Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted today (Dec. 12) to recommend to the Harvard Corporation that the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) change its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The School will continue to be a part of FAS.
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted today (Dec. 12) to recommend to the Harvard Corporation that the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) change its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The School will continue to be a part of FAS. The change in name was recommended by the DEAS Visiting Committee and several other advisory groups, and warmly endorsed by the Corporation.
Researchers have created the first map of genetic diversity of the malaria parasite, providing new insights in the fight against a public health scourge that kills one person every 30 seconds.
Too many 24-hour shifts worked by hospital interns cause medical mistakes that harm and may even kill patients, according to a new Harvard Medical School study. Doctors in training who…
The carved stone monolith tells the story of Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat, the 16th and last ruler of the Maya city of Copan, one of the most important sites in Maya history.
Dec. 2-3, 1942 – Seven Mexican and three Bolivian journalists visit Harvard while touring the U.S. and Canada to study wartime conditions. Dec. 9, 1944 – Alumni begin to respond…
Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died Oct. 12 in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 and had been in declining health after suffering a…
U.S. energy consumption will continue to rise in the years ahead, and along with it, America’s dependence on foreign energy sources. That was the message delivered Nov. 30 by former Congressman Philip Sharp to a group of 36 congressional freshmen attending the 17th biennial Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress at the Kennedy School.
The Cultural Agents Initiative, the Office of the Dean for the Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Harvard University Press have announced an undergraduate essay contest to explore the impact of literature on individual lives.
Five years ago, following a student-led worker-advocacy campaign, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine convened a committee of 11 faculty, four students, and five Harvard staff members (three unionized employees and two senior administrators), to address the issue of wages and working conditions for service workers at the University.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte identified terrorism as one of the most significant challenges facing both the Muslim and non-Muslim world. Speaking Friday night (Dec. 1) in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Negroponte cited the intelligence community’s recent successes in the fight against terrorism – last summer’s killing by the U.S. military of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the disruption by British intelligence of a plot to attack multiple Western aircraft.
First the bum out: Prior to UConn’s 3-2 upset of the Harvard women’s hockey team Tuesday night (Dec. 5), the Crimson had owned the longest win streak in all of Division 1 hockey this season. Now cheer up: In the final stretch of that eight-game streak, the women beat No. 7 University of Minnesota-Duluth, twice.
Visiting Professor of History Kenneth Maxwell, director of the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), recently announced the first class of Harvard’s 2006-07 Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellows.
You may remember Jamie Patrick Shea. In 1999, he was the NATO spokesman whose Cockney-accented daily briefings marked the progress of the 78-day bombing campaign in Kosovo.
As a 4-year-old boy in 1939, Charles Fried escaped with his family from Czechoslovakia in advance of the Nazi invasion. It was his first lesson in the meaning of liberty.
The cultures and religions of Africa and their influence on people in the New World, both black and white, has fascinated J. Lorand Matory since his undergraduate years at Harvard. His 1982 senior honors thesis, “A Broken Calabash,” explored connections between the religious worship of the Yoruba people of Nigeria and similar beliefs and practices that form a major component of the spiritual life of Brazil.
Through its visiting fellowships program, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Human Rights Program seeks to give thoughtful individuals with a demonstrated commitment to human rights an opportunity to step back and conduct a serious inquiry in the human rights field.
The hills, alas, are alive with the rumble of bulldozers and dump trucks. While the Swiss Alps may conjure up in Americans idyllic visions of Julie Andrews frolicking on a grassy hillside, a group of Swiss landscape architects recently brought to Harvard cautionary tales of their design battles against the ugly sprawl threatening to overrun parts of the iconic countryside.
On the dustiest days in the western United States, 40 percent of the grime blows in from Asia. And fine particles can travel all the way around the world from…
Scientists have discovered that mutations in a gene known as SOS1 account for many cases of Noonan syndrome (NS), a common childhood genetic disorder that occurs in one in 1,000…
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/.
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