This year eligible alumni voters will elect five members of the Universitys Board of Overseers and six directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots will be mailed during the…
Images of natural repairs being made on DNA damaged by oxidation have been captured by chemists at Harvard University. The damage is an inevitable consequence of breathing. Roughly 100,000 times…
Marijuana can be hard on the heart. In the first hour after smoking pot, a persons risk of a heart attack could rise almost five times, according to a Harvard…
The purpose of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is to promote the welfare of Harvard University and to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard University and its alumni. The…
Hans J. Massaquoi, author of Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, (Morrow, 1999) will give a talk about his memoir on Monday, March 6, at 6 p.m.…
Melding the tools of cognitive development, developmental psychology, art, brain-imaging technology, and education, Kim Sheridan is trying to unlock the mystery of artistic taste. It has taken years for Sheridan…
In this season of presidential primaries, education has at long last become a critical component of the stump speech, superceding even crime and foreign affairs. Every candidate is eager to…
Michael Connells fascination with “neural networks”computer programs that simulate the activity of brain cells or neurons and actually learn over timestems in no small part from a “crystallizing moment” he…
Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefitssuch as a sense of hope, that…
In his book All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael MacDonald chronicles his childhood in a predominantly poor, Irish-American neighborhood in Boston during the antibusing riots of the 1970s.…
Newly appointed professor of education and incoming director of the Harvard Literacy Laboratory Connie Juel is moving some of the services of the renowned lab into public schools. This is…
“Is the brain shaped and even changed by its experiences with language?” wonders Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. “Does language change the way people think?” A former seventh-grade science teacher, Immordino-Yang is…
When the quintessential master of ceremonies took the stage to accept the Pudding Pot at the Hasty Pudding Theatre on Thursday night, he got exactly what he bargained for. Six-time…
Cultural Rhythms Festival Feb. 26 The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural & Race Relations will present its annual Cultural Rhythms Festival on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m. in Sanders Theatre…
Young athletes from all over Boston converged on Harvard on a chilly Saturday in February. They took instruction from Harvard coaches and student-athletes. They labored and sweated, pushing themselves to…
The sweet rhythms of the Radcliffe Pitches will fill the air at the Sanders Theatre on Friday, Feb. 25, when Harvards oldest all-female a cappella group marks a major milestone…
In the summer of 1993, an outbreak of a waterborne disease in Milwaukee killed more than 100 people and sickened 400,000 others. The crisis could have been ripped from the…
Approximately 100 student leaders in public service from Harvard, Wellesley, Columbia, the University of North Carolina, and several other universities gathered at the Kennedy School of Government last Saturday for…
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) will hold its fifth annual Student Research Conference and International Forum on Feb. 25, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gutman…
A growing population of seniors living longer, healthier lives will present new challenges and opportunities to the housing market, states a new report by Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies.…
Make up your mind, America. Thats the message of Kennedy School of Government economist George Borjas, a specialist in immigration who believes the United States is of two minds about…
She was pistol-whipped, raped, beaten unconscious, and kicked until she bled. He used her head to break windows. He threatened her with a machete. When she pleaded with local authorities…
Americas Latino population is more than 30 million and growing. Yet, as the nation absorbs one of the largest waves of immigration in its history, knowledge about the Latino population…
Most Americans think that we are “Garbage” was the response of a 14-year-old Dominican boy when asked to complete a survey sentence by Harvard immigration experts Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco.…
A young woman from the West Indies one of hundreds of people Mary Waters interviewed for her new book on West Indian immigration told Waters that she had…
The Womens Leadership Project (WLP) is currently accepting applications from Harvard undergraduates for its 13th annual Harvard Womens Leadership Conference, to be held Sept. 4-9, 2000. The weeklong conference brings…
Stanbridge is Architect of Distinction at GSD Harvard Graduate School of Design student Paul Stanbridge 00 has received both the Autodesk Architect of Distinction Award and the ALEX Award for…
Anna Portnoy had come halfway around the world to witness the birth of a goddess. It was a difficult delivery. As a junior concentrating in the Study of Religion, Portnoy…
His Holiness Bhakti Bhavana Vishnu Maharaj, a Hindu monk and swami of the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, will give a lecture titled “Gaudiya Vaishnavism: The Spiritual Science of Vedic India” on…
As you read this, frigid air spirals slowly downward from the stratosphere into the winter darkness of the arctic, part of a complex process destroying the ozone layer that shields…
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