Countering the widespread view of evolution as a process played out over the course of eons, evolutionary biologists have shown that natural selection can turn on a dime – within…
Scientists have found a new task managed by the antibody that’s the workhorse of the human immune system: Inside cells, immunoglobulin G (IgG) helps bring together the phagosomes that corral…
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that eating more red meat may be associated with a higher risk for hormone receptor–positive breast cancers in premenopausal women. This…
Nairobi’s Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding violence to Kibera’s toxic stew of poverty, AIDS, and despair.
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.
World-renowned scientist and author Jane Goodall will receive the 2007 Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). Goodall will deliver the Peterson Memorial Lecture March 18 at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. A book signing at the museum (26 Oxford St.) will follow the lecture.
When Julie Freischlag was in grade school, her grandfather, a coal miner, told her that she was smart enough to become anything she wanted and not to let anyone tell her otherwise.
TED Prize awards Wilson a wish Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, has recently been named a recipient of the TED Prize, which awards $100,000 to the winner…
United Ministry at Harvard to sponsor lunchtime talks An umbrella organization of nearly 40 chaplains representing 26 of the world’s religious traditions, the United Ministry at Harvard is committed to…
Dawson slips past Marinaro in Penn loss In a 22-13 losing effort at Penn, senior running back Clifton Dawson picked up 119 yards on 16 carries to topple the Ivy…
The executive director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Eric Belsky, opened a national summit on rental housing policy Tuesday morning (Nov. 14) with a sobering assessment of America’s rental properties as increasingly unaffordable, rundown, and concentrated in blighted neighborhoods.
The founding director of Harvard’s University-wide ethics center, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, is stepping down at the end of this academic year, after 20 years of leading the institution’s efforts in education and scholarship in ethics.
At its fifth meeting of the year on Nov. 8, the Faculty Council discussed general education, and received a report from Dean Theda Skocpol on the activities of the Task…
Symonds memorial service on Nov. 13 at Agassiz Theatre A memorial service for Alan Symonds, technical director for Harvard College Theatre Programs under the Office for the Arts at Harvard,…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 6. 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…
On Nov. 3 at approximately 2:30 a.m., a male undergraduate reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that he was robbed at the corner of Garden and Sheppard streets. Three unidentified males, one of whom was armed with what appeared to be a handgun, approached the victim. The armed suspect then threw the victim to the ground and demanded that he hand over his belongings. The victim was robbed of his wallet and cell phone. After the victim handed over his property he was struck in the head with the handgun. The offenders then fled the area. The victim was treated for minor injuries and released; he was unable to provide a detailed description of the suspects.
When Susan Athey was a junior at Duke University in 1990, her adviser suggested she do a thesis on government timber auctions, a subject she agreed to only reluctantly because she thought the topic would be too tedious.
Eight additional Harvard affiliates have recently been named Visiting Fulbright Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year. The initial group of Harvard Fulbright Scholars – composed of nine recent Harvard College graduates and 14 current and former students of the University – was announced in the Aug. 24 issue of the Harvard Gazette (available online at http://www.news-harvard.go-vip.net/gazette/gazette/2006/08.24/99-fulbright.html).
Three Harvard faculty members – a geneticist, an economist, and a stem cell biologist – are on the 2006 “Scientific American 50,” Scientific American magazine’s annual list of science and technology leaders.
Career fair to have European flair The European Commission is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) European Club to organize a science and technology space at MIT’s upcoming…
The evolution of this year’s Harvard men’s soccer team – from 3-1 losers to Penn in their Ivy opener back in September to recent winners of the Ivy League championship – was hardly a smooth and steady progression. On the contrary, the 2006 Crimson, who downed visiting Columbia 3-1 this past Saturday (Nov. 4) to earn the Harvard program its first league title in 10 years and 12th overall, evolved this season with all the subtlety of a thunderbolt.
World War II, with its influx of multiracial colonial volunteers and billeted American troops, was the caldron that created Great Britain as a state in which race became an instrument of policy and a tool of cultural division.
The Leon Levy Foundation has established the Philip J. King Professorship to support an outstanding scholar of the ancient world, Harvard University announced today (Nov. 9). The gift underscores the foundation’s commitment to fostering a cross-cultural academic environment that aims to understand ancient civilizations such as those in the Near East and the Mediterranean basin.
A cross-faculty effort to understand life’s most basic mystery – how complex chemicals can become the simplest organisms – kicked off Wednesday (Nov. 8) with a symposium at the Gutman Conference Center.
Community violence and poverty are not the only aspects of neighborhoods that predict adolescent crime, according to Harvard University sociologist Patrick Sharkey. In a study released in the latest issue of the American Sociological Review, Sharkey finds that community organization, familial relations, and personal attributes all shape an adolescent’s decision to engage in or refrain from violence.
The American Society for Landscape Architects (ASLA) honored faculty and students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) with its highest awards at the society’s annual meeting last month in Minneapolis.
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