Year: 2008

  • Health

    Restricting insulin doses increases mortality risk

    A new study led by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center has found that women with type 1 diabetes who reported taking less insulin than prescribed had a three-fold increased…

  • Health

    Giurini named President of American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons

    John M. Giurini, Chief of the Division of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School was installed…

  • Science & Tech

    Growing U.S. disparities in health not inevitable

    In the public health field, there is an ongoing debate as to whether improvement in the overall health of the population is linked to increases or decreases in social inequities…

  • Campus & Community

    President Faust appoints task force on Harvard greenhouse gas emissions

    Harvard University President Drew Faust today (Feb. 27) announced the formation of a task force comprised of faculty, students, and administrators charged with examining Harvard’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and recommending a University-wide greenhouse gas reduction goal.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hancock named Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year

    The Artist of the Year award will be presented to Herbie Hancock during the Harvard Cultural Festival on Saturday (March 1) in Sanders Theatre. He will receive the award during the afternoon show, which starts at 3 p.m.

  • Health

    New strategy identified for improving effectiveness of cancer therapies

    Manipulating levels of nitric oxide, a gas involved in many biological processes, may improve the disorganized network of blood vessels supplying tumors, potentially improving the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy. …

  • Health

    Joint Harvard-Brazil program fights entrenched diseases

    Recently (Jan. 6-21), 15 Harvard and 16 Brazilian students participated in an intensive experience: the first Harvard-Brazil Collaborative Course on Infectious Diseases. The course, which was offered by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo Medical School (FCMSCSP) with the support of the Harvard University Brazil…

  • Arts & Culture

    E-mail collaboration yields chamber opera

    Critics say that composer Elena Ruehr – a Radcliffe Fellow this year – makes music that is challenging, natural, intelligent, and socially aware. She brought all of these qualities to a Feb. 13 presentation on the creative process. “From Novel to Opera,” spliced with musical samples and punctuated by laughter, was a low-key discourse on…

  • Arts & Culture

    Ancient text has long and dangerous reach

    Ask a well-read individual to list the most dangerous books in history, and a few familiar titles would most likely make the cut: Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” Marx and Engels’ “The Communist Manifesto,” Chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book.”

  • Campus & Community

    Man of Year Walken tours the Yard

    Actor Chistopher Walken walked the walk through Harvard Yard Friday afternoon (Feb. 15), touring campus with a guide from Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

  • Arts & Culture

    Man of The Year is man of few words

    Actor, dancer, writer, and Academy Award winner Christopher Walken — best known for his big-screen roles as edgy villains — went to pot on Friday (Feb. 15), Hasty Pudding-style.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    February 1950 — A capacity Sanders Theatre crowd hears Eleanor Roosevelt discuss “The World Struggle for Human Rights,” as guest of Harvard’s United Nations Council. She urges the U.S. to ratify the U.N. Covenant of Human Rights, the legal underpinning to the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    E.J. Corey, Harvard affiliates honored with AAP book award

    The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently selected “Molecules and Medicine” — co-authored by Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus E.J. Corey and postdoctoral fellows in chemistry and chemical biology Barbara Czako and Laszlo Kurti — as the recipient of its 2007 award for best book published…

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    Faculty Council’s seventh meeting

  • Campus & Community

    Flu shots still available at HUHS

    With the flu season currently at its peak (and the season often lasting through April), there is still plenty of time and good reason to get immunized if you have not already. Following immunization, it takes approximately 10 days to develop antibodies and be protected.

  • Campus & Community

    George Francis Carrier

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 12, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late George Francis Carrier, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Carrier was one of the world’s leading applied mathematicians.

  • Campus & Community

    Everett honored with 2008 Vosgerchian Teaching Award

    Thomas G. Everett, director of bands at Harvard University and jazz adviser to the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA), has been named the recipient of the 2008 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. The award, which offers an honorarium of $10,000 to a nationally recognized educator, is administered by the OfA.

  • Campus & Community

    Gift to establish Sheikh Suhaim Bin Hamad Al Thani Fellowship at HKS

    The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has announced a $2 million gift establishing the Sheikh Suhaim Bin Hamad Al Thani Fellowship Fund.

  • Campus & Community

    Sports in brief

    Runners, throwers, jumpers take second, third at HYP meet, Men’s squash takes fourth at CSA National Team Championships, Operation playoffs: Mission getting accomplished for Crimson hockey

  • Campus & Community

    Spring auction to benefit local nonprofits

    The Memorial Church will hold its third annual charity auction to benefit the grants committee on April 17. The event will be held at the Sheraton Commander Hotel (across from the Cambridge Common) beginning at 6:30 p.m.

  • Campus & Community

    Papers, workshops, tours light up energy meeting

    Harvard is already famous for its experts in languages, law, medicine, government, and literature. Now you can add heating and cooling.

  • Campus & Community

    Daffodil orders being taken until Feb. 29

    The first flower of spring, the daffodil has long been a symbol of hope and renewal. It has also become a powerful tool in the American Cancer Society’s efforts to treat patients.

  • Arts & Culture

    HCL maps set in stone

    Three years ago, Big Dig officials approached David Cobb and his staff in the Harvard Map Collection with a request: Help them design a map for the North End parks that would illustrate how Boston had changed in the centuries since its founding. When the parks officially opened in November 2007, not one but seven…

  • Campus & Community

    HSPH offers scholarship opportunity

    The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently announced a new scholarship opportunity for students and scholars from Southeast and East-Central Europe.

  • Arts & Culture

    HUL launches extensive ‘Contagion’ collection

    The Harvard University Library (HUL) Open Collections Program recently launched http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion. Created with support from Arcadia, the new collection, titled “Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics,” brings carefully selected historical materials from Harvard’s renowned libraries, special collections, and archives to Internet users everywhere.

  • Science & Tech

    Finding ingenious design in nature

    “This,” Joanna Aizenberg says slyly, picking up a latticed tube from her desk in Pierce Hall, “is a glass house you can throw stones at.” The tube, tapered to a close at one end and festooned with a cluster of curious white fibers at the tip, resembles an upturned dog’s tail. It is, in fact,…

  • Health

    ‘Attentional collapse’ causes an inability to imagine future satisfaction

    Researchers have identified a key reason why people make mistakes when they try to predict what they will like. When predicting how much they will enjoy a future experience, people tend to compare it to its alternatives — that is, to the experiences they had before, might have later, or could be having in the…

  • Health

    From adult to embryonic stem cell

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have taken a major step toward eventually being able to reprogram adult cells to an embryonic stem cell-like state without the use of viruses or cancer-causing genes.

  • Health

    Homing in on features of ‘humaniqueness’

    Shedding new light on the cognitive rift between humans and animals, a Harvard University scientist has synthesized four key differences in human and animal cognition into a hypothesis on what exactly differentiates human and animal thought.