Year: 2005

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Oct. 17, 1640 – The Great and General Court grants Harvard the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry, which plies the shortest route between Boston and Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Medford, and…

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    Little Crimson fan

    For more than 15 years, Harvard has invited members of the Allston-Brighton community to enjoy lunch and a ball game. Nearly 500 Allston-Brighton neighbors turned out for the Harvard vs. Lehigh game Saturday (Oct. 1), including Karen Hocker and her son Declan. Eight-month-old Declan, son of Tom Hocker 76, is already displaying impeccable fashion taste.

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    Teach-in seeks lessons from disaster

    Hurricane Katrina exposed the United States inability to care for its most vulnerable citizens, abandoning them to a disaster policy that approximated survival of the fittest, international disaster experts said Friday (Sept. 30).

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    Schools welcome transfer students

    Jackson Troutt considered himself a diehard, a special breed of New Orleanian who scoffs at hurricane warnings and is determined to stay put regardless of weather. But that changed the morning of Aug. 29 when he switched on the radio and heard New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin urging everyone to evacuate the city immediately.

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    Glauber wins Nobel Prize in physics

    Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, has won a 2005 Nobel Prize in physics for pioneering work on the nature and behavior of light. Glauber shares the prestigious prize with John L. Hall of the University of Colorado and Theodor W. Hansch of the Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany.…

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    University opens heart (and doors) in the wake of devastating Katrina

    Perhaps Barry Bloom, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), expressed the feelings of the Harvard community best when he addressed a group of displaced students from Tulane University who are continuing their studies at Harvard:

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    Hurricane Katrina

    The following are excerpts from accounts that appear online. For more information, visit http://www.news.arvard.edu/press/pressdoc/pr-050901-katrina.html.

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    And the survey says: Harvard docs practice what they preach

    Do Harvard doctors practice what they preach? The Harvard Health Letter, the country’s first health newsletter for the general public, recently surveyed more than 15,000 Harvard Medical School faculty physicians…

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    Climate choices: Grim and grimmer

    Climate change from burning fossil fuels is probably already unavoidable, but it is still up to humans to decide just how bad it will be, Professor of Earth and Planetary…

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    CfA researchers discover black holes aren’t so black

    Common wisdom holds that we can never see a black hole because nothing can escape it – not even light. Fortunately, black holes aren’t completely black. As gas is pulled…

  • Health

    Stroke patients with mild symptoms may still need clot- dissolving drug

    “Our primary finding was that about 30 percent of those patients judged ‘too good to treat’ either died or were discharged to a rehabilitation facility,” says Eric Smith, MD, FRCPC,…

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    Magnetic stimulation helps stroke victims

    Felipe Fregni, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School, has used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to improve the movement skills of people whose brains have been damaged by strokes, skills that…

  • Health

    High blood glucose levels in early pregnancy may deprive embryo of oxygen

    Research appearing in the October 2005 issue of the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism suggests that high blood glucose levels early in pregnancy deprive the embryo of oxygen,…

  • Science & Tech

    It takes three Smithsonian observatories to decipher one mystery object

    In an exercise that demonstrates the power of a multiwavelength investigation using diverse facilities, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have deciphered the true nature of a mysterious…

  • Science & Tech

    Black holes aren’t so black

    As gas is pulled into a black hole by its strong gravitational force, the gas heats up and radiates. That radiation can be used to illuminate the black hole and…

  • Health

    Survey shows Harvard doctors practice what they preach

    In the 30th anniversary year for the Harvard Health Letter, the editors decided to revive a tradition and ask Harvard doctors whether they follow their own advice – two similar…

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    Bring Harvard University Gazette headlines to your desktop via RSS

    Bring Harvard University Gazette headlines to your desktop via RSS. Feeds with headlines and links for the articles in each of the Gazettes main sections are available through: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/rss/.

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    State fair, films ring in semester

    Corn dogs, cotton candy, a mechanical bull, scattered bales of hay, and a dunking booth transformed usually staid Tercentenary Theatre into the first Harvard State Fair on a shady Sept. 23rd evening.

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    Honan Apartments open in Allston-Brighton

    Fifty new units of affordable housing and the innovative partnership that helped make the development happen were the subject of celebration on Friday (Sept. 23) as the ribbon was cut on the Brian J. Honan Apartments at 33 Everett St. in Allston-Brighton.

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    Evening With Champions heats up the ice

    The color! The glitter! The hot sizzle of skates on ice! Top Olympic and world skaters will continue to fight cancer this fall as they gather once more at America’s…

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    Taking a look at how ant (and human) societies might grow

    Edward O. Wilson has learned a great deal about life by studying ant societies. In this knowledge, he finds parallels between the social interactions of insects and those of birds, lions, monkeys, apes, and even humans. The last parallel got him into trouble in the late 1970s, but he now enjoys credit for establishing a…

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    Harvard, others challenge amendment with brief

    Harvard and six other universities filed a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court last week (Sept. 21), challenging a law that requires universities to provide military recruiters access to campus that is equal in quality and scope to other recruiters.

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    Peters named associate dean at GSD

    Hannah Peters has been named the associate dean for external relations at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Dean Alan Altshuler recently announced. The appointment became effective Sept. 9. Peters comes to GSD from the Harvard Business School (HBS), where, since 1999, she has served as a member of the development leadership team working on…

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    Pre-empting disaster

    The mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina response was as much a failure of emergency systems as it was of leadership and may have been avoided had a new management system, originally created to fight forest fires, been fully implemented nationally, Kennedy School experts said Friday (Sept. 23).

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    Stampfer and Willett named ‘most-cited scientists of the decade’

    Meir Stampfer, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Walter Willett, chair of the Schools Department of Nutrition, were recently ranked the No. 1 and No. 2 most-cited scientists, respectively, in clinical medicine for the past decade.

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    Philip S. Holzman

    Dr. Philip S. Holzman, a preeminent figure in the world of schizophrenia research and one of the countrys leading schizophrenia researchers, died on June 1, 2004, at the age of 82. Dr. Holzman is survived by Ann Holzman, his wife of 58 years his children Natalie Bernardoni, Carl Holzman and Paul Holzman his son-in-law Gene…

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    Reclaiming religion from the right

    Divinity School lecturer and evangelical Christian leader Jim Wallis said the time has come to end the religious rights monologue on national moral values and begin a new, broader-based dialogue that goes beyond a fixation on gay marriage and abortion.

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    Harvard launches new photo conservation program

    With the Oct. 1 arrival of Brenda Bernier as senior photograph conservator in the Weissman Preservation Center (WPC), the Harvard University Library will officially launch a University-wide photograph preservation program. The Universitys photographic holdings, estimated at more than 7.5 million items in 48 Harvard repositories, date to the emergence of photography in the 1840s.

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    What lies beneath

    A reproduction could never do justice to Rudolf de Crignis 1999 painting Untitled. The most any photographic process could possibly show would be a blue square. But walk up close to the painting and you realize there is more to it than that. The Swiss-born painter has covered his canvas with about 40 layers of…

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    A musical feast honors Christoph Wolff

    This past week, Harvard reverberated with some of the greatest music ever composed, performed by some of its finest interpreters.