Harvard University’s endowment earned a 21.1 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2004, bringing the endowment’s overall value to $22.6 billion. The continued strong returns buttress the endowment’s…
A 23,000-year-old hunter-gatherers camp submerged under the Sea of Galilee for millennia has provided Harvard researchers with new information about early human diets, showing that grains were staple foods 10,000 years earlier than previously thought and shedding new light on agricultures roots.
Young adults who attended day care or nursery school when they were children were more than a third less likely to develop Hodgkin’s disease, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers.
A politically polarized nation and corporate concerns have applied increasing pressure on the nation’s major news broadcasters, top anchors told an audience at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Sunday (July 25), but they are resisting such pressures and perhaps doing their jobs better in the process.
The familiar challenge of international terrorism will be central to the next president’s foreign policy agenda, but a panel of Harvard experts said that agenda will also include restoring America’s image abroad, a renewed focus on nuclear stockpile security, and relations with emerging superpower China.
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Maha for short) studies the obvious but ignored – how do flags flutter, worms wiggle, fabrics fold. ‘There’s a certain joy in trying to discover the sublime in the mundane,’ says the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at Harvard University.
Nearly 150 area high school students participating in summer science programs gathered today (July 23) at the Longwood Medical Area for Boston’s ‘other convention.’
If ever a book-based film inspired questions of the original author, it is ‘Adaptation,’ the sideways interpretation of Susan Orlean’s 1998 nonfiction book ‘The Orchid Thief.’ Unlike most movies drawn from literature, in which the original author and often even the story itself disappear in a Hollywood haze, ‘Adaptation’ puts Orlean’s book – and Orlean herself – front and center. In its deliberate blurring of fact and fiction, the author is portrayed (by Meryl Streep) as a repressed New York intellectual-turned-drug addict and murderer.
For the second summer in a row, Youth Opportunity Boston’s talented membership has published the YO Journal. This year’s colorful issue is jampacked with photos, articles, and opinion pieces straight from the ‘hood. The topic for the fall 2004 issue is, appropriately enough, politics.
Scientists may have pinpointed a microscopic reason why people suffering from the most common type of vertigo experience a distinct time lag between a rapid head motion and the onset of dizziness. The explanation, the researchers say, could be that it takes five to six seconds for minuscule crystals in the inner ear to sediment after the head moves suddenly, an event that can set a dizzy spell in motion.
Contrary to expectations, a startling number of large variations have been found in the human genome. The genetic blueprints for humans were thought to be 99.9 percent similar, but researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto in Canada have accidentally discovered large chunks of missing or added DNA in normal, healthy people.
When it comes to people, programs, and policies in education, Mica Pollock thinks we should talk about race more. And sometimes less. But mostly, Pollock, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), believes Americans need to learn to talk about racial issues in education better than we do.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning July 18 and ending August 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is committed to assisting all members of the Harvard community in providing for their own safety and security. Harvards annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), is titled Playing It Safe, and can be found on the HUPDs Web site at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/prevention_handbook.php.
Harvards alpine ski team will be under the tutelage of a new head coach for the 2004-05 season, as former UMass standout Justin Rouleau joins the Crimson coaching staff. Rouleau replaces Lisa Smyth, who was with the team for five years.
A memorial celebration honoring the life of Philip S. Holzman will be held on Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holzman, who died on June 1, was the Esther and Sidney R. Rabb Professor of Psychology Emeritus, and professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, emeritus. A reception will follow.
Harvard Medical School (HMS) officially kicked off a new research center Monday (Aug. 23) focused on understanding and reversing the immune system dysfunction that both causes diabetes and that presents a hurdle to potential cures.
The third annual Its Movie Time at Harvard – a free outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. The event is open to the entire University community and their families.
Robert C. Orr, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), left his post this month to become assistant secretary-general of the United Nations. In his new role, Orr is the UNs top official responsible for policy and planning, and the senior-most American policy-maker. Orr, who formally assumed this position on Aug. 16, will be working directly with the secretary-general in his office.
Harvard athletes strut stuff in Athens Harvard graduate Brenda Taylor ’01 placed seventh in a field of eight in the women’s 400m hurdles on Wednesday evening (Aug. 25) in Athens.…
As 30 research subjects seethed, scientists measured blood flowing between the thinking and emotional parts of their brains. What would be the difference between people who controlled their anger pretty…
Farrar to take helm of Harvard water polo Longtime collegiate water polo coach Erik Farrar will take the reins of Harvard’s men’s and women’s programs, it was announced earlier this…
HLS chooses architect for northwest corner Harvard Law School (HLS) recently announced the selection of Robert A.M. Stern Architects as the principal design firm to prepare a planning framework for…
Researchers have found a family of molecules that play a key role in the formation of synapses, the junctions that link brain cells, called neu-rons, to each other. The molecules initiate the development of these connections, forming the circuitry of the mammalian nervous system.
At the annual Mid-Summer Celebration of the 12 day camps run by Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), a student-led non-profit at Harvard College, Wednesday evening (Aug. 4), old-fashioned summertime fun took on a distinctly urban flavor. As campers from Boston and Cambridge ran sack races, tossed rings and softballs, slurped watermelon, and smeared their faces with equal parts cotton candy, face paint, and barbecue sauce, a sound system pumped out hip-hop and the Orange Line rumbled beneath Jamaica Plain’s Stony Brook Park.
Balloons waved, jazz standards played, and Cambridge seniors danced on the steps of the Memorial Church during Wednesday’s (Aug. 4) 29th Annual Senior Picnic in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre.
The world’s first quantum network, integrated with the Internet, is now operating in the Boston area. Its developers hope that the messages it sends will be secure from hackers and eavesdroppers for as long as imagination now extends.
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have found that the content of human DNA and genes, originally thought to be very similar among all human beings, differs significantly. This unexpected finding could one day provide researchers with the insight necessary to understand how disease development differs among individuals and could eventually lead to a deeper understanding of how to proactively prevent the development of particular diseases. Study results were published in Nature Genetics online on Sunday (Aug. 1).
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