Featured series 
Year: 2008
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Campus & Community
Arnold Herbert Colodny
Arnold Herbert Colodny died June 15, 2001, in his 77th year. He was a highly respected and beloved pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital and a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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Health
Prostate cancer treatments are contrasted
Jim Hu and colleagues at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) assessed surgical utilization and complications, lengths of hospital stay, and cancer outcomes in more than 2,700 men who underwent prostate cancer surgery.
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Health
Undergrads volunteer for Nalgene bottle BPA study
For a while last month, whenever Scott Elfenbein ’11 was thirsty he’d take a pull or two from a Nalgene bottle. But Elfenbein was quaffing from Nalgene for science, not for convenience. He was one of about 80 Harvard College students who volunteered for a two-week April study intended to track levels of bisphenol A…
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Campus & Community
THURJ provides forum for students
Spanning topics as diverse as cancerous tumors and the overfishing of grouper in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a new journal aims to highlight the serious scientific research regularly undertaken by Harvard undergraduates.
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Health
New pyramid puts oil, exercise, poultry in their place
The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has relaunched its Web site, The Nutrition Source. One of the highlights of the improved site is a freely downloadable version of the Healthy Eating Pyramid, built by nutrition faculty at the School, which should appeal to educators and health professionals as well…
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Health
New Rx for doctors: Go back to school
This year six doctors are pursuing a one-year master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). The students are all part of the School’s flexible Special Study Program that allows them to design their own curriculum and tailor it to their individual interests.
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Nation & World
Candidates emphasize hot-button issues
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and Todd G. Shields, professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, extensively studied campaign strategy during the 2004 general election, work that may illuminate strategy in the current presidential race.
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Nation & World
Princess Zahra outlines the work of Aga Khan Development Network
Princess Zahra Aga Khan ’94 came home to Harvard this week (May 13) to present a hopeful vision of what education in the developing world can be like.
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Campus & Community
David Rubenstein Fund to support HKS/HBS Joint Degree students
Underscoring its commitment to expand financial aid options for students, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has established the David M. Rubenstein Fund, supporting students enrolled in the Harvard Kennedy School/Harvard Business School (HKS/HBS) Joint Degree Program, thanks to a $5 million gift from David M. Rubenstein.
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Nation & World
Panels contrive job interview for the next president of the U.S.
If the presidency of the United States were a job one applied for like a job in the business world, what questions should be included in the interview? That question was one of the provocative ideas behind the all-day “Conversation on Leadership and the Next Presidency” presented Monday (May 12) at the Charles Hotel by…
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Campus & Community
Unusual year yields positive results for Class of 2012
With a record applicant pool of 27,462, the Class of 2012 will enter Harvard College through the most competitive admissions process in its history.
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Nation & World
Students see AIDS up close
While her classmates in Cambridge were shivering through a New England February, Sandy Bolm was sweltering in the heat of a Botswana summer, staring her future in the face in the labs of the Botswana-Harvard Partnership.
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Nation & World
AIDS: Finding answers
Ampheletse Medupe’s headaches just wouldn’t go away. Living in her small, neat home outside the African nation of Botswana’s capital, the mother of four kept on as best she could until sores broke out on her face.
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Nation & World
AIDS and hope
The man and woman grin down from the large billboard overlooking the road to the hospital in Mochudi, a small town outside Botswana’s capital of Gaborone.
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Campus & Community
Harvard elevates study of technology and society
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, originally established as a research center at Harvard Law School, has been elevated to a University-wide, interfaculty initiative: the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. This transition enhances the University’s capacity for interdisciplinary exploration of issues involving information technology.
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Nation & World
Speakers talk about the ‘renaissance’ taking place in Native nations
Three was the magic number when the founding fathers established the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States government. Today, for thousands of Americans rewriting their own constitutions, there’s a fourth area of power and oversight.
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Nation & World
CES hosts talk on integration of Islam into contemporary France
Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse visited Harvard’s Center for European Studies (CES) last Friday (May 2) to speak about the “realities” of life for the nearly 5 million Muslims who make their home in France.
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Nation & World
Genuine debate illuminates knotty ethical questions
Should students receive financial compensation for high test scores? Would a market for organ donation make saving lives more efficient? Should a nation be permitted to buy the right to pollute? These questions represent just a few of the many ethical issues that Harvard professors Michael Sandel, Amartya Sen, and visiting professor Philippe van Parijs…
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Nation & World
Where science and religion meet, from an Islamic perspective
Where and how science and religion intersect is a debate that dates back centuries; it’s also a regular part of contemporary discourse. The discussion took center stage at the 2007-08 Paul Tillich Lecture on Monday (May 5) in the Science Center’s lecture hall B, where a noted astrophysicist and religious scholar explored the deeper dimensions…
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Campus & Community
Six faculty named Harvard College Professor
Six faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors this spring. They are Virginie Greene, David Laibson, Douglas Melton, Steven Pinker, John Shaw, and James Simpson.
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Nation & World
Joint Center for Housing sees mortgage turmoil hitting rental market
The current mortgage turmoil reaches deep into rental markets. New research on rental housing market dynamics from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies finds that the current housing debacle not only adds to the number of households competing for low-cost rentals but also threatens renters living in foreclosed properties with sudden eviction.
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Nation & World
‘Asia: The Next Ten Years’
Despite the rain and drear outside, inside at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, participants in a two-day conference marking the first 10 years of the Harvard University Asia Center were given a notably hopeful and positive survey of likely developments in Asia over the next 10 years.
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Arts & Culture
The fleeting nature of performance
Christine Whitney Dakin, a New York City contemporary dancer and protégé of Martha Graham, is a Radcliffe Fellow this year — the first dancer ever in the program. She’s busy writing a book, making a film, and preparing a Harvard class for next spring.
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Arts & Culture
Radcliffe Fellow, poet Elizabeth Alexander reads
It was show and tell for poet Elizabeth Alexander this week. The Yale University professor of African American studies, a Radcliffe Fellow this year, used a May 5 reading to show the depth and musicality of her poems, short stories, and penetrating essays — and to tell the story of inspiration’s multiple avenues.
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Arts & Culture
Ghostly Shakespearean fragment comes to life on stage
Monday evening (May 5) at Zero Arrow Theatre, an audience of 120 listened in on a discussion of “Cardenio,” a play premiering Saturday (May 10) at the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.).
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 23, 1910 — The Harvard Corporation formally adopts crimson as Harvard’s official color, based on the tint of several silk scarves used by Harvard rowers in the 1858 Boston City Regatta and preserved in the University Archives.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Memorial Church to host service of remembrance
The Harvard Veterans Alumni Organization is conducting a service of remembrance at the Memorial Church at 9 a.m. on May 26.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service for Jeremy Knowles scheduled for May 30
A memorial service for former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles will be held May 30 at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Church. The Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Knowles died April 3.
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Campus & Community
Wendell Vernon Clausen
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 8, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Clausen integrated exacting philological scholarship with a finely tuned…