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  • Corporation search committee invites nominations and advice

    Members of the Harvard community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing board.

  • A first for Harvard

    For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students have applied for undergraduate admission. Applications have doubled since 1994, and about half of the increase has come since the University implemented a series of financial aid initiatives over the past five years to ensure that a Harvard College education remains accessible and affordable to talented students from all economic backgrounds.

  • Harvard opens skating rink in Allston

    Harvard University will open a free skating rink in Allston on Friday (Jan. 15). The 40-by-60-foot temporary indoor rink will be open to the public Fridays and weekends through March 28.

  • Mathematician gains dual appointments

    Sophie Morel, a young mathematician whose research involves algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory, is named professor of mathematics in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She also is named to the Radcliffe Alumnae Professorship.

  • Xie to receive award from DOE

    Harvard Professor Sunney Xie was one of six recipients of the 2009 E.O. Lawrence Award.

  • Catching up on lost sleep a dangerous illusion

    People who are chronically sleep-deprived may think they’re caught up after a 10-hour night of sleep, but new research shows that although they’re near-normal when they awake, their ability to function deteriorates markedly as night falls…

  • H1N1 vaccine clinic

    Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received a new shipment of H1N1 influenza vaccine and will distribute it at a clinic open to all members of the Harvard community under age 65.

  • Harvard on Foursquare

    Harvard University announced its presence on foursquare, creators of a new location-based, mobile social networking application. The service, which is accessible from smartphones and other mobile devices, enables students and visitors to explore the campus and surrounding neighborhoods while sharing information about their favorite places.

  • It’s not easy being Big Green

    Surging Harvard men’s basketball team runs away from Dartmouth, 76-47, to continue best start in its 99-year history.

  • Harvard China internship program open to Harvard College students

    The Harvard China Student Internship Program is accepting applications through Jan. 29.

  • Toxic Metal Found in Kids’ Jewelry Very Dangerous

    Cadmium is particularly dangerous for children because growing bodies readily absorb substances, and cadmium accumulates in the kidneys for decades.

  • Swim School offering spring classes

    The Harvard Swim School, which provides swimming and diving lessons for adults and children (ages 5 and up), will offer Saturday morning classes (March 27-May 1) at Blodgett Pool and the Malkin Athletic Center.

  • Harvard prof receives IIT-M distinguished alumnus award

    “Why do you read Shakespeare? And you don’t learn plumbing and electrical work because they are useful in daily life, do you?” responds Harvard University professor L Mahadevan when he’s asked about the relevance of mathematics in daily life.

  • Thompson wins writing grant

    Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson wins creative-writing fellowship to research her book project on how the Polynesians came to settle the Pacific region.

  • Mass. lags on homes for assisted living

    Assisted living has rapidly emerged over the past decade as the long-term care of choice for older Americans, but a Harvard Medical School study reveals that in Massachusetts, this type of housing is far less available than it is nationwide.

  • Atul Gawande’s ‘Checklist’ For Surgery Success

    Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for the New Yorker when he’s not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a man who came into an emergency room with a stab wound…

  • Ihor Ševčenko

    Ihor Ševčenko, prominent Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard, died Dec. 26 at age 87.

  • When a coach may help

    Although Kauffman is a psychologist, this is coaching, not therapy. Codirector of the new Institute of Coaching at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, she is working to solidify the growing body of evidence-based research supporting the relatively new field that is often defined by what it is not…

  • Panel finds no digestion problem specific to autism

    An advisory panel says there is no rigorous evidence that digestive problems are more common in children with autism compared with other children or that special diets work, contrary to claims by celebrities and vaccine opponents…

  • Couple donates $1m for nursing program

    Wellesley residents Burton and Gloria Rose recently presented Hebrew SeniorLife with a $1 million gift to support its Nursing Career Development Program, which allows certified nursing assistants who work for Hebrew SeniorLife to become licensed practical nurses…

  • Biotech firms, Hub hospitals strengthen ties

    Two Boston teaching hospitals are stepping up research into cardiovascular disease in separate programs that illustrate the deepening collaboration between academic medical centers and the biopharmaceutical industry.

  • More vaccine but fewer takers, H1N1 surveys indicate

    Pandemic influenza vaccine is getting much easier to find but more than half of American adults say they still don’t want it, and one-third of parents say they don’t want their children to get it either, according to two surveys.

  • Doctors Seek Aid From Business Schools

    Dr. Barton is one of 68 students enrolled in Harvard Business School’s Managing Health Care Delivery, a $22,000 non-degree program that launched in October and consists of three one-week courses spread out over nine months.

  • Skilled with scalpel and pen

    There’s not much downtime in Dr. Atul Gawande’s days. In between cases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the 44-year-old surgeon researches articles for The New Yorker magazine and his best-selling books, but sits down for a little Q&A with the Boston Globe.

  • Elizabeth Warren is the Bostonian of the Year

    It seemed as if the banks and other firms got a $700 billion bonanza and the American taxpayer got the shaft. But along came this straight-shooting Harvard professor to oversee the bailout, someone who pledged to look out for the middle class and brought a sense of sanity to the economic crisis. For this we give her our top honors this year.

  • The Spark: Diane Paulus

    It was nearing 2 a.m. on a spring night in 1990, and 24-year-old Diane Paulus was unwinding with a group of young actors who, like her, had just completed a round of acting classes with the legendary director Mike Nichols.

  • Widening horizons

    No. 1-ranked Harvard women’s squash team heads to India over break to give clinics, sample culture.

  • FXB Center’s new director

    Jennifer Leaning, a public health expert with extensive field experience in human rights crises, has been named director of the University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

  • A snapshot of Harvard’s emission reductions

    In 2007, Harvard University pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, inclusive of growth, 30 percent by 2016, with 2006 as the baseline year. University-wide, GHG reductions are around 5 percent so far, including growth. The reductions are due to changes in Harvard’s energy supply and to activities and projects at Schools and units.

  • Poetry in motion

    A novice poet learns her craft by presenting her work in front of open-mic audiences at Adams House.