A new way to make colder atoms of antimatter has been found. It could help bring scientists closer to understanding why we, and everything else, are made out of matter instead of antimatter.
If you were paid more money, would you produce more creative work? If that report languishing on your desk for months were suddenly due by the end of the week,…
Asian men show less dissatisfaction with their bodies than males in the United States and Europe, according to a Harvard study. This may explain why anabolic steroid abuse is much…
A group of climate researchers has shown that a warming globe over the next 50 years could result in fewer appearances of summer’s cleansing winds over the Northeast and Midwest…
An energy-efficiency program in Harvard-managed buildings has University real estate managers smiling at savings of more than $700,000 annually. Larry McNeil, senior facilities engineer with Harvard Real Estate Services’ University…
Some years ago, a student who had graduated with excellent grades from one of the traditional black colleges applied for admission to Harvard Medical School (HMS). Alvin Poussaint, faculty associate dean of student affairs, urged the admissions committee to accept him, but many were skeptical.
Ernst Mayr, the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who has been called “the Darwin of the 20th century,” died yesterday morning (Feb. 3) at a retirement community in Bedford, Mass. A member of the Harvard faculty for more than half a century, he was 100.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers has announced the establishment of two University-wide task forces to develop concrete proposals to reduce barriers to the advancement of women faculty at Harvard and in academic careers more broadly.
A record total of 22,717 students have applied for entrance next September to Harvard College. This unprecedented applicant pool is due in large measure to the new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) announced by President Lawrence H. Summers last February in his keynote address to the American Council on Education, said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid. The new program sends a strong message that Harvard is accessible to all students, regardless of family financial resources, he said.
President Lawrence H. Summers announced Wednesday (Feb. 2) the appointment of Alan A. Altshuler, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning in the Harvard Graduate School of…
A team of researchers has solved the riddle of one of the plant kingdoms fastest and most ferocious movements: the blink-of-an-eye closing of the Venus flytrap.
Robert M. Johnson, an employee of the University for 35 years, died on Dec. 18, 2004, in Sandwich, Mass. Johnson was 83. Johnson, who retired in 1979, worked at Harvard for buildings and grounds. He was a World War II veteran and a VFW commander.
The Honorable Joyce London Alexander delivers the keynote address at a Memorial Church service to celebrate the life and message of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 31. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
On Jan. 26 at approximately 11:50 p.m., a male undergraduate student reported that he was the victim of an armed robbery while walking on Chauncy Street near Massachusetts Avenue. The victim stated that he was approached by three males who robbed him of his wallet, cell phone, and watch. During the robbery the victim was struck on the arm with a blunt metal object but was not physically harmed. The offenders then fled the area in a green sports utility vehicle.
As part of a nationwide candlelight vigil for victims of the tsunami, the University community is invited to gather in Copley Square on Feb. 4 from 7 to 8 p.m. Representatives from various aid organizations will discuss progress in relief efforts and speak about short- and long-term needs. At 7:45 p.m., the mayor of Cambridge, Michael A. Sullivan, will lead a moment of silence in memory of those who have died, in support of the survivors, and in gratitude to the relief workers.
An Allston community meeting Jan. 20 gave Harvards Allston neighbors a chance to voice opinions on the areas future, touching on everything from access to open space to traffic congestion to the location of utilities.
The University Committee on Human Rights Studies (UCHRS) has announced the details of its 2005 summer internship program for undergraduates. Up to 10 summer internships will be available to qualified students seeking to work for eight to 10 weeks in a human rights organization in the United States or abroad.
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently named Ross L. Prentice of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Public Health Sciences, the 2005 recipient of its Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Prentice will deliver a lecture on June 3 at the School and be presented with a citation and an honorarium.
Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson believes hes solved twin centuries-old mysteries of Caribbean island ant plagues that devastated local agriculture.
Following the record snowfall that befell Boston last month, its hard to imagine (though not for a lack of trying) that spring will ever arrive. Thankfully, with Harvards annual Daffodil Days fundraiser now under way, the art of seasonal visualization becomes a whole lot easier.
If you want to become a great flutist, Sir James Galway has some advice for you: learn to sing and dance. At a master class on Jan. 5, he told Harvard students Music has a movement associated with it that is like the feeling of dance. When you play, you have to make peoples hearts dance.
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced that the 2005 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will be given to the FedEx-Environmental Defense Future Vehicle Project.
Dramatic gains for American Indians Identified for decades as the poorest group in the United States, American Indians living on reservations made substantial gains, both economically and socially, during the…
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Associate Dean of Public Health Practice Howard K. Koh has been named the inaugural recipient of the Harvey V. Fineberg Professorship of Public Health, established to honor the former dean of the School and former Harvard provost. The appointment became effective Jan. 1.
The snow was as high as an elephants eye. Every restaurant in the Square was closed. And Harvard students were getting a bit peckish. General manager of the dining hall at Leverett House Arthur Robins worried about his charges: Four hundred kids stuck here with nothing but Ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly. Not an appetizing picture.
A spirit of teamwork from one of the nations oldest rivalries will take shape next week when the Harvard and Yale communities hold a blood drive challenge to see which University can raise the highest number of donations. The friendly contest is scheduled for Feb. 9 and Feb. 10 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and for Feb. 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Adams House (26 Plympton St.). All Harvard students, staff, alumni, neighbors, and friends are welcome to join the cause.
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