Postmenopausal women who have taken hormone replacement therapy in the past were 50 percent less likely to develop the blinding disease related to advanced age called maculopathy (ARM), as compared with women who never used hormone therapy.
Analysis of available data suggests that Chlamydia pneumoniae, which causes walking pneumonia, may contribute to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and its complications, such as heart attack and stroke, according to a paper in the Dec. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
In the upcoming months, getting into the administrative offices in the Holyoke Center will take a little extra effort. But once there, employees and visitors will be much safer.
The Board of Directors of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA), has elected Abhishek Gupta 04 as president for the upcoming fiscal year. He will begin his term Feb. 1, 2003, and he will lead the corporation for one year.
At the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Thursday (Dec. 5), slides of the work of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo conveyed their powerful, horrible beauty: Womens worn shoes roughly sutured behind a thin membrane of animal skin … armoires filled with concrete … a battered cabinet with a zipper between its gaping seams … wooden desk chairs lowered over the sides of Bogotas Palace of Justice, the site of a brutal urban battle between guerilla forces and the army that killed more than 100 people in 1985.
Yu Huang, a doctoral student in Professor Charles Lieber’s lab, has used fluid flows to arrange tiny bits of wires that are just billionths of a meter wide into millimeter-long…
“Contrary to popular belief, college students are engaged in their community and tuned into current events,” said Dan Glickman, director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a former U.S. Cabinet…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Dec. 7. The official log is located at 1060 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:
The Lowest Common Denominators lead guitarists office isnt what one imagines for a rock musician. Books are neatly arranged on shelves around his desk, theres tasteful art on the wall, and photos of his kids are lined up on the windowsill.
According to Sir Crispin Tickell, the longtime British diplomat and leader in the debate on global climate change, there is indeed something new under the sun. Human activity is changing the natural environment in unprecedented, profound, and dangerous ways. If our species and millions of others are to survive, Tickell says, we must drastically change our approach to our ecosystem.
The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of 44 creative projects to be held at Harvard University next spring by students in dance, music, theater, literature, and more. Projects include visual art exhibitions in the Science Center, new student publications, music projects and performances, and both classic and student-written theater pieces.
The Nigerian riots sparked by the Miss World Pageant brought global attention to the deep divisions between the nations largely Muslim north and the Christian-dominated south, highlighting regional differences that have some wondering whether Africas most populous nation can survive.
The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) has announced the recipients of its 2002 Faculty Research Project Awards. As part of its mission to promote cross-disciplinary and cross-faculty research, the HUCE instituted this annual awards competition for teams of Harvard researchers who are looking to address environmental issues of global concern. The awards are made possible by a gift from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation.
Community after-school providers at a recent forum held at the Business School learned about current research on how to improve academic achievement and the positive development of children through after-school programs. The Dec. 6 forum was sponsored by Bostons After-School for All Partnership, the Program in Afterschool Education and Research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Harvard After School Initiative. It featured seven research reports commissioned by the Partnership on relevant topics for professionals including Enhancing Literacy Support in After-School Programs and Using Technology to Support Learning. It also laid out recommendations for increasing learning opportunities in after-school time throughout Boston. Chris Gabrieli (above), chairman of the After-School for All Partnership, spoke to the group about A Vision for Bostons After-School Sector.
The Weatherhead Foundation voted in September 2002 to award $6 million to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs to provide additional support to the centers student programs and the work of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. In 1998, Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation had endowed the center with a gift of $21 million. Renamed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in recognition of the Weatherheads generosity, the Weatherhead Center as a result has become an increasingly vital generator of fundamental research in the disciplines of international affairs.
Guests from the Harvard community mingle among the works on display at the Visual and Environmental Studies Student Holiday Show and Sale during the reception for the artists at the main gallery in the Carpenter Center on Dec. 5. The show runs through Dec. 19. Digest (left) by Yugon Kim, GSD 04, consisting of lightbulbs and tennis balls, is one of several works that are displayed on the floor.
Many people imagine that Buddhist meditation aims at tranquility as an escape from the emotional pangs of everyday life. Not so, says author and teacher Pema Chödrön. My word for the Buddhist path is courage, Ani Pema told an audience of 1,600 in the Memorial Church on Friday evening (Dec. 6). Tranquility is a lucky side effect.
The Harvard University English Department resolved on Nov. 19 to renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading, under the Morris Gray Lectureship. The faculty members present, constituting nearly the entire department, approved this decision with no opposing votes. There were two abstentions.
At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed recent free speech issues in the faculty. The dean of the Faculty, Professor William Kirby (history), and the dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor Benedict Gross (mathematics), also updated the council on the Curricular Review. Additionally the dean of the College, Professor Harry Lewis (DEAS), presented to the council a recommendation from the undergraduate Administrative Board that two students be dismissed. Finally, the council voted to endorse the proposed Summer School courses for 2003.
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will present a daylong conference on Saturday (Dec. 7) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Harvard Hall, Room 202, titled Disparities in Minority Healthcare: Reaching Out to the Community. The student-directed conference will address a wide range of health-care issues facing impoverished American communities, including Native American, African American, Hispanic/Latino American, and Asian American, among others.
Dec. 6-7, 1941 – Harvard faculty, government officials, and labor delegates convene at the Business School for a conference on Labor and National Defense. It is believed to be the first meeting of its kind in the nation.
Following are some the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 30. 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:
John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, whose 1971 book, A Theory of Justice argued persuasively for a society based on equality and individual rights, died Nov. 24 at the age of 81.
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