Campus & Community
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Endowment offers Harvard flexibility but also risks
Economist speaks of balancing act between immediate needs and long-term planning
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Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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‘This is weakening the United States.’
Scholars react to Trump administration actions against Harvard and other institutions
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The food was good. The conversation was better.
‘Our Harvard’ brings students together to tackle tough issues
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New experiences at their fingertips
Course on tactile reading shows students ‘Why Braille Matters’
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Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
Changes pushed by government ‘unmoored from the law,’ Garber says. ‘The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.’
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Time travel in chalk
Members of Professor Ann Pearson’s lab switched from science to art recently, decorating the slate panels outside the Hoffman Laboratory with depictions of three great eras in Earth’s history: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.
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Adrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology at Harvard University, effective next Jan. 1.
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Kindergarten skills pay off in big bucks
Harvard-led study shows children, whether rich or poor, who were in top-scoring kindergarten classes back in the 1980s have grown up to earn about $1,000 more a year than their peers in weaker performing classes…
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U.S. grants visa to journalist and Nieman fellow
The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to leading Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. He is now free to travel to the United States, where he will begin a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
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B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media
Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile) and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business (Columbia Full-Time MBA Profile) have joined a growing list of business schools that are adding courses on social media to their MBA curricula…
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Nasa Discoveries Spark Hopes Of Alien Life
Nasa’s planet-hunting deep space observatory has found hundreds of new potential planets, sparking hopes of finding other worlds similar to Earth… Scientists say the results contradict older theories that had…
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Zon, Scadden recognized by American Society of Hematology
Two Harvard faculty members and members of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, David Scadden and Leonard Zon, have won awards from the American Society of Hematology for contributions to understanding and treating blood diseases.
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Eat, pray, Lefty’s
Lefty’s Silver Cart is the work of Philip Francis, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Divinity School with an affinity for profound reflection, and for produce.
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Golden state for Lin
Former Harvard star Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent guard, was signed by the Golden State Warriors yesterday…
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Learning in the labs
This summer 300 undergraduates from across the country have come to Harvard to pursue research opportunities. Long a mecca for students seeking such experiences, the University’s various research programs existed independently until this year. Now, they’re working in tandem with the Office of the Provost.
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German art scholar named associate curator at Busch-Reisinger Museum
Lynette Roth, a specialist in German art of the early 20th century, has been named the Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum.
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Jeremy Lin ’10 signs with Warriors
Former Crimson basketball co-captain Jeremy Lin ’10 has been signed as a point guard to the Golden State Warriors.
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Conflict of interest policy adopted
The Harvard Corporation has adopted a University-wide conflict of interest policy, the first time such a policy has been crafted to cover faculty members across the entire campus.
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Medical School revises COI policy
Harvard Medical School released a series of revisions to its conflict of interest policy that strengthens its commitment to transparency and financial disclosure while recognizing the School’s commitment to industry collaboration.
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Guidelines for Schools’ conflict of interest policies
The new Harvard University Policy on Individual Financial Conflicts of Interest for Persons Holding Faculty and Teaching Appointments (University Conflict of Interest Policy) is built upon 12 principles that establish a framework to guide the Schools in developing their implementation plans.
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Academy of Management awards Noam T. Wasserman
Noam T. Wasserman, associate professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year M.B.A. elective course “Founders’ Dilemmas.”
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Six Harvard affiliates receive Damon Runyon fellowships
Six Harvard affiliates have been named recipients of fellowships by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting exceptional early-career researchers and innovative cancer research.
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HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain appointed to SEAS faculty
Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 has been appointed to the faculty of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as professor of computer science.
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Female Academics Less Satisfied Than Male Counterparts
In the survey, led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, women reported less satisfaction with reasonableness of scholarship expectations for tenure, whether their institutions make raising children and the tenure track compatible and the way they spend their time as faculty, among others…
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Green Team scores
In the three years since its inception, the volunteer Green Team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — 15 students, faculty, and staff — has made significant strides.
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Partners to build Haiti hospital
Partners In Health, the Boston-based global health initiative that has been the face of health care in Haiti after the devastating earthquake six months ago, is building a new teaching hospital there.
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New CIO for Harvard
Harvard appoints Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A seasoned executive with 30 years of experience, her hiring marks her return to the University.
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Harvard University appoints Anne H. Margulies as Chief Information Officer
Harvard appoints Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A seasoned executive with 30 years of experience, her hiring marks her return to the University.
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Australia-Harvard Fellowships taking applications
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2011 Australia-Harvard Fellowships, awards aimed at midcareer and senior Harvard-based science and technology researchers intending collaborative projects in Australia.
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Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants
Nine rising seniors pursuing a secondary field in health policy have been awarded Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants by the Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy.
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Racing down the river
Master swimmers will race in the Charles River, where one Harvard professor sees an opportunity for lessons.
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From scorched lot to library park
About 20 children participated in an interactive session at the Honan-Allston Branch Library that outlined the creation of Library Park, which is slated to open next year. Construction is to begin next week.
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Screams from Greek stage aim for doctors’ hearts
As medical technologies extend the lives of the sickest, medical schools across the country have struggled to find a way to help doctors better navigate new moral quandaries around death and dying.
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Ivy League, Harvard announce unintentional secondary basketball violation
The Ivy League and Harvard University announced today that Harvard has declared an unintentional secondary violation in connection with conversations in the summer of 2007 between current assistant men’s basketball…
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Here she is, Miss Massachusetts
Barely a month into the world as a new Harvard College graduate, Loren Galler Rabinowitz has already skyrocketed to success as the new Miss Massachusetts.