Year: 2005

  • Campus & Community

    Gingerich to take up ‘God’s Universe’ at Noble Lectures

    Owen Gingerich, professor of astronomy and of the history of science emeritus at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and author of The Book Nobody Read, the story of Nicholas Copernicuss great work De revolutionibus, will deliver Harvards prestigious William Belden Noble Lectures in three parts, Nov. 14, 15, and 16 at 8 p.m. in the…

  • Campus & Community

    Six receive Hunn Award for outreach

    Six alumni/ae were recognized for their outstanding Schools and Scholarships work during an awards ceremony on Oct. 28.

  • Campus & Community

    IQSS, HSPH welcome four visiting scholars

    Harvards Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship program for outstanding new…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard wins Global Innovator Award

    Harvard has won a CoreNet Global Innovator Award for its success in managing capital projects and controlling risk.

  • Campus & Community

    GE’s senior VP becomes fellow at KSG, HLS

    General Electrics (GE) Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs Ben W. Heineman Jr. will become a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government this coming February. At that time, Heineman will also become the first Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law Schools Program…

  • Campus & Community

    Iraq’s ambassador to UN hopeful about democracy

    Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi, Iraqs ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, provided an inside look at the writing of the Iraqi constitution and the future of the democratic process Monday (Oct. 31) at the Kennedy School of Government.

  • Campus & Community

    George Widmer Thorn

    George Widmer Thorn (GWT) was born in Buffalo, NY, January 15, 1906. He was the son of George W. and Fanny Widmer Thorn. George senior was involved in the food industry and retired early at the height of the depression. However, in 1923 he was able to send GWT, age 17, to Wooster College, Ohio.

  • Campus & Community

    Sports in brief

    Dawson wows, plows Dartmouth to reset Harvard bar for yards Junior tailback Clifton Dawson finished off the visiting Big Green this past Saturday with 223 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns…

  • Campus & Community

    Fresh faces beat Colonials

    With five key skaters from last seasons squad either gone for good due to graduation (national scoring leader Nicole Corriero and top defender Ashley Banfield), or out for the year chasing Olympic gold (U.S. national team hopefuls Julie Chu 06 and Caitlin Cahow 07, and Canadian Sarah Vaillancourt 08), the Harvard womens hockey team looked…

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    RMO workshop to cover electronic recordkeeping Harvard’s Records Management Office (RMO) is offering one of its fall workshops on electronic recordkeeping Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. in Pusey Library. The…

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    HBS profs awarded paper prize Harvard Business School (HBS) Associate Professors Lee Fleming and Jan W. Rivkin, with co-author Olav Sorenson, have won a 2005 European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary…

  • Campus & Community

    Kokkalis Program calls for fellowship applications

    The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) strives to provide individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in Southeastern and East-Central Europe with educational opportunities to explore effectual and pioneering means of governance. The program awards fellowships to enable individuals from the region to pursue one of…

  • Campus & Community

    The Big Picture

    When Steven Riel talks about his life, much of what he relates sounds like poems waiting to happen.

  • Campus & Community

    Greenes honored with endowed chair at BWH

    Celebrating the tremendous progress made in the past 25 years in the field of biomedical informatics, along with the contributions made by Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences Robert Greenes, the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) has established an endowment for a Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Informatics, and has named Greenes…

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 31. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    November 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.” At Harvard, Darwin’s friends include Professors Asa Gray and Jeffries Wyman. Already evolutionists, they…

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting for Nov. 2

    At its fourth meeting of the year on Nov. 2, the Faculty Council considered a proposal to disband the Standing Committees on Benefits and on Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records, received a report on the priorities of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and discussed the report of the Committee on General Education.

  • Campus & Community

    Community Gifts campaign under way

    November marks the beginning of the month long Community Gifts Through Harvard campaign. Employees will receive campaign pledge cards in the mail this week. For more information, or to pledge online, visit www.community.harvard.edu/communitygifts.

  • Campus & Community

    Activists get active

    Marking the one-year anniversary of the Bush re-election and as part of a national student walkout against the war, the Harvard-Cambridge Walk for Peace gathered students and faculty together for a peace walk outside the Science Center on Wednesday (Nov. 2).

  • Campus & Community

    Security comes from growth, not guns

    Pakistans ambassador to the United States said Monday (Oct. 31) that the South Asian nation is banking on economic growth to build security rather than the military might it has relied on in the past.

  • Campus & Community

    Stairway to winter

    On one of the areas recent, welcome, unusually temperate days, a student treads carefully along a Carpenter Center path amid a dazzling autumn display.

  • Campus & Community

    Questions remain about China in space

    Two Chinese astronauts spent five days in space in early October, boosting national pride and the reputation of China’s high-tech industry, but leaving experts scratching their heads about China’s military…

  • Health

    New findings help explain how brain pathways control body weight

    A study led by a scientific team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center provides another important step in our understanding of the critical role that the brain’s molecular pathways play…

  • Campus & Community

    Armenia’s remarkable alphabet

    Armenians pride themselves on being the first nation to adopt Christianity, an event that is supposed to have occurred in the early fourth century when St. Gregory the Illuminator succeeded…

  • Campus & Community

    HapMap reveals roots of common diseases

    The genes that everyone inherits contain coded information that influences which diseases any individual is most at risk of getting. Countless studies show that small variations in genes play a…

  • Campus & Community

    Bulyk searches for DNA on-off switches

    Martha Bulyk held what looked like an ordinary glass slide up to the large window that is much of one wall of her Harvard Medical School office. The slide seemed…

  • Science & Tech

    Cosmic cloudshine

    Hubble’s iconic images include many shots of cosmic clouds of gas and dust called nebulae. For example, the famous “Pillars of Creation” mark the birthplace of new stars within the…

  • Science & Tech

    Study shows escalating climate change impacts

    The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, along with co-sponsors Swiss Re and the United Nations Development Programme, has released a study showing that climate…

  • Health

    Gingko may prevent ovarian cancer

    Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found initial laboratory and epidemiological evidence that, for the first time, demonstrates that ginkgo may help lower a woman’s risk of developing ovarian…

  • Science & Tech

    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,…