Year: 2005

  • Nation & World

    Galway charms and instructs at Sanders

    If you want to become a great flutist, Sir James Galway has some advice for you: learn to sing and dance. At a master class on Jan. 5, he told Harvard students Music has a movement associated with it that is like the feeling of dance. When you play, you have to make peoples hearts…

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    Newsmakers

    Mellon Foundation honors Christine Korsgaard

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    Daffodil Days help bring spring a bit closer

    Following the record snowfall that befell Boston last month, its hard to imagine (though not for a lack of trying) that spring will ever arrive. Thankfully, with Harvards annual Daffodil Days fundraiser now under way, the art of seasonal visualization becomes a whole lot easier.

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    Solving the mystery of centuries-old plagues

    Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson believes hes solved twin centuries-old mysteries of Caribbean island ant plagues that devastated local agriculture.

    6 minutes
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    HSPH names Zelen Leadership Award winner

    The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently named Ross L. Prentice of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Public Health Sciences, the 2005 recipient of its Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Prentice will deliver a lecture on June 3 at the School and be presented with a…

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    Human Rights internship deadline is approaching

    The University Committee on Human Rights Studies (UCHRS) has announced the details of its 2005 summer internship program for undergraduates. Up to 10 summer internships will be available to qualified students seeking to work for eight to 10 weeks in a human rights organization in the United States or abroad.

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    A touch of elegans

    Wondering why his relatives went bald stimulated an interest in genetics for Craig Hunter.

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    Allston planners hear community voices

    An Allston community meeting Jan. 20 gave Harvards Allston neighbors a chance to voice opinions on the areas future, touching on everything from access to open space to traffic congestion to the location of utilities.

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    Upcoming tsunami vigils

    As part of a nationwide candlelight vigil for victims of the tsunami, the University community is invited to gather in Copley Square on Feb. 4 from 7 to 8 p.m. Representatives from various aid organizations will discuss progress in relief efforts and speak about short- and long-term needs. At 7:45 p.m., the mayor of Cambridge,…

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    Armed robbery reported on Chauncy Street

    On Jan. 26 at approximately 11:50 p.m., a male undergraduate student reported that he was the victim of an armed robbery while walking on Chauncy Street near Massachusetts Avenue. The victim stated that he was approached by three males who robbed him of his wallet, cell phone, and watch. During the robbery the victim was…

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    President holds office hours for students

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

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 31. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    Remembering Dr. King

    The Honorable Joyce London Alexander delivers the keynote address at a Memorial Church service to celebrate the life and message of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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    Robert Johnson, 35-year employee, passes away

    Robert M. Johnson, an employee of the University for 35 years, died on Dec. 18, 2004, in Sandwich, Mass. Johnson was 83. Johnson, who retired in 1979, worked at Harvard for buildings and grounds. He was a World War II veteran and a VFW commander.

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    Snaring secrets of Venus flytrap

    A team of researchers has solved the riddle of one of the plant kingdoms fastest and most ferocious movements: the blink-of-an-eye closing of the Venus flytrap.

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    Dean appointed to Graduate School of Design

    President Lawrence H. Summers announced Wednesday (Feb. 2) the appointment of Alan A. Altshuler, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning in the Harvard Graduate School of…

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    A record 22,717 students apply to the College

    A record total of 22,717 students have applied for entrance next September to Harvard College. This unprecedented applicant pool is due in large measure to the new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) announced by President Lawrence H. Summers last February in his keynote address to the American Council on Education, said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean…

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    Biggest stars produce strongest magnets

    Assistant Professor of Astronomy Bryan Gaensler and colleagues have discovered the source of powerful magnetic objects in the universe called magnetars, finding that some of the biggest stars in the…

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    Climate solutions through forests

    Using the environment to help address the nation’s pollution problems. That’s the focus of a new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and researchers at the Kennedy…

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    Winds and waves sculpted a ‘snowball Earth’

    It’s a world hard to imagine. Some 650 million years ago, Earth’s land and oceans were almost completely covered by ice and snow. The planet’s population – primitive plants and…

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    Suicide high among female doctors

    Male doctors take their own lives at a higher rate than the general population of white men in the United States. That’s been known for some time. Now, the largest,…

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    Weight and weight gain may predict breast cancer survival

    The study included 5,204 women with invasive breast cancer who were between the ages 30 to 55 when enrolled in the study in 1976. The researchers found that women who…

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    Phobic anxiety increases risk of sudden cardiac death in women

    According to lead author Christine M. Albert, M.D., M.P.H., an epidemiologist at BWH and an electrophysiologist and cardiologist at MGH, “Phobic anxiety is associated with coronary heart disease risk factors.…

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    Most Milky Way stars are single

    Common wisdom among astronomers holds that most star systems in the Milky Way are multiple, consisting of two or more stars in orbit around each other. Common wisdom is wrong.

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    Scientists discover “master switch” that triggers insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

    “We zeroed in on a factor called NF-kB,” said principal investigator Steven E. Shoelson, M.D., Ph.D., Helen and Morton Adler Chair and head of the Section on Cellular and Molecular…

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    Study says women don’t experience pain, anxiety during mammograms

    “I think it’s an old wives tale that mammograms hurt,” says the study’s lead author, Alice Domar, PhD, director of the Mind/ Body Center for Women’s Health at Boston IVF…

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    Weight gain and obesity linked to higher risk of kidney stones

    “Our study demonstrated that multiple measures of larger body size, including larger waist circumference, higher weight, and higher body mass index, were related to an elevated risk of kidney stones,”…

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    Snaring secrets of the Venus flytrap

    While “speed” is not a word most people associate with the plant kingdom, the Venus flytrap closes its v-shaped leaves in just one-tenth of a second – fast enough to…

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    Racial, ethnic gap in youth violence linked to social factors

    A study conducted by Robert J. Sampson of Harvard University and Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Stephen Raudenbush of the University of Michigan shows that the longstanding gap in the racial…

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    Solving the mystery of a centuries-old plague

    Edward O. Wilson identified two different ant species in investigating the mystery of centuries-old plagues, a tropical fire ant in the early 1500s and an introduced African ant in the…

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