Featured series 
Year: 2008
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Nation & World
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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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,…
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‘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…
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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.
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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.