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.
A memorial service for Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of the comparative history of religion emeritus, will be held on Friday, May 5, at 2:30 p.m. in the Memorial Church in…
The Harvard mens heavyweight crew, ranked fourth in the nation, solidified its standing with a victory over fifth-ranked Princeton and M.I.T. in the 65th rowing of the Compton Cup Saturday…
Scientists at Harvard University have made wires too small to see without a powerful microscope. They are almost too small to imagine thousands of times thinner than a human…
Older people frequently forget where they left their glasses or parked their car. Could such memory lapses be a sign of Alzheimers disease? Until now, no good way existed to…
The womens basketball team held its annual post-season banquet on Tuesday evening, April 25. In addition to team awards for 1999-00, head coach Kathy Delaney Smith announced that juniors Kristen…
Arthur Mu-En Lee, associate professor of molecular biology at the Harvard School of Public Health and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, died on April 10 following surgery…
His lifes work is a montage of musical masterpieces, including three symphonies, three string quartets, two operas, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata “The Flight into Egypt.” Yet, its not so…
The painfully sensitive skin that accompanies many migraines has revealed a new understanding of the debilitating headaches. The latest findings from Boston researchers are the first that may explain why…
A memorial service, “A Celebration of the Life of Navin Narayan,” will be held on Friday, May 5, in the Adams House Library at 2:30 p.m. Navin Narayan 99 died…
Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow, the founder and former faculty director of the Schools Clinical Programs and a pioneering public interest lawyer, died on April 13 from cardiac arrest…
Brain cells that make it possible for zebra finches to sing were forced to die then brought back to life by researchers at Harvard and Rockefeller universities. In a major…
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus Abram Chayes, 77, who served as the Kennedy Administrations chief international lawyer at the height of the Cold War and who taught at Harvard…
Sharon P. Clayborne, director of financial aid at Harvard Medical School, died on Thursday, April 13, at the age of 47. Clayborne tirelessly counseled students through the financial aid process.…
The Harvard Defenders, a Harvard Law School student organization that provides legal representation to low-income persons accused of crimes, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday, April 29. The Harvard…
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new set of guidelines relating to the use of Harvards name and insignia in electronic contexts such as Web pages, e-mail addresses and…
WIRED WOMAN RAISES FUNDS FOR JIMMY FUND The Graduate School of Education’s Dayna Muller, whose vital signs were monitored while she ran the Boston Marathon last Monday, straddles the Wellesley-Newton…
“If you have ever experienced intolerable delays downloading a program or page, you understand the pitfalls of Internet congestion,” said Nathaniel Duca before a panel of science judges at the…
A memorial service in honor of Murray B. Levin 48, a retired political science professor who taught at Boston University and the Harvard Extension School, will be held on Friday,…
By day, they hit the books and the labs, making the rounds in their academic pursuits. But by night, a talented coterie of School of Public Health (SPH), Medical School…
Its the Mail Jail Harvards Dead Letter Office and into it go letters and packages that are undeliverable because of incomplete addresses that often consist of just a name…
A group of Harvard undergraduates met in Athens, Greece, during spring break, March 25-29, to coordinate the World Model United Nations (WorldMUN). The diplomatic simulation allowed students, representing United Nations…
Three Selected for 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship Three members of Harvards faculty are among the 182 artists, scholars, and scientists awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows…
On a still spring night in Cambridge, more than 100 people gathered at Harvard Yard for a candlelight vigil and march to draw attention to the issue of violence against…
April is Alcohol Awareness Month The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) offers free, confidential help with alcohol problems to all Harvard faculty, staff, retirees, and their families. For telephone…
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) supports direct student involvement in the arts to integrate creative thinking and expression into the undergraduate educational experience. Harvard students are embarking…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.…
Nationally eminent constitutional scholar and Dean of the Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan will deliver an address on “The Constitution in the Twenty-first Century” in Longfellow Hall on Appian Way…
Alex S. Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of PBS Media Matters, has been named the new director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public…
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