Campus & Community

Professor Holly Prigerson, director of the Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has confronted the issue professionally and personally. Last fall Prigerson and her co-investigators published a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association examining how end-of-life care discussions between doctors and terminal patients affected the patients’ quality of life and that of their caregivers. They found that both patients and loved ones were likely to fare better, based on a variety of criteria. Yet many doctors are disinclined to broach the subject…

As the newly arrived Class of 2013 settles into the brick dormitories of Harvard Yard, they are already distinguished as the first matriculating class to study exclusively under the new requirements of Harvard College’s Program in General Education.

Harvard Graduate School of Design students unite to help Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood bring back a local library that was demolished 50 years ago to make way for Boston’s Central Artery.

This week, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) reported the first success in generating new populations of insulin-producing cells using skin cells of type 1 diabetes patients.

The Fine Arts Library (FAL) is now open in its temporary space in the Littauer Building in the North Yard.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Harvard University Department of Music have announced that Jameson Marvin will retire as director of choral activities at Harvard.

The HUPD has released a report which includes information on how to report a crime, HUPD’s crime prevention programs, and other important information about security and HUPD services on campus.

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies recently announced a total of 20 incoming fellows, visiting scholars, and award recipients for the 2009-10 academic year.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has announced its new fellows and senior scholars for 2009-10. The faculty fellows were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.

Houghton Library, Harvard’s main rare book and manuscript depository, has vast holdings collected over centuries. Yet until these available resources are cataloged, they are considered “hidden collections” — difficult to find.

Giovanni Parmigiani and Francesca Dominici have been named professors of biostatistics at HSPH.

The Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its six resident fellows and three visiting fellows for the fall semester.

Elementary and high school teachers attend a weeklong Harvard workshop on oil and the economic, political, and environmental issues that accompany it.

Melissa McCormick reflects on her journey from modern dance to her current position as a newly tenured professor of Japanese art and culture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.

In recent town-hall meetings, President Barack Obama has called for a national debate on health-care reform based on facts.

There was nothing nostalgic about MC Hammer’s appearance yesterday before 100 entrepreneurs and marketing professionals who gathered at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge for the Gravity Summit conference on social media marketing.

To enhance the Harvard community’s campus experience, the University will install tables and chairs within Harvard Yard and the Radcliffe Quad and host open-air performances.

Ants make some people cringe — but for E. O. Wilson and Will Wright, they provide never-ending fascination.

In an era when few dentists were women and even fewer specialized in orthodontics, French-born Laure Lebret became well known in the field as a researcher and practitioner.

“I’m reclaiming a tradition that almost got lost,’’ [Harvey Cox] said last week on the porch of his summer house in Woods Hole. “Why can’t we have cows grazing in Harvard Yard?”

Todd Byers was among more than 20,000 people running the San Francisco Marathon last month. Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, he might have blended in with the other runners, except for one glaring difference: he was barefoot.

Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship. DASH — Digital Access to Scholarship — is an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library.

The chaos at town-hall meetings this month was just a vivid symptom of an older and much larger problem. Even at the outset of American democracy, the framers and average citizens alike were concerned about communication between elected officials and their constituents.

Doctors doing a needle biopsy to analyze tissue for cancer may one day add a second step to the procedure: depositing a tiny device at the site to report on growth of a tumor — and even the effects of chemotherapy.

“The Human Family Tree,’’ airing tomorrow on National Geographic Channel, tells us when, where, and how humanity spread from Africa across the globe.

Sigmund Freud arrived in Hoboken, N.J., 100 years ago today on his first and only visit to the United States.

Are you scheduled for surgery in 2010? If so, you should know that agreeing to an operation involves some risk. This is a fact of life, and there may never be a way to reduce the risk to zero. But a study from Harvard Medical School shows there’s a proven way to cut deaths following surgery by 40%.

Harvard University officials today (Aug. 28) announced plans to implement recommendations included in a recently issued report that examined Harvard University Police Department’s (HUPD) relations with the rest of the…

Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls feel pressured to have perfect bodies, U.S. and Canadian researchers found. The researchers found a direct association between body satisfaction and weight in fifth graders — part of the age group increasingly known as tweens by those in media marketing…