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.
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.
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