Marrying fiber optics with nanotechnology, scientists at Harvard University have created silica wires that are far narrower than the wavelength of light yet can still guide a light beam with great precision. The wires, about a thousandth the width of a human hair, function with minimal signal loss even when their walls accommodate well under half the breadth of a single light pulse.
Describing Saddam Hussein as a ticking time bomb who had destabilized the Middle East and represented a serious threat to the United States, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman reiterated his support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq at a Dec. 15 live broadcast of MSNBCs Hardball from the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
Faculty task forces with representation from across the University will help shape the next phase of planning for a future campus in Allston. The four task forces are charged with discussing, and ultimately sharpening, the preliminary academic framework outlined in President Lawrence H. Summers October letter to the Harvard community.
Capping his first-ever visit to the United States with a talk at Harvard University yesterday (Dec. 10), Wen Jiabao, premier of the Peoples Republic of China, drew upon Chinas rich cultural past and current atmosphere of openness to predict a bright future of development, economic wealth, and democracy.
The 2003 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility. Please call (617) 495-0985 to request copies.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Dec. 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
An aerial view of Eliot Tower as seen from Lowell House. The Yard and its environs look all spiffed up by the regions first snow, a mighty storm that hit the East Coast well in advance of the official beginning of winter.
They packed Ticknor Lecture Room in Boylston Hall, some wearing pajamas, some snuggling beneath blankets. They drank warm milk and ate cookies. They listened to soothing music.
Scientists know that stem cells from embryos have the potential to develop into brain, bone, or any other type cell, but getting them to actually do this in a laboratory is a different thing. Now, for the first time, researchers have crossed this bridge by coaxing uncommitted stem cells to grow into sperm cells in a petri dish.
Provost Steven Hyman and Dean of Harvard College Benedict Gross have announced a task force on mental health that will include clinicians, students, and faculty. The purpose of the task force is to develop a plan to increase education about, and decrease stigma around, mental and emotional problems as well as to provide an optimum environment both for detecting and treating these problems early on.
A strong outing for Harvards seniors propelled the womens hockey team past New Hampshire, 4-0, on Tuesday night (Dec. 9) at the Bright Hockey Center. Lauren McAuliffe and Angela Ruggiero – two of the teams three seniors – posted a goal and an assist each as the No. 3 Crimson earned its seventh shutout to stay perfect on the season (11-0-0). The victory extends what was already the programs best start ever.
Linda Wanlin Zhang 06, winner of this years Tazuko Ajiro Monane Award, views Japanese books and artwork inside the Houghton Librarys Yenching Library Exhibition, which celebrates the 75th year of the Harvard-Yenching Library and highlights its special collections. The Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize is awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. This monetary award is sponsored by the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Memorial Fund, and is hosted by the Japanese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
More than half of the weekends 23 inches of snow had fallen, and, with the wind launching most of it at me, I climbed over a knee-high drift to free myself from the shin-high swell blanketing the sidewalk. Walking on the street allowed for some speed, and the circumstances demanded speed. It was close to 8 oclock on Saturday night, the seasons first storm was trapping people indoors, and my notebook, filled with two days worth of quotes, notes, and observations, was still at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge where the Nieman Conference on narrative journalism was taking place all weekend – and I wasnt.
Moderator Roderick MacFarquhar, Anthony Saich, Regina Abrami, and Alastair Iain Johnston participated in the faculty panel on China that preceded yesterday’s (Dec. 10) visit of China’s Premier Wen Jiabao.
Chants of China lie! People die! and Hands off Taiwan! echoed across Western Avenue in Allston Wednesday (Dec. 10) as about 85 demonstrators sent a message to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to improve human rights, stop sabre-rattling over Taiwan, and get out of Tibet.
Premier Wen Jiabaos visit to Harvard lasted just a few hours, but preparations for the occasion spanned nearly a month. Wens Harvard hosts – the Office of the President, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research – worked alongside hundreds of faculty, staff, and volunteers from around the University to plan and execute the visit. The University Marshals office managed protocol Transportation Services shuttled audience members across the river to the Business School campus the Harvard University Police Department coordinated the security forces of the U.S. and Chinese governments as well as the Boston Police the Harvard News Office corralled the 70-some members of the media expected to attend the event and Harvard Business School (HBS) opened its campus and facilities while ensuring the event didnt interfere with its students final exams.
Oppression, according to Augusto Boal, is when one person is dominated by the monologue of another and has no chance to reply. Boals life is devoted to giving those who are in this one-down position the tools with which to express themselves and discover a way out of their powerlessness.
Invoking the Great Creator to guide them, Native Americans and researchers examining Native American challenges convened their first-ever Harvard-wide symposium Thursday (Dec. 4), joining forces to improve Native American lives.
On a chilly Wednesday evening in November, Cabot Houses dining hall glows bright across the quiet Radcliffe Quad. Inside, an otherwise ordinary midweek meal sparkles with flowers, banners, flashbulbs, and Latin music. At the center of the hubbub, surrounded by students who clamor for hugs, Maria Guerrero, who has worked for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) at the Quad for three years, sits in near silence, alternately – sometimes simultaneously – grinning widely and weeping freely.
More than Saddam Hussein, more than Osama bin Laden, Mao Zedong used to terrify people in the West. Absolute leader (or so we thought) of a billion Chinese dressed in identical drab uniforms brandishing their ubiquitous Little Red Books, Mao seemed to embody an implacable anti-individualistic force bent on destroying all that the West stood for and cherished.
Soaring health care and other fringe benefit costs have prompted the Harvard Corporation to take a second look at next years financial picture and add an extra $16 million in endowment funds to 2004-2005 budgets across the University.
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is preparing for major renovations in 2004 and will be closed to all users from Jan. 19 through Feb. 9, as part of that process.
Theres good news on the research front for those who want to shed some pounds and get in shape this holiday season. A new study by Joslin Diabetes Center researchers shows that obese adults who lost just 7 percent of their weight – or 16 pounds in a 220-pound, 5-foot-5-inch woman – and did moderate-intensity physical exercise for six months improved their major blood vessel function by approximately 80 percent, regardless of whether or not they had type 2 diabetes.
In a show of community partnership, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers stood shoulder-to-shoulder and shovel-to-shovel with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and community, city, and state leaders Thursday (Dec. 4) to break ground for 50 future units of affordable housing in Allston. The Brian J. Honan Apartments, named to honor the late city councilor from Allston-Brighton who died in 2002, will comprise nine buildings on a site once occupied by Legal Seafoods fish processing plant.
The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) has announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars, as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship program for outstanding new Ph.D.s in economics, political science, and sociology who wish to advance their understanding of health policy research.
Scientists know that stem cells from embryos have the potential to develop into brain, bone, or any other type cell, but getting them to actually do this in a laboratory is a different thing. Now, for the first time, researchers have crossed this bridge by coaxing uncommitted stem cells to grow into sperm cells in a petri dish.
Giovanni Fazio, a senior physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, directed the design and construction of a camera that is looking beyond the visible universe to see planets, stars,…
Featured series 
