Year: 2006

  • Campus & Community

    Boston Ballet premieres its ‘Grand Slam’

    The Boston Ballet came to Harvard last week (Feb. 23) to present a preview of the ambitious program its presenting later this month (March 16-26) at the Wang Center: an extravaganza the company is unabashedly calling Grand Slam: Four Powerful Works, Four Intriguing Choreographers.

  • Campus & Community

    Big ballroom competition tangos into the MAC

    With the success of TVs Dancing with the Stars, ballroom dance has become something of a national craze. That craze will soon sweep over Cambridge, courtesy of the Harvard University Ballroom Dance Team. Longtime devotees to this graceful dance style, the team will celebrate its 15th annual invitational – one of the largest and most…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard, Indian Health Service forge partnership

    Provost Steven E. Hyman of Harvard University and Charles W. Grim, assistant surgeon general and director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to identify areas of collaboration to improve the health and wellness of American Indian and Alaska Native people and communities. The signing took place Feb. 21…

  • Campus & Community

    Pakistan critical to South Asia stability

    A top Pakistani official gave voice to the frustration the South Asian nation feels in its relations with the United States Friday (Feb. 24), saying that though Pakistan has been a staunch U.S. ally, the United States ignores Pakistan until its interests force its attention there.

  • Campus & Community

    Blackwill speaks of ‘natural allies’

    Robert Blackwill, former U.S. ambassador to India, called for further strengthening the ties between the two countries during a discussion at the Kennedy School Forum Monday night (Feb. 27). Blackwills forum appearance comes as President Bush prepared to travel to India this week for meetings with top Indian leaders.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Foundation honors Hilfiger with Humanitarian Award

    The Harvard Foundation of Harvard University has selected acclaimed fashion designer and philanthropist Tommy Hilfiger as its 2006 Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award winner. Hilfiger will receive the award and deliver the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture at the Memorial Church on March 7 at 7:30 p.m.

  • Campus & Community

    Fromm Fest promises cutting-edge compositions

    The Fromm Foundation and the Harvard University Department of Music are proud to present this years Fromm Festival, a free concert series running March 10-12 in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Curated by composer Hans Tutschku, the concerts are part of an impetus to program work that would otherwise not be seen in the…

  • Campus & Community

    Close, but no crown

    At the closing ceremonies of last weeks swimming and diving Ivy League championship (Feb. 23-25 at Blodgett Pool), the Harvard women took to the podium to collect their trophy. Thing is, it wasnt exactly the prize they had set out to win. That prize – the 2006 Ivy League Womens Swimming and Diving Championship -…

  • Campus & Community

    HUAM announce plan to transform facilities

    The Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which together comprise the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), recently announced a comprehensive new plan that will enable the institution to better fulfill its mission as a leading center for research and teaching in the visual arts. A core goal of the…

  • Campus & Community

    HRES approves 2006-07 rent schedule

    Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,600 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2006-07 rental season begins.

  • Campus & Community

    Casey new FAS associate dean for academic affairs

    Brian W. Casey, who recently took the reins as the new associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), comes at a time of extraordinary faculty growth. During the past year alone, the Faculty has increased from 672 to nearly 700 strong. And as he works with the academic leadership…

  • Campus & Community

    President Summers holds office hours

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Wednesday, March 15, 4-5:30 p.m. (students and staff) Thursday, April 20,…

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial for Soltan set for tomorrow

    A memorial celebration for the life of Jerzy Soltan, the Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Emeritus, will be held March 3 from 10 a.m. to noon…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    March 27, 1737 – President Benjamin Wadsworth dies in office. March 1770-March 1773 – Seeking refuge from the political tumult of Boston, the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay…

  • Campus & Community

    Armed robbery reported on North Harvard Street

    On Feb. 23 at approximately 1:30 a.m., two male undergraduate students reported to the Boston Police Department (BPD) that they were the victims of an armed robbery while walking on North Harvard Street near the Murr Athletic Center. The victims were approached by an individual who displayed a handgun and demanded that they hand over…

  • Campus & Community

    In Gere

    Actor, tap dancer, and People magazines former sexiest man alive Richard Gere was tested to see if he was man enough to receive the Hasty Pudding Pot on Friday night (Feb. 24).

  • Campus & Community

    Yau travels down the road less taken

    Horng-Tzer Yau’s affinity for mathematics was obvious in high school, where, in his native Taiwan, he began studying advanced calculus and college algebra. He developed an interest in physics at…

  • Campus & Community

    HMS researchers find how gold fights arthritis

    Gold compounds have been used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases for more than 75 years, but, until now, how the metals work has been a…

  • Campus & Community

    Evolving ideas

    Is the problem with evolution A) people don’t believe in it; B) people believe in it but don’t understand it; or C) evolution comes packaged with troubling implications that we…

  • Campus & Community

    Whites more likely than blacks to die soon after spouse’s death

    A longitudinal study of 410,272 elderly American couples indicates that the “widowhood effect” – the increased probability of death among new widows and widowers – is large and enduring among…

  • Campus & Community

    Transplanted cells regenerate muscles

    Biological engineering, which once excited the medical community, has been fraught with the difficulties of keeping transplanted cells alive and getting them to integrate with a host’s body. Researchers at…

  • Science & Tech

    Mold, mold everywhere

    Mold has attacked what remains of New Orleans, engulfing the city in slime. Typically, clean indoor environments show mold spore concentrations of less than 1,000 per cubic meter of air.…

  • Health

    Study provides first physiological evidence that insulin is critical for blood vessel formation

    For people with type 2 diabetes, the death rate from a first heart attack is two to three times the death rate of patients without the disease. Similarly, patients with…

  • Health

    How gold and other medicinal metals function against rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases

    Gold compounds have been used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases for more than 75 years, but until now, how the metals work has been a…

  • Health

    Protein underlies brain’s response to activity

    Experience helps shape the brain, but how that happens – how synapses are remodeled in response to activity – is one of neurobiology’s biggest mysteries. Though axons and dendrites can…

  • Health

    DNA copier component found to be real drag

    A study in the Feb. 2, 2006 Nature by Antoine van Oijen’s lab sheds light on a longstanding puzzle in DNA replication: how do the enzymes that copy the two…

  • Health

    The ‘widow effect’ is real

    In findings that highlight how health effects can reverberate through a social network, a researcher at HMS and his colleague report that the serious illness of an elderly spouse increases…

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Catwoman’ Halle Berry adds some fire to pudding

    Oscar-winning actress, Bond girl, and Catwoman Halle Berry showed Harvards famously bawdy Hasty Pudding Theatricals a thing or two about bawdy Thursday (Feb. 16), turning up the heat on the roast in which she received Hastys Woman of the Year Award.

  • Campus & Community

    U.S. pushes for regime change in Burma

    A U.S. State Department official reiterated the Bush administrations support for continued economic sanctions on Burma Friday (Feb. 17) as part of a multipronged effort to convince the repressive military regime to embrace democratic reforms.