Radcliffe crew captures Allen-DeWolfe Trophy In its final dual of the season, Radcliffe heavyweight crew bettered BU and MIT on the Charles to retain the Allen-DeWolfe Trophy. The Black and…
Bustling Harvard Square will resemble one giant stage for three days beginning May 5 during the annual Arts First Performance Fair. Sponsored by Harvard Office for the Arts (OfA), the annual fair celebrates students and faculty in the arts through more than 225 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events – most of them free of charge. This year will feature South African gumboot dancing, a Japanese tea ceremony, and a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan, among others.
Comic book fans looking for a good-hearted Green Goblin may want to consider the humble, the tiny, but the very powerful microbe. While lacking the menacing laugh and standard suite of pyrotechnic gadgets, these ubiquitous life forms (1 gram of soil holds more of them than there are human beings) are set to play the hero in an ecological and technological adventure. Already exploited for their ability to eat away at oil spills, the clever bacteria have garnered a team of Harvard entrepreneurs first place in the $125,000 Ignite Clean Energy business plan competition for its proposal to use microbes to clean out the gunk that forms inside water pipes that conduct heat, and in the process, dramatically increase energy efficiency.
Sun, skills, and sprawl are the three factors that largely determine regional growth patterns, Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser told local, state, and federal officials on April 27 at a conference organized by the Kennedy Schools Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
CollegeCorps, a nonprofit organization founded by Hani N. Elias 05 and Adam Kalamchi 05, recently announced that 14 Boston-area undergraduates have been selected to participate in the CollegeCorps Intern program. These students, who will be traveling to Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, South Africa, or Uganda, represent the second class of interns under the new initiative, endorsed by the United Nations Development Program and supported by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the United Nations, and the New England Regional Peace Corps office.
Authors of a controversial paper calling for the death of modern environmentalism to make way for a movement better able to handle the dramatic, global problems facing the world defended their ideas Tuesday (May 3) in an event at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
While waiting to take a tour, 8-year-old Brian Mareau of Salem, N.H., peers out the door of the Harvard Museum of Natural History at the rain coming down.
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) recognized its latest group of fellows at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C., on April 10. Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, was among the group of five fellows.
While some students were taking a wild ride on the Whirly Bird and others were facing off in gladiatorial bouts, and still others rocked and bopped to the sound of Blanks, they all shared one thing: They were wet. At first, just intermittently wet, then as annual Springfest partied on, pretty darn wet, then in the middle of a set by the punk band Plan B for Type As, pretty much soaked as the heavens opened up and blessed the festivities with a deluge. Another thing all the good-sport attendees had in common: a great time. Really.
Alberto Palleroni was a pigeon-napper. At night he haunted silos and other roosting places, snatching hundreds of startled birds. Then, he and his friends would change their feathers. By carefully…
A team of Harvard researchers has developed a technique that allows the precise formation of double emulsions – droplets within droplets – that offers new ways to deliver drugs, nutrients,…
In the best-documented effort to date, researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have successfully induced adult heart-muscle cells to divide and…
Matias Zaldarriaga is peering back into time to find his roots – and the roots of everything else ever created. Zaldarriaga, named professor of astronomy in July, is an expert…
Vitamin B6 is involved in approximately 100 reactions in the body, including protein and red blood cell metabolism. The nervous and immune systems also need it to function efficiently. In…
Seventy-five trees have just been planted along North Harvard Street in an effort to improve the look and feel around Harvard property in Allston. Located at 175 to 210 North Harvard Street (in the area traditionally referred to as Barrys Corner) and at Brighton Mills Shopping Center, the trees, shrubs, and other landscape improvements are the first in a series of Harvard-funded community enhancements and programs that were announced by the city of Boston and Harvard University this past winter. Other efforts include aiding in the creation of a city of Boston career and business resource center, providing relocation assistance for Harvard commercial tenants displaced by Harvards future redevelopment, and making visual improvements to Smith Field, a neighborhood park.
After clawing their way back for a pair of impressive single-run victories against visiting Dartmouth on Sunday (May 1), the Harvard baseball team didnt fool around much when the four-game series resumed on Monday (May 2) in Hanover, N.H. Actually, the Crimson clamped down just long enough to lock up the first game of Mondays doubleheader, 10-6, and, along with it, the Red Rolfe Division title.
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has named Christl A. Donnelly of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, the recipient of its 2005 Distinguished Alum Award. Donnelly will deliver a lecture June 1 at Harvard.
Since the theaters beginnings in ancient Greece, playwrights have used the stage to explore complex ethical issues and portray disturbing current events. It is a practice that continues into the present day with works like Athol Fugards Master Harold … and the Boys and Tony Kushners Angels in America.
At its 14th meeting of the year on April 27, the Faculty Council discussed proposed changes to the Handbook for Students and the Allston Burr Senior Tutorships.
The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) will welcome author, theater critic, writer, teacher, and its founding director, Robert Brustein, for an evening of readings from his new book, “Letters to a…
The Gaesatae were a tribe of ancient Celtic warriors who went into battle stark naked, the better to impress their enemies with their fearlessness. In order to appear even more terrifying many of them spiked their hair, stiffening it with lime. Would the lime have made their hair white? Dan Meagher wanted to know. After reading through all the literary sources he could find and consulting with scholars in Harvards Celtic Department, Meagher learned that the treatment would have turned their punked-out coiffures a flamelike orange. Only after he had researched this detail to his satisfaction did he dip his brush into a bit of specially mixed pigment and paint the hair of a tiny Gaesatae figurine the appropriate shade.
A standing-room-only crowd packed Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall on Tuesday (April 26) for the premiere of Acting on Faith: Women and New Religious Activism in America, a documentary film produced by Rachel Antell M.T.S. 92, a Pluralism Project research affiliate. Diana L. Eck, director of the Pluralism Project and professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, narrates the film. The event, which included a screening, a panel discussion, and a reception, was hosted by the Pluralism Project, a research organization at Harvard dedicated to helping Americans engage with religious diversity.
Nine students from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have been selected as 2005-06 Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Honoring the legacy of Dr. Albert Schweitzer by committing to a year of service with a community agency, each Schweitzer Fellow will devote more than 200 hours of service to local communities lacking access to adequate health services.
Margaret Livingstone found herself in a small room at the Louvre museum in Paris with four self-portraits by Rembrandt. She noticed something strange. The eyes of the great 17th century…
n Moshi, Tanzania, hard-hit by AIDS, researchers are using detailed aerial photographs and global positioning system receivers to locate study subjects in a maze of houses without addresses and streets…
Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have made robust circuits from minuscule nanowires that align themselves on a chip of glass during low-temperature fabrication, creating rudimentary electronic devices that offer…
Earth Day at Harvard offered a hopeful note this year, as speakers praised the University’s efforts toward sustainability, saying they reflect similar grassroots efforts around the country that are forming…
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