A team of researchers from Harvard, Columbia, and Rutgers universities has found the seat of fear. Its located in a pea-sized area deep in the brain of all mammals, from gerbils, to lions, to humans. And its involved in both inborn fear and the dread we acquire from dealing with people and things that hurt us.
Porter named Dana-Farber executive vice president, COOJanet Elaine Porter, an associate dean at the University of North Carolina’s School of Public Health, has been named executive vice president and chief…
Harvard football captured an unprecedented fifth-straight victory over the Yale Bulldogs, 30-24, in the Ivy Leagues first-ever triple overtime game in the 122nd edition of the storied rivalry on Nov. 19 in New Haven, Conn. Tied 24-24 after regulation, the Crimson forced three Eli turnovers in the extra periods (while committing two of their own), before junior running back Clifton Dawson broke the standstill with a 2-yard score.
Nominations are sought for Scholars at Risk fellowsThe Scholars at Risk program connects Harvard to a national network that defends the human rights of scholars worldwide. Each year, the program…
Two months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, exposing appalling poverty, neglect, and lack of preparedness, a panel of experts from various fields met to discuss what can be learned from the storm and its disastrous aftermath and how those lessons can help mitigate future catastrophes. The Nov. 29 event was sponsored by the Humanities Center.
Nieman Fellowships in global health reporting have been established at Harvard University as a joint initiative of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Harvard School of Public Health, supported by a three-year, $1.19 million grant to Harvard from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have been awarded a $30 million five-year grant to study the long-term effects on children of antiretroviral (ART) drugs that were administered to their pregnant mothers in an effort to prevent mother-to-infant transmission of HIV.
The nations oldest law school is expanding into cutting-edge legal territory with todays launch of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. The new Harvard Law School (HLS) program is the result of extensive academic planning and a $10 million gift from the Caroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and HLS graduate Joseph H. Flom.
William Kelly, a 2005 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who is pursuing a masters degree in public policy at the Kennedy School, is Harvards only Rhodes Scholar this year.
Director of the Loeb Drama Center Robert J. Orchard recently announced that competition for the 2005 Phyllis Anderson Prize in playwriting is now open. Both undergraduate and graduate students who have been enrolled in Harvard between Jan. 30 and Dec. 21, 2005 are eligible to submit manuscripts. The winner of the prize – to be determined by a panel of theater professionals – will earn a cash award of $500. The winning playwright will be announced March 1, 2006.
Faith Vilas hand was still smarting from the soldering iron burn she got fixing an astronomical instrument when the astronomer she was working with sat her down to talk about her future.
Evelynn Hammonds, appointed in July as Harvards first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, described her mission and agenda in featured remarks at a Nov. 18 meeting of the Kennedy School of Governments Womens Leadership Board.
Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the Nov. 22 FAS Faculty Meeting. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the Faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the Dean and Faculty Council. The Dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.
Representatives from 45 different institutions of higher learning from across the United States, including Puerto Rico, gathered at Harvards Science Center Nov. 18-19 to focus on the vexing question of how to attract and retain a more diverse pool of students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Haruki Murakami may not be a household word in the United States, but his name triggered enough interest, at least in the Cambridge area, to overwhelm the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies when it agreed to co-host a public appearance by the writer.
The writer of fiction may alter and distort reality in any way he or she pleases, as long as the result possesses a consistency that allows readers to suspend their disbelief and accept the imaginative world the writer has created.
Marshall Katlers torso is a necessary burden, even if he drops it on the way to the elevator and has to drag it hurriedly along Huntington Avenue. He doesnt complain, though. He quickly makes his way to the Farragut School in Roxbury, where 24 fifth-graders await Katlers – and his torsos – arrival.
Those expecting a heated debate between Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz at the Kennedy School of Government Tuesday night (Nov. 29) were not disappointed as the two venerable Cambridge professors faced off in an event titled Israel and Palestine After Disengagement: Where Do We Go From Here?
Scientific American has recognized 50 innovative organizations and individuals for their wide-ranging scientific and technological contributions. Included in this prestigious list, featured in the December issue of Scientific American (available Nov. 22), are four Harvard professors.
Synergy was the word bouncing around the three refurbished floors of the new research space for the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at its recent open house. And an appropriate word it is for a building that will house lively projects on distinct yet related areas ranging from Languages of Africas Islamic Regions to the African Hiphop Research Project.
“Are we a nation in which violence is out of control and will plague us and will interfere with our freedom?” asks Felton Earls, professor of social medicine at Harvard…
At its fifth meeting of the year on Nov. 16, the Faculty Council received a report of its Allston Subcommittee on their visit to the Harvard in Allston exhibit room, held further discussion of the report of the Committee on General Education, and voted to approve the Harvard Summer School Courses of Instruction for 2006.
Nov. 4, 1949 – On the eve of the Princeton football game, Harvard has its first riot in more than a decade. Fueled by a Harvard pep rally, visiting Princetonians,…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
For the third year in a row, close to 4,000 students have applied for admission to Harvard under its nonbinding Early Action program. This number is in stark contrast to the fall of 2002, when early application numbers soared to over 7,600. At that time, Harvard followed a now-modified requirement of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors that allowed students to apply simultaneously to an unlimited number of Early Action colleges, as well as to one binding Early Decision school. Eventually, in response to what admissions officials considered widespread confusion for college aspirants, Harvard three years ago returned to its long-standing policy of single-choice Early Action, requiring its early candidates to forgo early applications elsewhere.
This is the second in a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities that Harvard affiliates can support through this months Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign.
To climb the seven highest peaks on each of the seven continents is a formidable aspiration. To reach the seven summits in a record-setting 198 days, while raising $5 million for pediatric oncology research is the goal of a group of Harvard graduate school students, the Mountains for Miracles team.
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