Howard A. Frank, co-developer of the heart pacemaker and clinical professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died from complications of a stroke at his Brookline, Mass., home on June 27. He was 89.
The John Harvard Mall, a hilltop park in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, is now restored and designed to be safer for Boston residents and their children, thanks to a partnership between the city of Boston and Harvard University.
The impending retirement of 77 million baby boomers, if managed properly, can transform the nature of American society through an explosion in volunteerism that rejuvenates the societal ties that bind the nation together.
Ground was broken July 14 for the new long-term home of the Broad Institute at 7 Cambridge Center on the corner of Main and Ames streets. The institute will serve as the vital center of a relatively new collaboration intended to bring the power of genomics to bear on the understanding of disease and to accelerate the search for cures
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.
It’s like the chicken and egg question. Do we learn to think before we speak, or does language shape our thoughts? New experiments with five-month-olds favor the conclusion that thought comes first.
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Forsyth Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have successfully used tissue-engineering techniques to regenerate rat tooth crowns.
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 agriculture’s roots.
P S A are frightening letters for those diagnosed with prostate cancer, some 230,000 men every year. They stand for prostate-specific antigen, a protein the body secretes in excess when a man has the malignancy. It is used as a marker to both diagnose the disease and to detect its recurrence after surgery or radiation. Now, its rate of rise is seen as a marker of prostate-specific death.
Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin have given $5 million to support the Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program, which enables the University to make research materials from libraries across Harvard freely available over the Internet.
The international community has not succeeded very well at stopping incidents of genocide. From Armenia to Rwanda, efforts at intervention have generally been either nonexistent or too little and too late.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning June 13 and ending July 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Former Harvard hockey captain, Olympian, and NHL player Ted Donato was named head coach of the Harvard mens ice hockey team on July 2. A 1991 graduate of Harvard who captured an NCAA championship as a sophomore, Donato becomes just the sixth person to serve as Harvards head coach since 1950. The appointment is Donatos first in coaching.
Patriotic pride wasnt enough to lift the Harvard mens crew to victory this July 4 holiday, as the NCAA champion Crimson was forced to settle for second place in international competition at the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River. Coming off its second perfect collegiate season, Harvards varsity couldnt overcome a sluggish start in the Grand Challenge Cup, finishing two-thirds of a length behind the Dutch national team. Later in the day, the 2V boat fell to the Leander Club – Londons renowned rowing club – by three-quarters of a length in the Ladies Plate.
As the author of several highly respected works of architectural history, William J.R. Curtis receives many new volumes for review, a good portion of them large-format books filled with photographs and reproductions. While he is not always impressed with these tomes as works of scholarship, he does appreciate the packaging they come in, the corrugated containers, the sheets of mottled industrial cardboard, the plain brown wrappers.
Harvard Business School (HBS) Press and The Commercial Press, the oldest publishing house in China, recently announced the formation of an exclusive partnership to publish HBS Press books in the Chinese language.
In the world of academia, the spotlight shines brightly on the esteemed faculty who advance knowledge and research, on the promising students and their achievements or misbehavior, on the presidential initiatives that chart the course for the universitys proud future.
For three weeks, the 20 high school students from Hawaii and Hopi nations had studied the physiological and psychological effects of drug and alcohol addiction with some of the foremost researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
Violence, sex, and profanity increased significantly in movies between 1992 and 2003, according to a study by researchers from the Kids Risk Project at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Kimberly Thompson, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH and director of the Kids Risk Project, said, The findings demonstrate that ratings creep has occurred over the last decade and that todays movies contain significantly more violence, sex, and profanity on average than movies of the same rating a decade ago.
Cross honored for achievement in Jewish Studies In June, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture presented the 11th Annual Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in Scholarship to Frank Moore Cross, the…
Harvard graduate Chris Lambert 03 captured the U.K. Olympic Trials 200-meter dash in 20.94 seconds earlier this month in Manchester, England, to qualify for the big show in Athens. Lambert is one of six Ivy League athletes to advance to the Olympic games in track and field, including Harvard hurdler Brenda Taylor 01. At least 39 Ivy athletes in all sports have qualified for this summers games.
The lives of single mothers and their families improved in the post-welfare reform age, despite the negative impacts of the 2001-02 recession. Thats the finding in a new study authored by Wiener Center Research Fellow Scott Winship and Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy Christopher Jencks, both at the Kennedy School.
Harvard Extension School biochemistry instructor Cheryl Wojciechowski and faculty aid and A.L.M. candidate Luke McKneally are creating a kiosk display on obesity and diet for the Current Science and Technology Center at the Museum of Science, Boston. Supersized America claims that obesity may soon surpass tobacco as the leading cause of health problems facing America.
Incredibly tiny integrated circuits could have applications well beyond faster, smaller computers and cell phones with features only fantasized about today. For example, nanocircuits might make possible sensors that can…
The United States government through its Agency for International Development (USAID), Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI), and the Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation have joined hands with the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GFDRE) to support fiscal decentralization in Ethiopia. The donors and the GFDRE have collectively pledged $13.6 million to support roll-out of the highly successful Decentralization Support Activity (DSA), implemented by Harvard University, to all regions of Ethiopia, as well as the administrative zones of Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.
The Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its selection of a diverse and experienced group of individuals for resident fellowships this fall. The fellows will join the IOP beginning in mid-September, and will lead weekly, not-for-credit study groups on a range of political topics. Fellows interact with students, participate in the intellectual life of the community, and pursue individual studies or projects.
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