic kidney dysfunction by…

You know his music even if you dont know his name – the sprightly Sleighride, inescapable at Christmastime The Syncopated Clock, heard for 25 years as the theme of New Yorks Late Show The Typewriter, featuring a solo instrument more common in the office than the concert hall the million-selling Blue Tango Jazz Pizzicato A…

Cambridge Fire Department responds to a fire that ignited on the tarmac in the construction area on Kirkland Street behind the Design Schools Gund Hall. The firefighters managed to extinguish the fire without incident.

The University and the square have a special feel this time of year. Theres the usual bustle of activity, but its a sultry, slow sort of busyness, slow enough for the student, resident, or tourist to stop and smell the flowers, look at the postcards, or listen to the street musician play Summertime.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on May 28, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

When botanist Rebecca Pradhan returns to her native country of Bhutan this month, she will put her Harvard fellowship to good use. Pradhan is committed to preserving one of Earths last remaining sanctuaries with pristine biodiversity – the forests of Bhutan.

Its not enough for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure that foods are safe the agency should also require food producers to inform consumers about the health benefits of their products, said FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan at a conference titled Changing the American Diet: Imperatives and Opportunities, co-sponsored by the Harvard School…

In 1996, when he was deputy secretary of the treasury, Lawrence H. Summers received a cell phone call from his boss, Robert Rubin.

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have demonstrated that focused ultrasound, a novel, nonsurgical approach to the treatment of uterine fibroids, appears to be safe. The advent of this treatment, which can be performed as a day procedure, presents a dramatic alternative to current invasive methods such as hysterectomy, the most common cure…

A world of activity takes place around the fountain in front of the Science Center. The view is from the inside, as seen through a half-shaded and half-clear window.

Five high school science teachers peered into microscopes at the Science Center Friday (July 11) while others who had crowded into the small microscopy lab looked over their shoulders or at the computer screens nearby displaying images of stained skin cells.

Cross-dressing in the theater has a long and fascinating history, going back at least to the ancient Greeks. This summer, the Harvard Theatre Collection is presenting an exhibition that brings this history to life through rare playbills, posters, and photographs. The exhibition is open to the public in the Edward Sheldon Exhibition Rooms in Pusey…

When youre angry or afraid, its not just how you look but where you look that matters.

Some variation on the headline Asthma Rates on the Rise has been appearing in newspapers all over the United States for so long and with such frequency that many readers brains just flatline when they see it yet again. But if you take the time to check the statistics, they are indeed startling.

The late-afternoon sun casts elegant shadows of the Johnston Gate and passers-by.

Kicking off the most ambitious fundraising drive in the history of legal education, Harvard Law School (HLS) leaders gathered last month to launch Setting the Standard: The Harvard Law School Campaign. At a formal kickoff luncheon, the campaigns chairman, Finn M.W. Caspersen, announced that $170.1 million in commitments have already been secured toward a $400…

In an industry long associated with the old-fashioned corner store, the pharmacy at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) only recently stepped into the 21st century. Actually, with HUHS’ latest modernization…

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a pair of decisions on affirmative action programs at the University of Michigan that, despite different rulings, support the admissions policies of Harvard and other colleges and universities that use race as one of many factors in creating a diverse college class.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers gave this years 50th annual Blackfan lecture at Harvard-affiliated Childrens Hospital in Boston. The talk, delivered to a packed Enders Auditorium at the hospital, focused primarily on the economics of health care.

George McClelland Whitesides, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has been named a winner of the 2003 Kyoto Prize. Presented by the Inamori Foundation of Japan, the award is given to people who have contributed significantly to mankinds betterment in the categories of Advanced Technology, Basic Science, and Arts and Philosophy. Whitesides won…

Harvard announced in June that it will embark on a major new collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR), and several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, intended to bring the power of genomics to bear on the understanding of disease and to accelerate the search for cures.

Twenty-one objects from the permanent collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum are now part of a unique online exhibition about Germanys Bauhaus school of art. The interactive exhibition – Extra Ordinary Every Day: The Bauhaus at the Busch-Reisinger – can be viewed at www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sites/eoed through 2005.

The Earths ancient oceans were very different from todays, with oxygen-starved depths beneath oxygenated surface waters, Harvard researchers found in a study that provides clues about the Earths environment 1.5 billion years ago.