Birds of prey have rebounded since DDT era and returned to Memorial Hall. Now new livestream camera offers online visitors front row seat of storied perch.
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.
The Cambridge City Council unanimously approved an order last week to name a city square after the late Scott Sandberg – the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study building services coordinator who died in a November avalanche – in honor of his efforts to improve recycling.
January may not be autumn, but its first two weeks envelop students in the fall reading period nonetheless. Its that almost-free-but-fretful time after the holiday break, when regular class sessions have ended but term papers are due and exams loom.
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:
A team of astronomers led by Matthew Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and JJ Kavelaars (National Research Council of Canada) has discovered three previously unknown moons of Neptune. This finding boosts the number of known satellites of the gas giant to 11. These moons are the first to be discovered orbiting Neptune since the Voyager II flyby in 1989, and the first discovered from a ground-based telescope since 1949.
Co-authors receive TIAA-CREF award The TIAA-CREF Institute, a research and education unit of TIAA-CREF, has announced that Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell and Assistant Professor of…
When Emily Famutimi 03 founded Keylatch Mentor for adolescents who had aged out of the South Ends Keylatch Afterschool Program that she directed, she took money from her own pocket, buying supplies as well as T tokens and movie tickets for the kids activities with their mentors.
C. Douglas Dillon 31, LLD 59, the former U.S. treasury secretary and president of the Harvard Board of Overseers whose accomplishments spanned the realms of government, diplomacy, finance, economics, and art, died last Friday (Jan. 10) at age 93. Dillon had lengthy and distinguished careers in investment banking and public service, ultimately serving in the administrations of three U.S. presidents.
Archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef is an interpreter of ancient human history as told by barn owls, a sleuth in search of mankinds past, reading the ashes of campfires extinguished millennia ago and examining stone flakes for evidence of a human hand in their creation.
Despite a substantial jump in Early Action applications to Harvard College this year, the number of admitted students remained at roughly the same level as the previous five years. A total of 1,150 students were admitted this year from a record pool of 7,620. Last year, 1,174 of 6,126 applicants were admitted.
At least one figure in the Winthrop House courtyard was unfazed by one of the many snowfalls that has whitened Cambridge and the rest of New England recently.
On Dec. 21, at approximately 4:30 a.m., three Harvard Business School students were the victims of an armed robbery at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street. The victims reported that two males approached them from behind, produced two small handguns, and proceeded to take the wallet of one of the victims. One of the other victims was repeatedly struck in the head with a handgun when they were slow in handing over their bag. The Cambridge Police Department (CPD), Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), and the Massachusetts State Police searched the area with negative results.
A chart that accompanied the Dec. 12, 2002, Gazette article titled Paycheck changes for staff contained an error. The charts last two headings were inadvertently transposed. The corrected headings appear in the chart above. The Gazette regrets the error.
At its seventh meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the implications for the Faculty of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act and other recent and related government legislation and regulation. Deputy General Counsel Robert Iuliano and Professor Paul Martin, dean for Research and Information Technology in FAS were present for this discussion.
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:
Temporary teachers sought As part of the Harvard School Vacation Program, Work/Life and Family Resources is looking for teachers or teacher assistants to work with school-age children of University faculty…
The Boys Choir of Harlem, the internationally acclaimed performing ensemble of the Choir Academy of Harlem, will participate in a residency at Harvard Feb. 4-8.
While for years it has been hypothesized that meat consumption is associated with breast cancer, a new study from Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) provides compelling evidence that diets high in animal protein may not be significantly associated with breast cancer risk. This finding is the latest result from the landmark BWH-based Nurses Health Study, and will appear in the Jan. 9 online issue of the International Journal of Cancer.
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