As the temperature plummeted, the urge to cower, cuddle, and bundle up was outweighed by the imperatives of the world, by personal demands, and, most of all, by exam period.
To the strains of a string quartet made up of Harvard students, the University, on Jan. 15, celebrated its merger with the famed Rowland Institute of Science.
Seven years ago, as Steve Dudley was making a career transition from psychotherapy and substance abuse counseling to personal fitness training, he would joke to his new clients: Its not how you feel, its how you look.
ICF honors Kanter The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a unit of the World Teleport Association that focuses on communities’ use of broadband technology for economic development, has presented its Intelligent…
On the third floor of the Biological Laboratories, Honor Hsin and Alice Bailey squint into computers, hoping that the data confirm that theyve successfully made the gene mutations they set out to make.
Imagine being able to throw away those diet books and eat whatever you want without becoming fat, and – as a bonus – not develop diabetes and live longer as well. A new study led by Joslin Diabetes Center researchers and published in the Jan. 24 issue of the journal Science brings scientists one step closer to turning this scenario – no doubt the dream of the estimated 60 million overweight American adults – into a reality.
President Lawrence H. Summers announced a new initiative Wednesday (Jan. 15) that will make a Harvard education more accessible and affordable for talented students who wish to pursue careers in public service. In a series of steps designed to ease financial burdens for students in fields that do not offer high financial returns, the University has established:
Astronomers have discovered a new planet in the constellation Sagittarius, the farthest from Earth found to date. Its so distant that light takes 5,000 years to travel from there to here at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.
Ca. January 1956 – West Publishing Co. (St. Paul, Minn.) presents the Law School with one of two known copies of “The Capitall Lawes of New-England, as they stand now…
Awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese. David Hembry 06 is this years winner of the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize. The prize is awarded annually to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. The award is sponsored by the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Memorial Fund and hosted by the Japanese Language Program.
Hysteria is no longer accepted as a valid medical diagnosis. You wont find it in the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, nor are any of the major pharmaceutical firms producing drugs to alleviate its symptoms.
When a young Barbara Haber accepted a part-time, low-paying position at a small library devoted to womens history in 1968, her library school mentor was dismayed. She showed such promise, he thought, that she should pursue loftier employment leading toward the goal of one day directing a library.
The Harvard mens and womens indoor track and field teams hosted crosstown rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 11) with mixed results. Powered by a first- through third-place sweep in the mile run, and strong outings in the long, triple, and high jumps, the mens team floated past the Huskies, 75-70. The womens squad, however, surrendered the meet, 71-56, despite a balanced afternoon in the field events.
A service commemorating the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held on Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, will deliver the keynote address, and the Kuumba Singers, a 90-member choral group of Harvard undergraduates dedicated to the expression of black creativity and spirituality, will perform.
Howard K. Koh, commissioner of public health for the commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1997, has agreed to join the faculty at the School of Public Health (SPH) as an associate dean and professor.
After analyzing medical malpractice insurance claims that involved 22 hospitals, researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have identified risk factors underlying medical errors that involve leaving surgical sponges or instruments inside patients after an operation, a rare but serious complication. Their findings appear in the Jan. 16 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
For Boston middle school students, schools out at 1:35 in the afternoon. Between that time and when their parents return home from work, youth crime spikes and drug use rises. Risk for teenage pregnancy increases in the late afternoon.
Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that a lifetime history of depression may be significantly associated with an early decline in ovarian function. Women in their late 30s and early 40s experiencing depressive symptoms and currently on medication to treat their mood disorders appear to be at the greatest risk of starting perimenopause at a younger age. These new findings are documented in an article published in the Jan. 13 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
The late Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was, in the opinion of admirers and detractors alike, the recluse/bookworm nonpareil. At the same time, he was (and is) regarded as a pop culture icon – one of Mick Jaggers heroes. Borges was an author, translator, avant-gardist, and expert in Medieval Anglo-Saxon literature. He was a man who hid in the solitude of libraries and a man who was considered a political threat in 1970s Argentina. The traveling exhibition Borges/The Time Machine, now on display in the Edison and Newman Room of Houghton Library, attempts to bring together the diverse roles played by Borges during his life and reveals a man who left traces across continents, across literary genres, across centuries.
The arts and visual culture of colonial India will be on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum now through May 25. Visitors will see works ranging from paintings and fine luxury objects to documentary drawings and historical photographs that show India during the European colonization of South Asia in the 17th through early 20th centuries.
A new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) internship is giving five undergraduate students a taste of life as computer programmers and developing new ways computers and the Internet can help teachers teach.
The School of Public Healths Harvard Mentoring Project and MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership have launched their second annual National Mentoring Month (NMM) campaign – a public/private initiative aimed at recruiting mentors for kids who are at risk of not achieving their potential.
Harvard set a recycling record in November, collecting 311 tons – the largest monthly volume ever and 34 percent of the Universitys total waste for that month, according to Rob Gogan, supervisor of recycling and waste management for Facilities Maintenance Operations.
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