Year: 2005

No link between breast cancer and consumption of chips and fries Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, have found no association…

New research shows that children between 8 and 15 years old who are in the upper half of the normal weight range are more likely than their leaner peers to become obese or overweight as young adults. This research was conducted over nearly a decade at the Harvard Medical School (HMS), Harvard Pilgrim Health Care…

Harvard has joined a new coalition of universities, hospitals, patient organizations, business groups, and scientific societies whose aim is to support embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts and, specifically, to support pending legislation on stem cell research in the Massachusetts legislature.

Just days after President Bush returned from a fence-mending visit overseas, Frances defense minister told a Harvard audience that Europe and the United States are positioned to overcome their differences on Iraq and work together in confronting a range of world challenges.

Grumet-Morris grabs Walter Brown Award The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston announced this week that Harvard goalie Dov Grumet-Morris ’05 has been selected as the winner of the 53rd Walter…

Less than a week after crashing Dartmouths would-be Ivy clinching party with a 70-67 come-from-behind win (a victory that served to snag the Harvard womens basketball team a share of the league prize), the Crimson were turned away from the Big Dance. The snub followed the teams most recent match-up this past Saturday (March 12)…

Only two weeks after Brian Skotko, a joint-degree student at Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government, published a paper about problems in physician delivery of a Down syndrome diagnosis in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG), he has been invited to the nations Capitol for a joint press conference with…

Grossman Library to close during Sever Hall renovations The Harvard Extension School’s Grossman Library will be closed beginning May 28 while Sever Hall undergoes major renovations. The library will reopen…

NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell to accept Shorenstein award Sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism will…

Award-winning biophysicist Lily Jan was named the 2005 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University. Jan will be awarded the foundations medal at the annual Science Conference ceremony on Friday (March 18) at Pforzheimer House.

A panel of educators met March 15 at the Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to discuss the 40-year history of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The panel members agreed on the acts beneficial impact on public education, but they could find little good to say about its most recent version, the Bush administrations…

Karl Stevens spends each workday surrounded by art. Little wonder then, that after steeping in it for three years, some art inside him is trying to get out.

Seeking to accelerate the pace of research into the molecular mechanisms that govern aging, philanthropist Paul F. Glenn, an alumnus of Harvard Law School and founder of the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research in Santa Barbara, Calif., has committed $5 million to Harvard Medical School (HMS) over five years to launch the Paul F. Glenn…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Widely considered the worlds most eminent evolutionary biologist, Mayr joined Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953 and led Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.

March 24, 1949 – In Sanders Theatre, Harvard debaters meet counterparts from Cambridge University, England, to consider the following proposition: “Resolved, That the American Revolution was a mistake.” Not surprisingly,…

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted on two motions concerning Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers Tuesday (March 15) during a meeting at the Loeb Drama Center.

On March 10, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a female graduate student reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that she was the victim of an armed robbery while walking on Banks Street near Grant Street. The victim stated that while entering her residence she was approached from behind by an offender who began hitting her…

Lets say youre an academic adviser and a student comes asking which course to take to fulfill a humanities requirement: Europe in the Age of Revolution or Beethovens symphonies? Or how about this one: the philosophy of Descartes or the poetry of Milton?

Gabriel Clement is hoping for a bigger bus to display all the photos of (mostly) Mather House students he has hanging in his vehicle. The five-year employee travels a route called run D, which makes a regular stop at Mather House.

The show began with a blast of throbbing, high-decibel techno music from which the melody of The Star-Spangled Banner fleetingly emerged like a familiar voice shouting for help in the midst of a hysterical crowd.

Award-winning actress Sharon Stone, who for the past 10 years has been a dedicated fundraiser and advocate for AIDS research, received the Harvard Foundations 2005 Humanitarian Award Monday evening (March 14) at the Memorial Church.

Rick Warren came to the Kennedy School March 9 to promote God, civil dialogue, and his book The Purpose Driven Life.

Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,500 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2005-2006 rental season begins.

Four seniors and one graduate from Harvard University have been selected Gates Scholars. Now in its fifth cycle, the scholarship program – set up by a trust from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – allows gifted students the opportunity to continue graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England. These five students join…

Is Irans nuclear program a hazard to the international community? And if so, how should the problem be addressed? Those questions were posed to a panel Tuesday night (March 15) at the Kennedy School of Government.