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Patterns of gene turn-ons and turn-offs have been tied to the presence of 22 different tumor types in studies at Harvard University. Such information could more accurately predict who gets what cancer and whether it will spread, as well as lead to new types of treatments.
This weekend (Oct. 15 – 17), Harvard Law Schools Human Rights Program (HRP) will mark its 20th anniversary with a gathering principally of alumni and a full slate of speeches and discussions. And in many ways, the celebration also honors the movement it embraces. The emergence of the international human rights movement, which dates back to the 1945 Nuremberg Trials and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has much in common with the growth of Harvards program over the past two decades.
Oct. 5, 1740 – Fresh from haranguing 15,000 on Boston Common, the dynamic revivalist George Whitefield breezes in to preach at the Cambridge meetinghouse, inspiring division within families and churches,…
Thorn memorial service set A memorial service for Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine George W. Thorn will be held Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Bornstein…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Professor of Geology Emeritus Raymond Siever passed away on Sept. 24 at the age of 81. Siever was first appointed to the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1957, serving as chair from 1968 to 1971 and again from 1976 to 1981.
Holly Sargent has been named to a new position in Alumni Affairs and Development as senior associate dean for advancement and senior director for University Womens Initiatives. In this new role, Sargent will be responsible for identifying and engaging new sources of principal gift support for new and ongoing projects related to University priorities, with a particular focus on the international community, non-Harvard individuals, and women. Dividing her time between the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and cross-University initiatives, Sargent will continue to work closely with the KSG Office of External Affairs and KSG Dean David Ellwood on major gifts and priority areas. The appointment was announced recently by Ellwood and Donella Rapier, vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development.
Dimitar Sasselov did what every high school astronomer dreams of doing he went from looking at stars with a backyard telescope to discovering a new class of planets and a new class of stars.
If Sholeh Regna had followed the path laid out for her, she would be an American-educated medical doctor practicing in Iran. But because she decided to follow her own vision, she is a sculptor, painter, and video artist practicing in Somerville.
Low-dose aspirin proven to offer inflammation protection Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues have demonstrated for the first time in humans in a randomized clinical trial that…
A Harvard delegation recently traveled to Ghana to begin building a new partnership with the University of Ghana – the latest manifestation of the growing strength of African studies at Harvard.
When friends, colleagues, and family gathered in the Memorial Church Friday (Oct. 8) to celebrate the life of Archibald Cox 34, Harvard Law School professor emeritus, they honored the memory of a great teacher, courageous public servant, legendary Watergate figure, and devoted husband and father.
Safra accepting 2005-06 fellowship applications The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics invites graduate students who are writing dissertations, or who are engaged in major research on topics in…
Last week (Oct. 7 and 8), Harvards Graduate School of Education (GSE) convened an eclectic gathering of biologists, reading specialists, neuroscientists, learning disabilities researchers, geneticists, and child psychologists for a conference looking at the links between the mind, the brain, and education. Called Usable Knowledge: Mind, Brain, and Education, the conference of invited participants aimed to create collaborations between scientists and educational researchers to help bridge the gap between brain science research and classroom needs.
Harvard University has announced a set of principles designed to ensure sustainable growth and advance Harvard’s record as a responsible environmental steward.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study honored one of its most illustrious pioneers last week (Oct. 7) when the portrait of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz was unveiled in a ceremony inside the Faculty Room at University Hall. Agassiz was one of a group of women closely linked to Harvard who, in the 1870s, designed a new institution for the education of women. In 1879, the Harvard Annex for womens instruction by Harvard faculty began operations. In 1894, the Annex was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Radcliffe College, with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz as its first president.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and President Lawrence H. Summers joined forces last Thursday (Oct. 7) to celebrate the partnership that has put Boston after-school efforts in the national arena and to recognize two exemplary Boston-area school principals who have made after-school education a vital and successful part of their schools.
Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, has published a new book titled Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. Allison, an expert on arms control and defense policy, served as assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans under President Clinton. In a recent conversation, he discussed his ideas for preventing the all-too-likely possibility of terrorists setting off a nuclear bomb in a major American city.
Asking Who am I? may launch a quest to understand ones own identity, but unless one happens to be Michel de Montaigne or Jean Jacques Rousseau, the effort is unlikely to be of much concern to anyone else.
Professor Bernard Bailyn receives Kennedy Medal The council of the Massachusetts Historical Society awarded the Kennedy Medal – given to persons who have “rendered distinguished service to the cause of…
After four full quarters of on-field surprises, the Harvard football team may have blown its single biggest secret against visiting Cornell this past Saturday (Oct. 9). Pass it on, this Crimson roster runs deeper than the stat sheets might suggest.
Far below the Pacific Oceans waves, seabed vents spew hot water, minerals, and nutrients into the cold, dark depths, opening a window to the geologic processes driving them and anchoring biological communities that scientists hope can reveal the secrets of lifes beginnings.
Twenty new fellows from five different countries have joined the Kennedy School of Governments Center for Business and Government (CBG) for the 2004-05 academic year.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, has announced the appointment of 12 new fellows for the 2004-05 academic year.
In 1970, John Misha Petkevich, a Harvard junior, was getting a routine checkup at Childrens Memorial Hospital in Brookline. After meeting some children being treated for leukemia there, Petkevich (a future Olympian) returned to Eliot House and, with the help of other students, organized a benefit skating event called An Evening With Champions.
A visiting biology professor showed that the majority of threatened species have low genetic diversity, bolstering the scientific view that genetic factors are a threat to species heading toward extinction.
A Cambridge holiday tradition since 1971, the Christmas Revels will return to Harvards Sanders Theatre beginning Dec. 10 for 18 performances of music, dance, and rituals in celebration of the winter solstice.
For Terry Hawkins, the young new principal at the Frances Perkins Elementary School in Worcester, each days work demands a multitude of skills. She juggles student discipline and achievement, teacher development and satisfaction, accountability to standardized test scores, and parent and community involvement, each layering a complex set of concerns atop the other. Challenges abound, and of course, time and money are always in short supply.
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