To celebrate Dunster’s 400th year, the Harvard University Archives, with generous support from the Sidney Verba Fund, has digitized the Dunster family papers and made them available on the Internet.
Robert D. “Bob” Utiger, M.D., a beloved physician, researcher, mentor, educator, and editor died on June 29, 2008 at his home in Weston, Massachusetts. He was the epitome of the Academic Physician, a scholar, physician, teacher, and friend and a role model for each of us to emulate.
Maria Gough, a scholar of the Soviet and Russian avant-garde, has been appointed Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.
The Anatomical Gift Program is an invaluable part of students’ learning. Any person of sound mind who is over 18 years of age can register to donate his or her body for education, research, and the advancement of medical and dental science or therapy.
Kristen Calandrelli ’10, explored her longstanding interest in foreign policy and international relations while working with the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the American Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark.…
Julius Benjamin Richmond, M.D., Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine was born in Chicago, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, on 26 September, 1916. He died at his home in Brookline, MA on 27 July, 2008. Few individuals have had as great an impact on health, health care, and the well-being of children. He left us all a rich legacy.
A team of Harvard students has won the grand prize in AT&T’s Big Mobile On Campus Challenge, a national higher-education contest to develop mobile communications platforms.
Jay Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at Harvard Business School (HBS), was named to Directorship magazine’s Corporate Governance Hall of Fame.
This winter, Guhan Subramanian will publish “Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace,” a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate transactions and high-stakes personal ones, such as buying a home or car.
The Harvard women’s soccer team clinched a share of its second consecutive Ivy League Championship on Oct. 31, and with it an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. But after punching a ticket to the postseason, the Crimson took care of some unfinished business on Nov. 7, claiming the title outright with a 2-1 overtime triumph at Columbia.
It’s a Harvard tradition for a group of freshmen to be named to the First-Year Social Committee (FYSC). The FYSC plans special events throughout the year. This fall, the group hosted the annual Costume Catwalk Oct. 30. Described as an opportunity for freshmen to “schmooze with Dean Dingman,” the event elicited comments as varied as the costumes.
After No. 2 Clarkson handed the Harvard women’s hockey team its second defeat of the season Nov. 6 by a score of 2-1, the No. 10-ranked Crimson picked themselves up and responded forcefully Nov. 7 with a 3-0 shutout of No. 7 St. Lawrence for the Crimson’ 500th win in the program’s history.
Lamont Library recently opened Collaborative Learning Space, an innovative learning space designed to foster collaboration and bring a new level of flexibility to library instruction.
After the Crimson’s 34-14 victory over Columbia on Nov. 7, only one obstacle still stands in the way of the Harvard football team’s third consecutive Ivy League Championship. That obstacle resides in Philadelphia.
Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson, whose “The Ascent of Money” book and TV series traced the world’s financial system, last night painted a pessimistic prognosis for U.S. recovery unless the government takes decisive action.
His book “The Money of Invention” examined the role of venture capital. “Innovation and Its Discontents,” cowritten with Adam Jaff, looked at how changes in intellectual property have hurt the process of innovation. His new book, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” examines why public efforts to boost entrepreneurial innovation so often comes up short…
Harvard University has made steady progress toward a more diverse faculty and the numbers of women and minority members stand at all-time highs, according to the annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D).
For safely landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River and saving the lives of his passengers, the Harvard Foundation will present the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award to skillful pilot and airline safety expert Chesley Sullenberger on Nov. 11 at Memorial Church at 6 p.m.
Pity the Boston car salesman who negotiated across the table from Charles A. Nelson III, a Harvard neuroscience professor who runs the nation’s top laboratory studying how people learn to decode facial expressions…
In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological…
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University, Yale University and three other schools are pledging to encourage companies to give poor countries better access to drugs and medical products based on…
Dispute resolution programs now offer master’s and even doctoral degrees at some campuses, among them the University of Massachusetts at Boston, MIT, Tufts, and Brandeis. The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is a renowned source of expertise in the field….
At its fifth meeting of the year (Nov. 4), the Faculty Council discussed changes to the protocol regarding the use of human subjects in research and a proposal regarding the…
WASHINGTON – Americans’ opinion of the health care proposals now before Congress is eerily similar to public sentiment about the Clinton health reform initiatives in 1994, according to an analysis published online yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine – and that may not bode well for Democrats…
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