From graceful ballerinas to clumsy-looking birds, everyone occasionally loses their footing. New Harvard University research suggests that it could literally be the spring, or damper, in your step that helps…
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.
Oct. 7, 1944 – The “Harvard Alumni Bulletin” tally of Harvard men known to have served in World War II reaches 23,400. Oct. 21, 1949 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal…
Memorial celebration for Omeljan Pritsak announced A memorial service of the life and career of Professor Omeljan Pritsak will be held Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. in Appleton Chapel, Memorial…
Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 24 and Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30…
Folkman to deliver Eva Neer Memorial Lecture M. Judah Folkman, professor at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, will deliver the annual Eva Neer Memorial Lecture at the M.D.-Ph.D.…
Galebach paces Crimson effort at New England Champs Senior cross country runner Tim Galebach placed third in the varsity race at the New England Championships Oct. 7 at Franklin Park…
A howling electric guitar echoed off the stately, wood-paneled walls of the Barker Center’s Thompson Room last week as London School of Economics (LSE) professor Paul Gilroy wrapped up the W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures with an exploration of African-American identity and culture as seen through the life and influential music of Jimi Hendrix.
Joseph Harrington, professor of environmental health engineering in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, passed away Oct. 9. He was 69 years old.
A three-year campaign to finance a new scholarship for a student from an underrepresented background in the name of Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans has raised four times its $250,000 target and is already helping three Harvard College students.
Oct. 6, 1862 – The Overseers confirm the Rev. Thomas Hill, Class of 1843, AM 1846, as Harvard’s 20th President. His brief tenure brings higher admissions standards, a series of…
Memorial celebration for Omeljan Pritsak announced A memorial service of the life and career of Professor Omeljan Pritsak will be held Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. in Appleton Chapel, Memorial…
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on Poetry have from the beginning taken a broad definition of “poetry.” Those appointed to deliver them have included musicians – Igor Stravinsky and John Cage, for example – and visual artists such as Frank Stella, as well as poets in the more usual sense, such as T.S. Eliot.
Kenneth Olden, former head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), has been appointed to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) as a Yerby Visiting Professor in Environmental Health. Olden is a nationally recognized figure in the field of environmental health, having led NIEHS from 1991 to 2005. During that period, he also headed the National Toxicology Program based in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
A University of California, Berkeley, professor questioned the widespread opposition to paying women for the eggs needed to conduct embryonic stem cell research Tuesday (Oct. 3) and said there are many unanswered questions such research raises for society.
Dean Jamison, an economist internationally renowned for his research on how the field of economics impacts social welfare and global health, has been appointed the T&G Angelopoulos Visiting Professor of Public Health and International Development at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Jamison is also a professor of development economics at the University of California, San Francisco, and an adjunct professor at both the Peking University Guanghua School of Management and at the University of Queensland School of Population Health (Australia).
Brazelton’s work is recognized Thomas Berry Brazelton, clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School, was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy…
Behind-the-scenes front and center at the Peabody In recognition of archaeology month at the Peabody Museum, the Divinity Avenue museum will open one of its laboratories to the public for…
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government recently announced its group of fellows for the 2006-07 academic year. The Carr Center’s Fellows Program brings together a diverse group of human rights practitioners, scholars, and activists to conduct research on human rights policy, contribute to the center’s programs, and participate in broader dialogue with students, faculty, and researchers throughout the Harvard community.
Faced with upcoming revision of Norway’s law regarding the application of biotechnology in medicine, a group of 10 members of Norway’s parliament came to Cambridge Sept. 27 to spend a day with Harvard stem cell scientists, University administrators, and those involved in the shaping of state and federal stem cell legislation – all to better understand the scientific, legal, ethical, and legislative thicket that is the U.S. stem cell debate.
The last day to register online for the upcoming “Leonard Bernstein: Boston to Broadway” symposia is Oct. 10. Running Oct. 12-14, the conference will include talks and performances showcasing the multifaceted career and extraordinary legacy of one of the most illustrious music artists of the 20th century. The cost to register is $100, which includes access to symposia, exhibits, “Boston’s Bernstein” concert on Oct. 12 (Paine Hall, 8 p.m.), and the “Celebrating Bernstein” concert on Oct. 14 (Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m.).
The never-before-seen, the never-before-heard, the never-before-endured mini-opera “Inertia Makes the World Go Around” will be the centerpiece of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The event, which takes place on Oct. 5 at Sanders Theatre, honors original scientific research from around the globe that distinguishes itself through … well, that achieves a certain … well … that is recognized eventually by the Ig Nobel awards. Or as one scribe put it, research will be honored for achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.
Nobody has counted them, but the best estimates put the number of human brain cells in the trillions. The best known among them, called neurons, do the heavy thinking and…
A research team led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced Sept. 28 the development of a new kind of genetic “road map” that can connect…
Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Harvard University Faculty of Medicine, who for more than nine years has fostered collaboration, interdisciplinary research, diversity, and the highest standards in research, has announced that he will step down from his position in July 2007.
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