Year: 2005

  • Health

    Zoologist says in animal kingdom, less is more

    Harvard researcher Piotr Naskrecki hopes his new book, “The Smaller Majority” (Harvard University Press, 2005), will win over some new advocates for the tiny creatures he has spent his life…

  • Health

    Herceptin treatment lowers recurrence rate in early breast cancer

    Encouraging findings came from an interim report from HERA, an ongoing large, international clinical trial of Herceptin, published Oct. 19, 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The analysis…

  • Health

    Dietary fat intake linked to dry eye syndrome in women

    Dry eye syndrome is characterized by a decline in the quality or quantity of tears that normally bathe the eye to keep it moist and functioning well. The condition causes…

  • Science & Tech

    Mercury advisories may do more harm than good

    A study warns that if advisories cause fish consumption in the general public to drop out of fear about the effects of mercury, substantial nutritional benefits could be lost. The…

  • Campus & Community

    Mohamed A. El-Erian named president and CEO of Harvard Management Company

    The Board of Harvard Management Company (HMC) today (Oct. 14) announced that it has appointed Mohamed A. El-Erian president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company, commencing early in 2006.

  • Health

    Brain injury reversed in animal model of AIDS

    Depending on the circumstances, missing N-acetylaspartate (NAA) in the brain may indicate Alzheimer’s disease, ischemic stroke, a brain tumor, or traumatic injury. And, as doctors soon learned with the AIDS…

  • Health

    Vaccine may clear Alzheimer’s brain plaques

    While there is still no consensus about the role of waxy amyloid plaques that fill the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, many in the field believe they are a root cause…

  • Health

    Special delivery brings fats to immune system

    It was both unexpected and unsurprising when, in the mid -1990s, Michael Brenner, the Theodore Bevier Bayles professor of medicine, and his colleagues showed that some antigen- presenting cells display…

  • Health

    Study finds vaccines boost the economies of poor countries

    A study determined that previous measurements of the benefits of immunization have generally underestimated their economic value by focusing solely on health-related impacts such as averted illnesses, hospitalizations, deaths, disability,…

  • Campus & Community

    Running in Lesotho

    Editors note: Graduate student at the School of Public Health and resident tutor at Leverett House Jane Humphries 03 spent her summer working in Lesotho, Africa, in the village of ha Ntlama, under the auspices of Operation Crossroads Africa. In addition to assisting in a local clinic, distributing medicines and vitamins, watching after children while…

  • Campus & Community

    Fourteen Harvard faculty inducted into AAAS

    Fourteen Harvard faculty members were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) as fellows at a Sanders Theatre ceremony this past Saturday (Oct. 8). One of the newly named fellows, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, was among the featured speakers at the ceremony, the academys 225th annual induction event.

  • Campus & Community

    Program in Ethics and Health fellows begin tenure

    The first three recipients of the postdoctoral fellowship in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health have settled in to begin their two years of research in ethical issues arising in health care and public health. They are:

  • Campus & Community

    OfA, Systems Biology co-sponsor art residency

    Venturing into the crosscurrents of art and science, the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Department of Systems Biology (DSB) at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) are co-sponsoring a public art residency by artist Brian Knep for the 2005-06 academic year. For this novel initiative, the Office of the Provost has awarded…

  • Campus & Community

    Administrators learn on the job

    Doug Melton recalled looking at frog and salamander eggs in a pond when he was a child and wondering how the individual egg knew whether to make a frog or salamander.

  • Campus & Community

    Katrina continues to stir Harvard community into action

    Harvard programs and initiatives to help Hurricane Katrina victims have been multiplying.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Center for the Environment accepting fellow applicants The Harvard University Center for the Environment recently announced that it will name its first eight environmental fellows in March 2006. The fellows’…

  • Campus & Community

    FAS, Kennedy School luminary wins Nobel Prize

    Thomas C. Schelling, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his instrumental research on game theory.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 10. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting Oct. 5

    At its second meeting of the year (Oct. 5), the Faculty Council received a report from a subset of the council on their meeting with Fellows of the Harvard Corporation. The council also discussed a draft report of the Committee on General Education and received a report on proposed changes in policy concerning Harvard-sponsored undergraduate…

  • Campus & Community

    ‘A journey of a thousand miles …’

    Behind Lyman Hall, workmen lay gravel and cement in the process of preparing the area for a new science building.

  • Campus & Community

    Ivory-billed woodpecker: Ornithology’s holy grail

    Tim Gallagher and Bobby Harrison almost flopped into the mud of Arkansas Bayou de View in their haste to get out of the canoe. They crashed through the undergrowth after the flashing black and white bird that was threatening to vanish among the huge cypresses.

  • Campus & Community

    Leroy David Vandam

    Leroy David Vandam, M.D., the first Harvard Medical School Professor of Anesthesia at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, now Brigham and Womens Hospital, died April 8, 2004 in Needham, Massachusetts in the 90th year of his life.

  • Campus & Community

    Exhibit explores role of women in wartime

    The women march in row after row of orderly columns, a battalion heading not to war but to work under the banner For Every Fighter, a Woman Worker.

  • Campus & Community

    International fellows find safe haven at Harvard

    A Turkish psychiatrist, a theologian from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a legal scholar from Rwanda joined the Harvard community this fall to undertake research through the Scholars at Risk Program, which offers visiting fellowships to scholars whose work is jeopardized by political persecution in their home countries.

  • Campus & Community

    American Australian fellowship open to Harvard students

    The American Australian Association (AAA) recently announced that it is sponsoring its second year of United States to Australia Fellowships. The program will provide up to four awards totaling $80,000 to outstanding American students to pursue graduate and postdoctoral studies and research in life and ocean sciences, medicine, engineering, or mining at top Australian universities…

  • Campus & Community

    Frederick Schauer earns Oxford appointment

    Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), has been appointed George Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford for the 2007-08 academic year. Schauer will be the 66th holder of the chair, which was created in 1929 by an endowment from George Eastman, founder of the…

  • Campus & Community

    Richard Elliott Neustadt

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 17, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    On the ground in Baton Rouge

    As Hurricane Katrina made landfall and tore through the Southern coastline with now-legendary ferocity, millions of Americans sat in front of their TVs with a familiar feeling of helplessness. What can I do? Many reached for their wallets a few took to the road. S. Allen Counter, who was watching TV in far-away Stockholm, was…

  • Campus & Community

    Doctors take their place on front lines

    Many stories and images are engraved in Christian Arbelaezs memory from the 12 days he spent as a volunteer working with people who had been driven into shelters by Hurricane Katrina, but a few stand out in high relief.

  • Campus & Community

    Sports in brief

    Turnovers undermine Crimson at Big Red A stingy Cornell football team limited the visiting Crimson to just 226 total yards on its way to a 27-13 victory this past Saturday…