I Bernard I.B. Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University and a pioneer in the field of the history of science, died of a bone marrow disorder June 20 at his home in Waltham. He was 89. A renowned scholar of Sir Isaac Newton, Cohen produced Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, the first English translation of Newtons Principia since 1729.
Charles Lieber, a pioneer in the minute world of nanotechnology, has won a world-size award. The Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry was presented with the 2003 World Technology Award for Materials on June 25 in San Francisco.
Richard Newman, a scholar of black studies and a civil rights activist who was senior research officer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, died July 7 of a brain tumor. He was 73.
The Earths ancient oceans were very different from todays, with oxygen-starved depths beneath oxygenated surface waters, Harvard researchers found in a study that provides clues about the Earths environment 1.5 billion years ago.
Twenty-one objects from the permanent collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum are now part of a unique online exhibition about Germanys Bauhaus school of art. The interactive exhibition – Extra Ordinary Every Day: The Bauhaus at the Busch-Reisinger – can be viewed at www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sites/eoed through 2005.
Harvard announced in June that it will embark on a major new collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR), and several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, intended to bring the power of genomics to bear on the understanding of disease and to accelerate the search for cures.
George McClelland Whitesides, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has been named a winner of the 2003 Kyoto Prize. Presented by the Inamori Foundation of Japan, the award is given to people who have contributed significantly to mankinds betterment in the categories of Advanced Technology, Basic Science, and Arts and Philosophy. Whitesides won in the first category. Eugene Newman Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, won in basic science, and Bunraku Puppet Master Tamao Yoshida took the arts prize.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers gave this years 50th annual Blackfan lecture at Harvard-affiliated Childrens Hospital in Boston. The talk, delivered to a packed Enders Auditorium at the hospital, focused primarily on the economics of health care.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a pair of decisions on affirmative action programs at the University of Michigan that, despite different rulings, support the admissions policies of Harvard and other colleges and universities that use race as one of many factors in creating a diverse college class.
In an industry long associated with the old-fashioned corner store, the pharmacy at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) only recently stepped into the 21st century. Actually, with HUHS’ latest modernization…
Kicking off the most ambitious fundraising drive in the history of legal education, Harvard Law School (HLS) leaders gathered last month to launch Setting the Standard: The Harvard Law School Campaign. At a formal kickoff luncheon, the campaigns chairman, Finn M.W. Caspersen, announced that $170.1 million in commitments have already been secured toward a $400 million goal. These initial gifts total more than the entire $150 million goal of the Law Schools previous record-setting campaign.
Some variation on the headline Asthma Rates on the Rise has been appearing in newspapers all over the United States for so long and with such frequency that many readers brains just flatline when they see it yet again. But if you take the time to check the statistics, they are indeed startling.
Cross-dressing in the theater has a long and fascinating history, going back at least to the ancient Greeks. This summer, the Harvard Theatre Collection is presenting an exhibition that brings this history to life through rare playbills, posters, and photographs. The exhibition is open to the public in the Edward Sheldon Exhibition Rooms in Pusey Library.
Five high school science teachers peered into microscopes at the Science Center Friday (July 11) while others who had crowded into the small microscopy lab looked over their shoulders or at the computer screens nearby displaying images of stained skin cells.
A world of activity takes place around the fountain in front of the Science Center. The view is from the inside, as seen through a half-shaded and half-clear window.
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have demonstrated that focused ultrasound, a novel, nonsurgical approach to the treatment of uterine fibroids, appears to be safe. The advent of this treatment, which can be performed as a day procedure, presents a dramatic alternative to current invasive methods such as hysterectomy, the most common cure for fibroids. The study findings are outlined in the July issue of The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Its not enough for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure that foods are safe the agency should also require food producers to inform consumers about the health benefits of their products, said FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan at a conference titled Changing the American Diet: Imperatives and Opportunities, co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health and the research firm TIAX LLC.
When botanist Rebecca Pradhan returns to her native country of Bhutan this month, she will put her Harvard fellowship to good use. Pradhan is committed to preserving one of Earths last remaining sanctuaries with pristine biodiversity – the forests of Bhutan.
The University and the square have a special feel this time of year. Theres the usual bustle of activity, but its a sultry, slow sort of busyness, slow enough for the student, resident, or tourist to stop and smell the flowers, look at the postcards, or listen to the street musician play Summertime.
Few of us work or learn completely alone. And almost all of us who work in groups – offices, project teams, committees, classrooms – could do it better. Harvard Graduate…
Cambridge Fire Department responds to a fire that ignited on the tarmac in the construction area on Kirkland Street behind the Design Schools Gund Hall. The firefighters managed to extinguish the fire without incident.
You know his music even if you dont know his name – the sprightly Sleighride, inescapable at Christmastime The Syncopated Clock, heard for 25 years as the theme of New Yorks Late Show The Typewriter, featuring a solo instrument more common in the office than the concert hall the million-selling Blue Tango Jazz Pizzicato A Trumpeters Lullaby, and many more.
The incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), or kidney failure, has doubled over the past decade in the United States. Now researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have published a study that links abnormal cholesterol levels with the development of kidney problems, raising the possibility of preventing the onset of chronic kidney dysfunction by controlling a persons cholesterol levels.
King, the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Divinity School, is the author of a new book, “What Is Gnosticism?” (Harvard University Press, 2003), which offers a provocative look at Christianity during its formative centuries and the heterogeneous array of groups, doctrines, and beliefs that all claimed to be inspired in some way by Jesus.
Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) selects a number of distinguished scholars and professionals, many from Latin America, to spend a minimum of one semester at Harvard. While in residence, visiting scholars and fellows spend time working on their own research and writing projects, making use of the Universitys extensive library resources, participating in the centers conferences and seminars, and interacting with faculty and students. Many of the DRCLAS Visiting Scholars and Fellows are supported by endowed fellowships named in honor of the donor. In April 2003, the executive committee of the center selected visiting scholars for the 2003-04 academic year from a pool of more than 80 applicants.
Kidney disease, thought to be unstoppable in many people with type 1 diabetes, has been reversed with the help of nature, early detection, and tight blood sugar control.
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