Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has awarded its highest honor for the promotion of high public health standards among vulnerable populations to William H. Foege, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
For at least the past five years, the primary message of those seeking political and financial support for stem cell science has been that the research offers enormous hope of leading to treatments and cures for a myriad of diseases, including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, Parkinson’s, and even paralysis following spinal cord injury.
In 2004, German police captured a man they believed had kidnapped a young boy. They questioned him for two days, and then, fearing for the child’s safety, a senior officer authorized an interrogator to use pain, if necessary, to get information.
When you’re fighting flu or any other infection, your body mobilizes battalions of cells to defend against the invading viruses or bacteria. But once the invaders have been defeated and…
Marsha T. saw the lights of pain coming. They flashed and zigzagged before her eyes. Her visual field shrank into a tunnel. A registered nurse, she knew what was next.…
Reflections on terror, imagined and real, are making a visit to Boston this month, during an intentional confluence of events that explore the Soviet-era gulag.
Free flu shots are now available for high-risk adults every Monday and Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m. at Harvard University Health Services at Holyoke Center.
Dunn memorial on Nov. 3 at the Memorial Church A memorial service for Charles W. Dunn, the Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, will be held…
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…
Highlighting her leadership in opposing marketing to children, the American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded Susan Linn, instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), its prestigious Presidential Citation. The award was presented Oct. 28 in Boston at the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood’s fifth annual summit, “Consuming Kids: Marketing in Schools and Beyond.”
Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, died on Oct. 12, 2006, in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 years old, and had been in declining health after suffering a stroke in August 2005.
Nancy Brigham Cyr recently joined the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research as the new institute administrator. She comes to the Du Bois Institute from Harvard University Health Services, where she served as budget director for seven years. Cyr has held several administrative positions at Harvard including department administrator at the Graduate School of Education and budget director at Radcliffe College. Additionally, she is a freshman adviser and a host to international visitors through the University’s International Office and the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government.
In a series of three talks last week (Oct. 24-26), novelist Walter Mosley explored the themes of redemption, forgiveness, and identity through his character, street philosopher Socrates Fortlow. The occasion was the annual Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures.
Community Gifts kicks off season of giving November marks the beginning of the monthlong Community Gifts through Harvard campaign – the University’s workplace charitable giving campaign. The goal for this…
Football bounces Big Green, stays alive in title hunt The Harvard football team earned its first shutout since the 2004 season this past Saturday (Oct. 28) with a 28-0 blanking…
The Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Initiative at Harvard Law School (HLS) is a new partnership between the School’s Human Rights Program and its Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Promoting academic research (as well as engagement in practical measures related to that research) for the purpose of bringing a legal perspective to bear on the development and application of global public health and human rights norms, the initiative is now accepting applications for its Global Health and Human Rights Fellowship. The fellowship is a full-time, residential program for up to two full years. Global health fellows will have offices at either the Petrie-Flom Center or the Human Rights Program, and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs. The application deadline is Dec. 15.
With the Bay of Bengal in sight, they’re retyping 18th-century letters from the Adams family, which begot two American presidents. And they’re keying in diary entries written almost 400 years ago by John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For both Harvard and the historical society, the joint digitization project is the first large-scale venture of its kind.
As political and social repression of blacks raged across the Jim Crow South of the early 1900s, black merchants and entrepreneurs quietly prospered in business, cracking the door to future civil rights.
Questions surrounding North Korea and its nascent nuclear weapons program took center stage Monday night (Oct. 30) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Just hours before the North Koreans announced they would return to the six-party talks, a panel of defense experts and analysts discussed the range of policy options available to the United States.
Laurie Glimcher remembers going into her father’s laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as a child, seeing beakers full of liquids being stirred automatically, and wondering not just what was in them, but what her father would learn from them.
The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced the appointment of Helen Molesworth as its new curator of contemporary art, effective Feb. 5, 2007. Molesworth becomes the first full curator of contemporary art since HUAM established the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art in 1997.
Free flu shots are now available for high-risk adults every Monday and Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m. at Harvard University Health Services at Holyoke Center.
Starting in the second century B.C., the 4,000-mile Silk Road was a shifting network of trans-Eurasian trails and oases. For 1,500 years, it linked what is now China in the East to the Mediterranean in the West. The Silk Road – named in the 19th century – was a commercial highway but also a highway of ideas, technology, and language. And through commerce, it disseminated the products of culture: music, instruments, statuary, ceramics, and jewelry.
The John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School announced Oct. 17 a $1.25 million gift from the George Family Foundation that will provide 15 fellowships to students pursuing concurrent degrees at the Schools. The gift will also expand the Kennedy School’s leadership development programs.
Despite the 13th Amendment and the United Nations’ prohibition of slavery in 1949, millions of people continue to work under forced conditions. To help broadcast their plight to a wider audience and promote awareness of the crisis, Zoe Trodd and the group Free the Slaves have helped the slaves themselves speak out loud and clear.
A drug being tested now may kick off a new heart health revolution by raising levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol, in the body, much as statins used today lower LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, according to a prominent cardiologist at one of the nation’s top heart hospitals.
The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has announced its 2006-07 class of postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and visiting fellows. Each year, a small but distinguished group of scholars are named to spend an academic year at the center revising their dissertation manuscripts for publication (postdoctoral fellows) or giving seminars and consulting with other researchers on campus (visiting scholars and visiting fellows).
A former Israeli air force pilot and a former Palestinian guerilla brought a message of peace to the John F. Kennedy School of Government Tuesday (Oct. 24), saying both sides must abandon violence if the conflict is to be resolved.
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