Featured series 
Year: 2008
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Campus & Community
Susan E. Mango named professor of molecular and cellular biology
Susan E. Mango, whose study of pharynx development in nematode worms has provided biologists with one of their most robust models of organ development, has been named professor of molecular and cellular biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2009. Mango, 46, was previously professor of oncological sciences at the…
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Campus & Community
HSPH honors Bernard Lown
A professorship and scholarship program to honor the career of Bernard Lown in advancing public health is being established at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). School officials made the announcement Sept. 10.
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Campus & Community
GSD names Loeb Fellows for 2008-09
The following mid-career practitioners, leaders in the effort to improve the quality of the built and natural environment, will be in residence at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Ruvkun among Lasker Award winners
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) investigator Gary Ruvkun is one of three co-recipients of the 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
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Campus & Community
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations names associates, fellows
The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has announced its 16 Program Associates and Advanced Research Fellows for the 2008-09 academic year. This year’s class of Program Associates includes scholars, professors, government officials, businesspeople, and journalists from Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.
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Campus & Community
Unarmed robbery reported on Garden Street
On Sept. 14 at approximately 9:15 p.m., a female undergraduate student of Boston University reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that she was the victim of an unarmed robbery while walking down Garden Street. While traveling from Currier House to the Harvard Square MBTA station, the victim was struck from behind by an…
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Campus & Community
Houthakker memorial scheduled for Sept. 25
The University community is invited to attend a memorial service at the Memorial Church for Henry Lee Professor of Economics Emeritus Hendrik Houthakker on Sept. 25. A reception at Loeb House will follow the 2 p.m. service.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Sept. 1, 1922 — The Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary formally begin a closer affiliation under a new agreement approved in the spring.
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Campus & Community
HAA recognizes outstanding alumni
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. This year’s awards ceremony will take place during the Fall HAA Board of Directors meeting on Oct. 16.
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Campus & Community
Going for consecutive Ivy’s
It was the Crimson’s 37-6 blowout of the Yale Bulldogs last year that put an end to Yale’s perfect season and earned Harvard (8-2) its 12th Ivy League Championship, with a 7-0 conference record. And when Harvard takes the home field tomorrow (Sept. 19) in the season opener against Holy Cross, it will be with…
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Campus & Community
Visual history of Fine Arts Library covers decades
In preparation for the Fine Arts Library’s relocation in 2009 during the renovation of the Fogg Art Museum, the library presents “‘An Invaluable Partner …’: Eighty Years of the Fine Arts Library.”
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Campus & Community
Museum of Science hosts Harvard-studded talk on biodiversity
As part of its Celebrity Science Series, the Museum of Science will host “Sustaining Life: A Conversation” on Oct. 3 with Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Eric Chivian, director of…
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Campus & Community
Du Bois Institute announces new fellows
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, has announced the appointment of 18 new institute fellows for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Triple axels to benefit Jimmy Fund
Top world skaters, including 1964 Olympic gold medalists Ludmilla and Oleg Protopopov and national synchronized skating champions the Haydenettes, will take on cancer when they gather for the annual “An Evening with Champions” on Oct. 10-11 (at 7 and 8 p.m., respectively) at Bright Hockey Center. Started in 1970 by former U.S. champion John Misha…
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Campus & Community
Yard takes carnival turn to welcome students
The Tercentenary Theatre was converted into a colorful, albeit slightly damp, minicarnival, Friday (Sept. 12) as Harvard College welcomed its returning and newest undergraduates to campus for an afternoon and evening of food, friends, and fun.
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Campus & Community
Byerly Hall greens itself
Byerly Hall, a handsome slate-roofed building at 8 Garden St., opened in 1932. Its Georgian Revival exterior, exterior clock, and white-trimmed windows complement the stately 19th century ambiance of Radcliffe Yard. But beneath old red brick now beats a 21st century heart, including water and energy systems that meet modern standards for sustainability and efficiency.
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Campus & Community
Opportunities at Berkman Center open house
Members of the University community are invited to attend an open house at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. The center — located at 50 Church St. in Harvard Square — is currently looking to fill research assistant and paid intern positions. Individuals interested in the Internet’s impact…
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Arts & Culture
J.J. Audubon the beginner featured in new book
Although the name John James Audubon is synonymous with beautifully detailed, scientifically accurate drawings of birds, many of his early drawings were destroyed by Audubon himself, but an intriguing selection remains in the collections of Harvard’s Houghton Library and the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).
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Campus & Community
Clark, Hewitt named AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows
Harvard affiliates Sharri Clark and David Hewitt have been named among the newest group of Science & Technology Policy Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The fellows spend a year working in federal agencies or congressional offices learning about science policy while providing valuable science and technology expertise to the…
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Campus & Community
Free admission at Harvard museums
As part of Harvard Museum Community Days, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology will offer free admission on Sept. 21. Mexican folkloric dance company Xuchipilli Danza y Cultura will perform at 1 and 2 p.m. For families with young children, the museum will hold story time at 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. in the…
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Campus & Community
David Korn named University’s vice provost for research
David Korn, a longtime leader in research policy and science administration, will become the University’s vice provost for research, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (Sept. 15). A distinguished pathologist who was dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine for more than a decade, Korn has served since 1997 in senior roles at the…
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Science & Tech
New class of hormone from “healthy fat cells” benefits body metabolism in mice
Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have identified in mice a newly discovered class of hormones — lipokines. In tomorrow’s issue of the journal Cell they report…
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Health
Immune Disease Institute Wins Annenberg Grant to Support International TB and AIDS Care and Research
The Immune Disease Institute has received a two-year, $150,000 award from the Annenberg Foundation to support its ongoing work in international health. The funds will support efforts to combine basic…
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Science & Tech
David Korn named University’s vice provost for research;
David Korn, a former Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine long known as a leader in research policy and science administration, will become the University’s vice provost for research,…
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Health
Harvard Medical School, MGH researcher Gary Ruvkun to share 2008 Lasker Award
Gary Ruvkun, a Harvard Medical School genetics professor in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, is one of three scientists named co-recipients of the 2008…
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Campus & Community
Harvard endowment posts solid positive return
Harvard University’s endowment earned an 8.6 percent return during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, bringing the overall value of the University’s endowment to $36.9 billion. The continued strong returns reinforce the endowment’s ability to provide critical support for Harvard’s academic programs and mission. In fiscal 2008, distributions from the endowment totaled $1.6 billion,…
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Health
Harvard Initiative for Global Health recipient of NIH Global Health Nutrition grant
The Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) has been selected to receive a prestigious $400,000 Framework Programs for Global Health grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center.…
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Health
Cutting in on the AIDS-TB death dance
On a hill in South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal province, near the hall where Nelson Mandela delivered his last speech before prison and the station where Mahatma Gandhi was tossed off a train to begin his life’s work, stands Edendale Hospital.
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Health
Three hours at Nohana
“I just want to see how bad things are in the clinic,” Jennifer Furin said. “It’s a ‘doctor fear’ that someone is bleeding out while I’m standing here eating chocolate.”