Heavy-hitting frosh lands league nod, again For the second time this season, freshman softballer Virginia Fritsch has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week. In the Crimson’s last six…
Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension Michael Shinagel received the Julius M. Nolte Award for Extraordinary Leadership at the annual conference of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) April 16 in San Antonio. Established in 1965, the Nolte Award is the most prestigious of all UCEA awards and is given to an individual in recognition of unusual and extraordinary contributions to the cause of continuing education on the regional, national, and international level.
The Harvard Stem Cell Institutes inaugural symposium kicked off in interdisciplinary fashion Friday (April 23) with discussions that explored the business, ethics, and science of stem cell research.
The Altran/Arthur D. Little Foundation for Innovation will provide $500,000 in the form of money, professional expertise, and consulting to the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) during the next five years to help support a broad-based program on innovation in science and technology.
Harvard College, striving to increase international experiences for its students, may now have one more arrow in its quiver, thanks to the student-initiated Harvard in Asia Project (HIAP). Chaired by David Yuan 06 and Silas Xu 05, HIAP returned triumphant from its first-ever exchange with Peking University, or Beida, in Beijing earlier this month. During spring break, 21 Harvard students made the 10-day trip, aimed at enhancing cross-cultural understanding between the students of the two universities – and at changing the Harvard students college experience.
Yes, self-experimentation is exactly what it sounds like. Its when a researcher uses him- or herself as the (or one of the) subjects of an experiment. A recent gathering at the School of Public Health (HSPH) looked into the practice in a discussion titled Self-Experimentation by Investigators: Panel and Case Discussion. The exchange produced a robust examination of the relationship between good ethics and rigorous science, between junior and senior investigators, and between scientists and institutional review boards (IRBs). The March 26 event, sponsored by the Schools Human Subjects Committee (HSC), drew researchers and IRB members from across Harvard, as well as from other universities and hospitals.
Within the past several years, articles in the mainstream media have sounded an alarm about a widening black gender gap. In African-American communities, women are outpacing men in professional and educational achievement, while incarceration and unemployment rates for black men far exceed those for black women. Some charge that this phenomenon is affecting marriage possibilities and family structures among blacks.
String theory – the idea that the universe is made up not of particles but of tiny vibrating strings – is in the midst of a second revolution that some physicists hope will lead to the long-sought single theory that explains how the universe functions, according to Columbia University Professor Brian Greene.
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that elevated levels of a biomarker that corresponds to a condition in which arteries do not dilate properly can be an indicator of type 2 diabetes risk in women. In addition, endothelial dysfunction – the inflammatory condition in which arteries do not dilate properly – is also an indicator of cardiovascular disease, leading researchers to believe that it could be an underlying link between the two epidemics. The findings are published in the April 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
W.E.B Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and journalist and human rights advocate Kati Marton have been honored with the ninth annual Edith Wharton Women of Achievement Awards. The awards were presented at an April 7 ceremony by Edith Wharton Restoration, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the restoration of The Mount – the authors 1902 estate and gardens in Lenox.
Robert Mann, founder and first violinist of the Julliard String Quartet and a member of the Julliard School Music Division faculty since 1946, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award.
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) has announced its support of 22 art projects and performances that will take place during Arts First weekend (May 6-9). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.
Red Sox VIP tickets, a flight with singer/songwriter and pilot Livingston Taylor, and a movie date with New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell are among the items on the auction block tonight (April 29) at Phillips Brooks House Associations Spring Auction and Raffle to benefit its Summer Urban Program, which runs 12 low-cost day camps for local children. Dean of the College Benedict Gross is master of ceremonies at the event, which includes drinks and hors doeuvres, a silent and live auction, and live music. From 5 to 8 p.m. at Phillips Brooks House in Harvard Yard, $20. For more information, go to http://www.evite.com/mannix@fas.harvard.edu/supauction.
Five Harvard students have been awarded grants by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), and another six have received grants from the Freeman-Asia Program. The Institute of International Education administers both grants.
Amid the fuss over Democratic front-runner John Kerrys latest 10-year plan to expand health-care coverage to the tune (according to some Republicans) of $900 billion, and renewed allegations that the Bush administration has suppressed Medicare costs predictions, Harvard Business Schools Regina E. Herzlinger shrugs her shoulders, and smiles. Shes not surprised by the continued political rigmarole and shes not intimidated by this stickiest of issues. In fact, her ideas, scores of health-care professionals contend, could solve the conundrum of pricing the priceless – care for the sick.
Just before 3 oclock on a recent Thursday, Kate Johnsen wrestles with the lock on the door to the Mary Ellen McCormack Youth Center. Moments after she gets the entry to the basement room open, children steadily trickle in. The center is strewn with evidence of spirited use: Checkers are scattered on the floor, homework charts and art projects hang on walls, and toy trucks occupy corners. But the kids, who are between 8 and 10 years old and all live in the Mary Ellen McCormack Housing Development, the oldest public housing project in New England, arent darting to the toys and games. After all, they have a show to rehearse, a pair of plays that theyre debuting for the public on Harvards campus less than two weeks from the day. Theyve been on April vacation all week, but theyre still faithfully at the center during the usual after-school program schedule to get ready for the big show.
A special reception commemorating the installation of the recently rediscovered grizzly bear claw necklace at the Peabody Museum will be held May 13 – the day the artifact goes on public display – from 5 to 7 p.m. at the museum. Provost Steven E. Hyman and William Fash, Howells Director of the Peabody Museum, will host the event.
Goroff named FDD Fellow Professor of the Practice of Mathematics Daniel Goroff has been accepted as a 2004-05 Academic Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) in…
Scientists have developed a new type of DNA sequence analysis that pinpoints rapidly evolving pathogenic genes and have used the technique to identify hundreds of quickly evolving tubercular and malarial genes believed to represent key points of contact with the human immune system. The work sheds new light on the interaction of lethal organisms with the immune system, and could greatly help researchers in identifying appropriate targets for new drugs or vaccines.
In a meeting of the United Ways of New England in Boston, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers noted to an audience of 200 Boston industry leaders and executives that at a time when the United States is at its most powerful and incomes are at a historic high, there is a growing gap between this prosperity and the way many children in the country live.
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education officially opened the door to racial equality in the United States, education is still the best place to continue pushing for change, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige told a packed audience at the Kennedy School of Government Thursday (April 22).
David T. Ellwood, the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, will become the next dean of the Kennedy School, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Wednesday (April 21).
Artist Laurie Palmer spoke April 15 about her installation, The Helium Stockpile: Under Shifting Conditions of Heat and Pressure. Palmer, a Radcliffe fellow, is a conceptual artist whose work focuses on industry, the environment, history, and economics. The Helium Stockpile is inspired by an actual federally owned helium stockpile near Amarillo, Texas, containing 3.7 billion cubic feet of the lighter-than-air gas, used during the Cold War in the manufacture of nuclear bombs. Palmers interactive piece, consisting of hundreds of hinged wooden blocks, explores the contraction of a flat field into a compact mass.
April 21 & May 12, 1939 – In the New Lecture Hall (now Lowell Hall), New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses delivers the 1938-39 Godkin Lectures: “Notes on Theory…
Susan Okin service May 2 Friends and family of Susan Moller Okin, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will host a memorial service on May 2 from…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
A physics professor who has devised ingenious methods for manufacturing and observing antimatter has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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