Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and vice dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School, has been appointed director of the new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.
With his trim beard and snappy straw hat, David Noard looks quite a lot like Vincent Van Gogh, the artist he portrays in his original one-man show, My Name Is Vincent.
After giving a presentation about climate change in Sever Hall, Al Gore continues the conversation with students Caitlin Watts-FitzGerald 06 (from left) and Michelle Sonia 06, and Raymond Lyman, who works in media and technology. Gore made his presentation on April 14 to students in Environmental Science and Public Policy 10.
Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Giuliana Bruno received the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award in Culture and History at a March ceremony for Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso Books, 2002).
Harvard to back walk for hunger, AIDS For the 18th consecutive year, the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs will contribute 50 cents per kilometer walked, or hour volunteered,…
Harvards Office for the Arts (OFA) and the Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have recently announced the winners of the annual undergraduate art prizes. In recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the arts, five seniors and one junior were named recipients for the 2003-04 academic year.
Water polo felled by No. 20 Brown at Northeast Champs The Harvard women’s water polo team dropped a 9-2 decision against top-ranked Brown in the title game of the Collegiate…
Nathan J. Heller 06 and Amelia E. Lester 05 have been named Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2004-05 academic year. The students will join the magazines staff for the academic year and write a regular column, The Undergraduate, as well as news stories and alumni features. They also provide general editorial assistance, and become involved in all phases of the magazines production.
According to a recently published list of rankings for fiscal year 2003, the Forsyth Institute – a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit biomedical research organization – received more in federal grant funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) than any university or other research organization in its specialty. With 40 principal investigators, the Forsyth Institute, unique among the funding recipients for being an independent research organization, was granted a total of $12,161,236 for its research in a variety of fields funded by NIDCR.
In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, five Harvard professors recently joined 67 other U.S. scientists and engineers to be elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The election, which was held April 20 during the 141st annual meeting of the academy, brings the total number of active members to 1,949.
When Harvard University Professors Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson formally debuted the new peer-reviewed journal they are co-editing, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race last month at the Organization of American Historians meeting, the reaction was not so much Why? as What took you so long?
Stem cell therapies have the potential to do for chronic diseases what antibiotics did for infectious diseases. It is going to take years of serious research to get there, but as a neurologist, I believe the prospect of a penicillin for Parkinsons is a potential breakthrough that we must pursue. As in other areas of creative endeavor in science, the answers will come only with careful experimentation.
While the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute aims to encourage scholarly examination of the ethical issues surrounding the institutes work, a Harvard committee has had a similar, but more practical, role for more than two years.
Seven Harvard schools, seven teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to use stem cells to help the 150 million people nationally living with or dying from five types of organ and tissue failure.
Seven Harvard schools, seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to explore the promising area of stem cell research.
Stem cells are the fundamental source of all the bodys tissues, the template from which bodily cells are derived. As cells die off or are damaged, the hundreds of thousands of stem cells in the human body give rise – constantly – to new tissue. Injuries as simple as the scalding of the mouth with a hot beverage and as grave as the compromising of the immune system during chemotherapy require the activity of stem cells to repair cellular damage.
The reigning league champion Harvard mens tennis team inched closer to a repeat performance this past Saturday (April 17) with a not-so-slight 7-0 shutout of visiting Penn. Still perfect in league play, the Crimson (18-6, 4-0 Ivy) – who also downed Princeton, 5-2, a day earlier – next face Brown, also 18-6, 4-0 Ivy, this Friday (April 23) in Providence in a match-up that will likely have title implications.
Edward Elwyn Jones, currently acting University organist and choirmaster, has been appointed the seventh Gund University Organist and Choirmaster. The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, announced Jones appointment at the Easter morning service.
Last Friday evenings (April 16) presentation at Harvard Divinity School by the Rev. Dr. Mel White, the former dean of the largest gay and lesbian church in the world (the Dallas Cathedral of Hope), was billed as a lecture on Religion, Homosexuality and Marriage: Why We Cant Wait. But it was really a rallying cry.
Current thinking on how most communicable respiratory infections are spread – by large droplets over short distances or by coming in contact with contaminated surfaces (face-to-face) – needs to be reconsidered, according to Donald Milton, lecturer on occupational and environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of a perspective in the April 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The perspective coincides with the report by Yu et al. in this issue on airborne transmission of SARS.
The children who inhabit the world of award-winning author, educator, and activist Jonathan Kozol 58 dont wear designer clothing, dont have parents who drive around in SUVs, and dont vacation at Disney World. They live in extreme poverty in the inner cities in places like New York and Los Angeles and often endure chronic asthma, hunger, and homelessness as a way of life. For 40 years, Kozol has worked with these poor children, their parents, preachers, teachers, and principals – and spoken out against the inequities of this countrys public school systems.
Stem cell therapies have the potential to do for chronic diseases what antibiotics did for infectious diseases. It is going to take years of serious research to get there, but as a neurologist, I believe the prospect of a penicillin for Parkinsons is a potential breakthrough that we must pursue. As in other areas of creative endeavor in science, the answers will come only with careful experimentation.
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