Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that the prostate specific antigen (PSA) cancer screening test is falsely lowered by a factor of two in middle-aged men who…
Overweight black Americans are two to three times more likely than heavy white Americans to say they are of average weight – even after being diagnosed as overweight or obese…
A new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows that America’s overweight teens consumed an average of 700 to 1,000 calories more than required each…
Ganmaa Davaasambuu is a physician (Mongolia), a Ph.D. in environmental health (Japan), a fellow (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), and a working scientist (Harvard School of Public Health). On Monday…
Lowell House senior, literature concentrator, and poet Emily Vasiliauskas has been named a 2007 Marshall Scholar and plans to spend the next two academic years studying at England’s Cambridge University.
At its seventh meeting of the year on Dec. 6, the Faculty Council held further discussions on general education, considered a proposal concerning evaluation of teaching fellows, and voted to…
Free flu shots are now available to all Harvard ID holders and HUGHP health plan members at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) every Monday and Tuesday through Dec. 19, and at a range of times and days at additional Harvard locations in Cambridge and Boston.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Dec. 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise…
Brazelton receives 2006 Arnold Lucius Gesell Prize T. Berry Brazelton, clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the 2006 Arnold Lucius Gesell Prize. The Theodor…
Harvard Foundation celebrates 25th anniversary The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation celebrated the 25th anniversary of the organization with a formal gala Saturday evening (Dec. 2) in the…
Freshman swimmer sets records At the University of Georgia Fall Invitational Sunday (Dec. 3), Harvard freshman Alexandra Clarke set a pair of school records to take second place in the…
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Wednesday (Dec. 6) launched a new Web site aimed at connecting the research of its faculty with educators in the field. The Usable Knowledge Web site features a diverse set of media – text, video, and audio – to make the leading research of its faculty accessible to educators all over the world.
By the time poet Emily Dickinson was 14 years old, she had undertaken the compilation of an herbarium, a book of pressed flowers and plants, a hobby among the girls of her time. The herbarium has long been a part of the Emily Dickinson Collection at Houghton Library, but due to its fragility the original had been in a vault for years – the last significant Dickinson Collection item completely off-limits.
At its sixth meeting of the year on Nov. 29, the Faculty Council held further discussions on general education and considered a proposal from Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti to change the…
Nov. 18, 1986 – The Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to establish an honors concentration in Women’s Studies by fall 1987. Nov. 19, 1986 – The city of Cambridge, local…
Bower memorial service Dec. 3 A memorial service for Nancy Milender Bower ’61, former research assistant to Professor Emeritus James Duesenberry (economics), the Littauer Center, and the Murray Center at…
Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise…
For more than 100 years, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s student-run, nonprofit public service organization, has made a meaningful impact on the people it serves in the Boston and Cambridge area.
Harvard College senior and environmental activist Scot Miller has been named one of 12 national recipients of the 2007-08 George J. Mitchell Scholarship. The award will support Miller’s graduate work in environmental studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Nine Harvard affiliates were recently awarded the distinction of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Eight days at a private vacation home in Greece, five days at the Maui Marriott, dinner for six cooked by Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean David Ellwood, or dinner for four with former KSG Dean Graham Allison are just a few of the big-ticket items up for bid at the 21st annual Summer Internship Fund (SIF) auction, Dec. 7 at KSG. A silent auction, featuring autographed books, dinners at local restaurants, and gift certificates, among other items, will begin at 5:30 p.m., to be followed by a live auction for the bigger prizes.
Allston-Brighton Family Network accepts HSPH-sponsored award The Allston-Brighton Family Network (ABFN) – a group of service providers, parents, and neighborhood residents who develop free activities and programs that support the…
Cusworth helps hoops bounce Lehigh The Harvard men’s basketball team prevented a four-game slide with an 83-75 dismissal of visiting Lehigh on Nov. 25. The victory marked the Crimson’s first…
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced on Nov. 20 an award of nearly $200 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to support applications and enhancements of large-scale DNA sequencing for biomedicine.
From the front steps of Baker Library at the Harvard Business School (HBS), you can see the ever-moving present: the glitter of traffic along Soldiers Field Road, the gliding Charles River, and, beyond the Weld Boat House, the distant bustle of Harvard.
The next Humanities Center ’20 Questions’ talk (date to be announced) will feature Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and author of the recent ‘What Terrorists Want.’ For more on the center, go to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/
The Open Collections Program (OCP) of the Harvard University Library has launched “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930,” a Web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard’s libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
America cannot walk away from Iraq without risking another world war. That warning was sounded at the Kennedy School forum Nov. 17 by Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), the man responsible for U.S. military strategy in the Middle East.
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