For a long time, scientists have wondered why blacks seldom get skin cancer or macular degeneration, the major cause of blindness in elderly white people. Experiments at the Childrens Hospital in Boston have yielded one possible answer – the black pigment called melanin apparently protects them in a peculiar way.
Nima Arkani-Hamed is searching exotic places for clues to questions about our universes construction and the gravitational glue that holds it together.
A largely unheralded meeting is under way in Europe that some say is akin to a constitutional convention for a slowly emerging supernation but that experts at a Harvard conference Friday (Jan. 31) said is unlikely to produce startling changes in the European Union.
To true believers, the opening round of this past Monday’s (Feb. 3) Beanpot tournament at the FleetCenter started auspiciously for the Harvard men’s hockey team.
It sounds like an Alice in Wonderland tale. Children intoxicated by mercury shake and grab themselves like Mad Hatters in a mountain settlement known as the place that no one can find.
Jan. 9, 1961 – U.S. President-elect John F. Kennedy ’40 visits Cambridge for a meeting of the Board of Overseers, attracting a huge swarm of well-wishers and news media in…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Jan. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and author of a new book that views postwar American history through the lens of consumerism, is laughing at herself. Asked to suggest a local shopping mall for a photo shoot, shes stumped. I hardly ever go to the mall, she admits.
The realm where science blends into art lies in a back room of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, on a small sheet of paper under Laszlo Meszolys hand.
Ernst Kitzinger, the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Emeritus, an art historian specializing in Byzantine, early Christian, and early medieval art, died of a stroke Jan. 22 at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 90 years old.
The Harvard fencing team traveled to Chestnut Hill this past Saturday (Jan. 25) where the Crimson went undefeated in Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) competition against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Tufts, Brown, Smith College, and host Boston College.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Jane Fonda have decided to scale back plans announced in 2001 to create a new center on gender and education. The HGSE will, however, continue to collaborate with Fonda on research and curricular programs relating to gender in the classroom.
A proposal co-written by a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government establishes the framework for the sale of low-cost generic HIV drugs in developing nations. The proposal is outlined in an article published in the Jan. 25 edition of The Lancet, and is co-authored by Amir Attaran, research fellow at the Kennedy Schools Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Henk den Besten, director of the International Dispensary Association (IDA) and Michael A. Friedman, vice president of Pharmacia Corp.
An award-winning political satirist, a television news anchor, and a chief congressional correspondent are among the new fellows this semester at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.
U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy continued his attack on President Bushs Iraq and domestic policies Friday (Jan. 24), calling the looming Iraq conflict the wrong war at the wrong time and assailing policies on education, health care, taxes, and affirmative action during a speech at the Kennedy School of Government.
As the nation remembered the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. last weekend, Harvards Civil Rights Project (CRP) released a report on Americas increasingly segregated schools that blew a chilling wind on the optimism of Kings I have a dream speech.
The Boston Theological Institute will convene at the Brattle Theatre on Feb. 7 and 8 for the third annual Boston Faith and Film Festival. Sponsored by the institute, which counts the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) among its members, this years festival will screen films that stimulate discussion about the nature of holiness and saintliness. Among the films to be screened are Carl Theodor Dreyers La Passion de Jeanne d Arc, Spike Lees Malcolm X, and last years blockbuster Amelie.
Musician Larry Flint and the Rev. Dorothy Austin join others in song as approximately 450 friends, co-workers, and fans attended a memorial service for Brian Sinclair 62, longtime Harvard employee and co-host of the WHRB country music radio show Hillbilly at Harvard, on Friday (Jan. 24) at the Memorial Church. Friends, including Hillbilly co-host Lynn Joiner 63, former Hillbilly host Dave Schmalz 63, and Office of Human Resources co-worker Joanne Klys 84 remembered Sinc, as he was known to almost everyone, with stories both poignant and funny. Local country musician John Lincoln Wright and his band performed Not a Day Goes By, a song Wright wrote for Sinclair.
It took two years of negotiations after decades of steadily rising tensions for the Idaho Nez Perce Tribe and a coalition of 23 local non-Indian government groups to agree to sit down and talk to resolve their disputes.
Poster day registration Faculty and students of the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) are invited to participate in the 17th annual Poster and Exhibit Day, to be held March…
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that both long and short sleep durations may be independently associated with an increased risk of heart disease in women. These findings are published in the Jan. 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Many Americans view government regulations as complicated edicts handed down by distant bureaucrats. But what if ordinary citizens from across the country could monitor rulemaking in Washington, D.C., and participate actively in the process of making new government regulations – all without ever leaving their offices or homes? Information technology may hold the answer.
Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of health problems that includes high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, high blood sugar, and obesity, is a common condition that medical experts believe is caused by a combination of genes, lack of physical activity, and overeating. Now researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have shown that even people with these risk factors may benefit by having their C-reactive protein (CRP) levels checked.
Cardosa Abubaca of FMO steers three empty carts as he passes the Aiken-IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, a primitive computer inside the Science Center.
At the Kennedy School of Governments ARCO Forum Monday night (Jan. 27), syndicated columnist and political turncoat Arianna Huffington gave an opening nod to her former Comedy Central and Politically Incorrect sparring partner, Shorenstein Fellow Al Franken 75. During the 1996 presidential campaign, she was the conservative voice of their point-counterpoint segment Strange Bedfellows, and, she said, sex [with Franken] was so good that I become a liberal.
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