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  • Darrel B. Hoff dies at 76

    Darrel B. Hoff, 76, who taught at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for six years, died on Nov. 2 at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa.

  • Alex Killorn named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week

    Alex Killorn ’12 was named the ECAC player of the week on Nov. 2 after notching two goals and an assist in the Crimson’s 5-3 victory over Dartmouth on Oct. 30.

  • Kuss Middle School students learn about astronomy in science program

    Fall River — An extended day program at Matthew J. Kuss Middle School has a group of students shooting for the stars. On Oct. 21, science teachers Sarah Chapin and Sandy Sullivan brought 26 students from their Astronomy 2 class to Harvard University to learn about a robotic telescope they are able to control from school…

  • In fight over credit rules, she wields a plan

    CAMBRIDGE – Her critics portray her as an ivory tower elitist intent on disrupting the American Dream. But to her legions of fans in the Democratic Party, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren is the nation’s leading economic David, fighting to protect middle-class families from corporate Goliaths…

  • Crimson rally against Dartmouth to clinch share of Ivy title

    Junior Katherine Sheeleigh scored two goals including the game-winning tally in the 87th minute on Oct. 31 to lead the Harvard women’s soccer team to a 2-1 win over Dartmouth. With the win, the Crimson earn at least a share of the Ivy League title and the automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.

  • Football pounds Dartmouth, 42-21

    For a second straight season, Harvard’s offensive line and running backs dictated play as the Crimson collected 315 yards via the ground en route to a 42-21 whitewashing of Dartmouth at Harvard Stadium on Saturday (Oct. 31).

  • Harvard to become largest institutional buyer of wind power in New England

    Harvard University announced today (Nov. 2) that more than 10 percent of the electricity consumed on its Cambridge and Allston campuses soon will be supplied from a wind farm in northern Maine

  • Men’s soccer tops Dartmouth, 2-1

    In the 83rd edition of the Harvard-Dartmouth rivalry, No. 14 Harvard downed No. 21 Dartmouth, 2-1, in Ivy League men’s soccer action Saturday (Oct. 31).

  • New Group Helps US Monitor Swine Flu Shot Safety

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Independent health advisers begin monitoring safety of the swine flu vaccine on Monday, an extra step the government promised in this year’s unprecedented program to watch for possible side effects… ”Given the rapidity with which this particular vaccine was rolled out, there seems to be an extra-special obligation to make sure things remain as uncomplicated as they have in the past,” Dr. Marie McCormick of the Harvard School of Public Health, who chairs the working group, told the AP…

  • Findings on Mysterious Haze at Galaxy’s Center

    In the latest episode of their continuing efforts to embrace and understand the dark side of creation, astronomers sifting data from a new satellite say they have discerned the existence of a mysterious haze of high-energy particles surrounding the center of the Milky Way galaxy… “Obviously we wouldn’t be doing this if we didn’t think it could be dark matter,” said one of the authors, Douglas Finkbeiner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

  • Harvard vs. Princeton – Men’s Soccer

    Harvard falls to Princeton in a tough, mid-Fall battle.

  • GQ Ranks Elizabeth Warren Among D.C.’s Most Powerful

    Harvard Law School professor and bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren took the 30th spot on GQ’s biennial list for her role as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on the Troubled Asset Relief Program…

  • Swine Flu Hit Millions in Spring, Agency Says

    There were 1.8 million to 5.7 million cases of swine flu in the country during the epidemic’s first spring wave, according to a new estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday… From 9,000 to 21,000 people were hospitalized as a result, and up to 800 died from April to July, when it largely faded out, according to the estimates, which were conducted by the C.D.C. and the Harvard School of Public Health and published online in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases…

  • Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School

    When programmers at the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston were asked to create a grants database for researchers, they knew where to start. They simply asked the hospital’s affiliated Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors about their Facebook-surfing habits.

  • The piano man

    Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.

  • Labor intensive

    Newly tenured, the first full-time Americanist in the history of the Department of History of Art and Architecture enjoys how her studies can touch on literature, the sciences — even bird-watching.

  • Many hands

    More than 60 Harvard volunteers descended on the 80-year-old Cambridge Community Center Inc. (CCC) Saturday (Oct. 24) for a much-needed, daylong facelift.

  • Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Green ’13 is a new initiative from the class of 2013 that aims to change the culture of personal behavior, starting with being more sustainable.

  • Harvard Forest announces Bullard Fellows in Forest Research

    Harvard Forest recently announced the 2009-10 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. The fellowship program was established in 1962 to support the advanced research of individuals who show promise in making important contributions to forestry.

  • Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Cherry A. Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, hosted her first “all-hands” community meeting on Oct. 16 to outline her ambitious 10-year plan for the School.

  • Donald Harnish Fleming

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Donald Harnish Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Donald Fleming was a scholar of intellectual history and the history of science and medicine.

  • Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School

    When programmers at the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston were asked to create a grants database for researchers, they knew where to start. They simply asked the hospital’s affiliated Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors about their Facebook-surfing habits.

  • Harris Wang wins 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition

    Harris Wang, doctoral student in biophysics at Harvard Medical School, wins grand prize in Collegiate Inventors Competition.

  • Administrative Fellowship Program names nine fellows

    Continuing the legacy of a flagship leadership development fellowship for high-potential academic administrators of color, nine new fellows have been selected for the 2009-10 class of the Administrative Fellowship Program.

  • Paul Goldhaber

    Dean emeritus Paul Goldhaber, dean at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) for 22 years, died July 14, 2008, at the age of 84. With a passion for research and an insatiable curiosity, he worked tirelessly with the hope that his lab work would encourage others to do the same.

  • Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute

    Don’t be puzzled. Be moved and amazed. Those 10 conical piles of rock, sand, and aggregate in one corner of Radcliffe Yard are actually “Stock-Pile,” a work of landscape art.

  • ‘The Lab’ opener set for Nov. 8

    Members of the Harvard community are invited to celebrate the opening (Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m.) of The Laboratory at Harvard, a new platform for student idea experimentation in the arts and sciences.

  • Mark E. Richard named professor of philosophy

    Mark E. Richard, who specializes in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and metaphysics and epistemology, has been named professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2010.

  • Gardner receives honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Bard University

    Robert Gardner, an associate in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard, was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Bard University on Oct. 25.

  • How-to guide for flu coverage

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard launched a comprehensive online guide to covering pandemic flu.